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Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2016 Sep 22
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
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020031Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
33
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +020037Ukrainian translations (Anatolii Sakhnik, 2016 Sep 15)
38
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +020039Netbeans test fails with Python 3. (jonathon, 2016 Sep 13, #1070)
40
41Revert 7.4.990? (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 16)
42
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +020043Update for ratpoison (Magnus Woldrich, 2016 Sep 15)
44
45Crash when editing file with only encryption header. (igor2x, 2016 Sep 18,
46#1096) Patch by Christian, Sep 22.
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48Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
49doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
50Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
51Could store in logfile to be able to analyise it with an external command.
52E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
53
54Patch for typos. (Matthew Brener, 2016 Sep 16, #1088)
55
Bram Moolenaarbb76f242016-09-12 14:24:39 +020056After 8.0 is released:
57- Drop support for older MS-Windows systems, before XP.
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +020058 Patch from Ken Takata, updated 2016 Sep 12.
Bram Moolenaarbb76f242016-09-12 14:24:39 +020059
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010060+channel:
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +020061- channel_wait() may return an error while there is still something to read.
Bram Moolenaarbb76f242016-09-12 14:24:39 +020062 Perhaps try to read once more?
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +020063 Possibly reproduced by Santiago Alejandro Agüero, 2016 Sep 12, 13.
64 Apparently select() returns an error while reading could work.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +020065- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
Bram Moolenaarabd468e2016-09-08 22:22:43 +020066- Add 'cwd' argument to start_job(): directory to change to in the child.
67 check for valid directory before forking.
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +020068- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +020069- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +010070- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
71 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010072 minute. Option to set the droptime.
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +020073- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010074- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010075- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
76 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
77 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010078- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
79 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +010080- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal.
81 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +010082
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010083Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +020084- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
85 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
86 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
87 LC_CTYPE
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +020088- The regexp engines are not reentrant, causing havoc when interrupted by a
89 remote expression or something else. Move global variables onto the stack
90 or into an allocated struct.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010091- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
92 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010093- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
94 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010095- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020096- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
97 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010098- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010099- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
100 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100101- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100102 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200103- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
104- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
105 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200106- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +0200107- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100108- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
109 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200110- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
111 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
112 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +0200113 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
114 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100115- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
116- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100117- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100118- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
119 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
120 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
121 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100122- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
123 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200124- The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100125 matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar7e1479b2016-09-11 15:07:27 +0200126 had_endbrace[] is set but not initialized or used.
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200127
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200128Strang syntax highlighting problem. (Brett Stahlman, 2016 Sep 17)
129
130Patch to convert test_command_count into new style. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016
131Sep 17)
132
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200133json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200134What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100135
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200136Should json_encode()/json_decode() restrict recursiveness?
137Or avoid recursiveness.
138
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200139Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
140
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200141Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
142about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200143Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
144
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200145Javascript indent wrong after /* in single quoted string:
146 var SRC = 'src/*.js';
147 function log(tag) {
148 a = b;
149 }
150
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200151Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
152#1053) With patch, does it work?
153
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200154Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
155Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100156
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200157Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200158E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200159
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200160min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
161contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
162
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200163Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
164
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200165Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
166
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200167sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
1684#1038)
169
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200170cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
171
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200172Patch to change order of compiler flags. (Yousong Zhou, 2016 Sep 19, #1100)
173
174Patch for :pyx, run python commands depending on the supported version.
175(Marc Weber, update from Ken Takata, 2016 Sep 19)
176
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200177When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
178synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
179
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200180Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
181Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200182
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200183Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
184(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
185
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200186ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
187Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200188
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100189Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
190
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200191Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
192Jul 25, #948)
193
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200194'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
195
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200196Patch to add context information to quickfix/location list. (Yegappan
197Lakshmanan, 2016 Aug 25)
198
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200199MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
200Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200201
202Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
203Also for ":@.".
204
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200205Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
206
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200207Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
208times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
209
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200210This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
211(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
212
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200213Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
214
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200215Patch to add separate highlighting for quickfix current line.
216(anishsane, 2016 Sep 16, #1080)
217
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200218Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
219
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200220Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
221
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200222Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
223
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200224Patch for restoring wide characters in the console buffer.
225(Ken Takata, 2016 Jun 7)
226
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200227Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
228(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
229Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94
230Update 2016 Aug 10.
231
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100232We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
233the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
234
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200235Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
236
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100237Patch for Python: #622. (Roland Puntaier, 2016 Feb 2)
238What does it change?
239
Bram Moolenaar89bcfda2016-08-30 23:26:57 +0200240Patch to make gd and gD work better for non-K&R code and with comments.
241(Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Aug 29)
242
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200243When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
244emoji_width table has only one entry.
245
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100246It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
247Reject the value? #710.
248
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200249Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
250set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
251
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200252Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
2532013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
254Update mentioned by Christian, 2016 Apr 25.
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200255Update from Ken Takata, 2016 Jul 17.
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200256
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +0200257Patch to improve cscope. (Adrian Kocis, #843)
258
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200259Patch for groovy multi-line comment highlighting. (Justin M. Keyes, 2016 May
26020 #644)
261
262When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
263Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
264
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200265Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200266Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858
267
268Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200269
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200270Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
271No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200272
273Patch to make finding duplicate tags much faster, using a hashtab. (James
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200274McCoy, 2016 Sept 14, #1046) Should work now.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200275>
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200276Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
277(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100278
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100279Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
280https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
281Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
282
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100283Patch to add setbufline(). (email from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, patch by Ozaki
284Kiichi, 2016 Feb 28)
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100285Update Mar 8: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100286Update Mar 13: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100287
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100288Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
289interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
290Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
291interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
292result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200293
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100294Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
295Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
296>
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200297Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100298work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200299
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100300Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
301
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200302Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
303
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200304Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
305Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
306
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200307When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
308Apr 17) #762
309
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200310exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
311Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
312
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100313Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
314'iskeyword' for syntax.
315
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100316Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
317(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
318
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100319Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
320
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200321When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
322maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200323Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200324
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100325Patch to change GUI behavior: instead of changing the window size change the
326lines/columns when menu/toolbar/etc. is added/removed. (Ychin, 2016 Mar 20,
327#703)
328
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100329Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
330It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
331Add configure check?
332Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
333Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
334Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
335
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200336Patch to test popupmenu. Fails, possibly due to a bug.
337(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 23)
338
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200339Patch to introduce 'cmdencoding'. (Ken Takata, Aug 18?)
340Better help Aug 19.
341Problem: applies to too many commands, such as :cbuffer.
Bram Moolenaarabd468e2016-09-08 22:22:43 +0200342Updated patch with three options, 2016 Sep 8.
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200343 Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale,
344 the output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei
345 Wu) Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
346
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200347Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
348Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
349Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
350
351Patch to add CTRL-N / CTRL-P while searching. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Aug
3523) Problem: two matches in one line and using CTRL-P does not move back.
353
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100354Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
355(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
356
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100357":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
358directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
359
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02003607 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
361 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
362 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
363 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200364Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jun 10, #859
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200365
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200366If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
3672016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200368
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100369Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
370(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
371
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100372Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200373Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100374
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100375Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
376Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
377
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200378Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
379
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200380When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
381restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
382Do not trigger the event?
383
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200384Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
385changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
386and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100387Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
388Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
3896, 2nd message)
390Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100391
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100392Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
393(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
394
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100395Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
396Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
397https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
398
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100399Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
400With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
401
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200402Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100403
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100404Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
405
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100406Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100407Only remembers one error.
408
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200409Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
410
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200411Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
412
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200413Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
414(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200415
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100416Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
417github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100418 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100419Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100420
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100421When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
422triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
423set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100424
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200425Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200426
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100427Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100428comparing individual items.
429Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
430Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
431Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
432equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
433
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100434Plugin to use Vim in MANPAGER. Konfekt, PR #491
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100435
436Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
437
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100438MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
439wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
440
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100441Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
442specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
443
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100444Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
445(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
446
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200447Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200448inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200449
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100450Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
451'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster?
452
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200453C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
454and also line continuation after #include.
455I can't recommend it though.
456
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100457Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
458(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
459
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100460Need a Vim equivalent of Python's None and a way to test for it.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100461Use v:none. var == v:none
462
463Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
46424) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200465Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100466
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100467To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
468library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
469
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100470When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
471is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
472
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100473Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
47430)
475
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200476MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
477(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
478
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100479Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
480program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
481implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
482Olaf Dabrunz is working on this.
483
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200484The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
48524): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100486
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200487":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
488effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
489
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200490":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
4919)
492
493The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
494wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
495
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200496Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200497Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200498
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100499When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
500the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
501
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200502Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
503Sep 10)
504
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100505Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
506Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
507Problem mentioned by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 4.
508
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200509Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200510slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
511inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
512
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200513ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
5142014 Sep 11)
515
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200516Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
517(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
518
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200519When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
520'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
521
522Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200523(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100524Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
525- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
526 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
527 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
528- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
529 covered by the above change.
530So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +0100531same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200532Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200533
534Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
535Work in progress.
536
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100537Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
538when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
539
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200540Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
541Is this right?
542
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200543Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
544(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
545Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
546
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200547Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
548Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100549
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100550Patch to add wordcount(). Same info as g CTRL-G. (Christian Brabandt, 2015
551Nov 17)
552
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200553Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
554Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
555
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200556Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
557
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100558Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
559Issue #459.
560
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100561When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
562filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
563initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
564
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100565Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
566
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200567Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
568OK to not block marks?
569
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100570Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
571
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100572Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
573
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100574When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
575Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
576
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200577When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
578(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
579
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200580Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200581
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100582Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
583(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
584
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200585When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
586any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
587
588Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200589
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100590Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100591
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100592Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
5932015 Feb 6.
594
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100595Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
596Is this a good solution?
597
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200598Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
599(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
600
601Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
602
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100603Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
604Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
605was already defined.
606(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
607
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200608Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
609
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200610Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100611Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100612Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200613Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100614
615Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200616
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200617Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
618(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
619
620Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
621
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100622Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
623(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
624
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200625Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200626Update 2016 Jun 10, # 857
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200627
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100628Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
629change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
630them: ":repeats".
631
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100632Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
633
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100634When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
635these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
636window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
637
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100638Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
639should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
640history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
641Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
642
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200643"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
644Jun 8)
645
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100646Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
647insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
648
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200649Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
650
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100651No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
652
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200653Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
654(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
655Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
656arguments.
657
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100658Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
659
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200660Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100661
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200662Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
6630x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
664New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
665compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
666
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200667xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
668buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
669Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100670Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200671Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100672Also see issue #609.
673We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100674
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200675Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
676right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200677its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200678
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100679Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
680What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
681
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100682Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
683
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100684This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
685 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
686This neither: (ZyX)
687 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
688
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200689'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
690Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
691from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100692
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200693Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
6942014 Jun 8)
695
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100696Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100697Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100698Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
699Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
700User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100701- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
702 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
703 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100704- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
705- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
706 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
707 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
708 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
709 on vim.org.
710- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
711 there. Can manually update when really needed.
712- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
713- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
714- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
715- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
716Implementation:
717- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
718 plugin separate.
719- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
720 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
721 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
722- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
723 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
724- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
725 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
726 installing.
727Out of scope:
728- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
729- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
730 useful).
731
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200732Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
733normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100734
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200735CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
736when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
737
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200738When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
739menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
740
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200741Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
742(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
743
744":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
745various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100746
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200747Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200748(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
749
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200750VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
751instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
752
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100753Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200754Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100755
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200756Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200757command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100758
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100759Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
760
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100761Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
762highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100763
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200764The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
765For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
766
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100767Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200768possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100769
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100770Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100771It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100772
773Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200774
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200775Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
776
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100777Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
778
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200779With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
7802013 Sep 5)
781
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100782Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100783Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100784
785Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
7863. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
787
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200788/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
789
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01007907 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
791 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
792 "lucida_console:h8").
793Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
794
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200795:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
796
797Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200798With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200799
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200800Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
801
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200802Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
803
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100804When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
805(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
806
807Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
808Dec 13.
809
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100810Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
811buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
812
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200813GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
814(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
815
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100816Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
817registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
818
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200819Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
820
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200821The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
822(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
823Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
824
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200825The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
826- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
827- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
828
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100829Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
830Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
831reliably?
832
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200833Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
834That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
835Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
83617)
837Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200838Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200839
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100840Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
841(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
842
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100843Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
844(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
845
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02008468 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
847 defined.
848Issue 28.
849
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200850Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
8512013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100852
853Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
854
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200855Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
8565)
857
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200858Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
859carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
860
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200861Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
862highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
863
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100864Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200865
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200866Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200867May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
868May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200869May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200870
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200871Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020087228) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200873
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200874Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
875optional. (2013 Jul 12)
876
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200877Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
878
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100879Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200880- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100881- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
882- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
883 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
884- make it possible to do a silent install, see
885 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
886 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
887- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
888- The one on Issue 279.
889Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
890How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
891
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100892Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
893
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100894Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100895
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200896- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
897 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
898Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200899
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200900Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200901
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200902In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
903process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
904a reboot.
905
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100906Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
907cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
908
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100909patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
910
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100911Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
912I can't reproduce it.
913
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100914Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
915not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100916
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200917Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
918Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
919
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200920Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
921Or use expand('<sid>')?
922
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100923Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
924
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100925Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100926
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200927Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
928
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100929Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
930
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100931b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
9327)
933
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200934Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
935compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
936
937Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
938Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
939vim.bindeval().
940
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200941Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
9422012 Aug 4)
943
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100944Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
945(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
946
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100947Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
948But use Gnome instead of GTK?
949
950Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
951Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
952Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200953
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200954Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
955loading all files.
956
957Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
958line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
959after starting up?
960
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02009618 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
962 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
963
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200964MS-Windows resizing problems:
965- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
966 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
967- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
968 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
969 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100970
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200971'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200972
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200973Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200974of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
975
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200976Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
977
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100978Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200979Also question if examples are correct.
980
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200981The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
982Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
983But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200984
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200985Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
986Aug 16)
987
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100988When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
989is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
990
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200991xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
992enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
993
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100994URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100995- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100996- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
997 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
998
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200999Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1000(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1001Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1002
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001003Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001004New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001005
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001006When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1007for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1008Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001009
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001010Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1011
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001012Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
101324)
1014
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001015Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1016
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001017Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1018
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001019Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1020Apr 18)
1021
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001022Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1023And one for gui_x11.txt.
1024
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001025":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1026finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1027Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1028
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001029Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1030
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001031Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1032
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001033Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1034they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1035
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001036Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1037
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001038Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1039Nov 20)
1040
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001041Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001042Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001043
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001044`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001045(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1046
1047Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1048
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001049BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1050Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1051
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001052Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1053Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1054
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001055Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1056
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001057Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
1058
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001059On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
10602012 Jun 19)
1061
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001062'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1063'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1064Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001065Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001066
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001067With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1068(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1069need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1070
1071Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1072only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
107321, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1074
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001075The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1076support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1077
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001078'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1079highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1080
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001081Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1082New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1083
1084Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1085Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1086
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001087Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1088Jan 19)
1089
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001090Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1091discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1092meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001093
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001094"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001095Oct 26)
1096
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001097Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1098
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001099With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1100register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001101
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001102Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1103
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001104When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1105(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1106
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001107Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
1108Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
1109
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001110Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
1111doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
1112Jun 17)
1113
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001114When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1115then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1116from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1117
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001118Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1119":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
112015)
1121
1122Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1123
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001124BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1125cleared. See test64.
1126
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001127Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
1128
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001129Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001130effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001131Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1132
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001133On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
113464 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1135right type.
1136
1137string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1138(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1139
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001140Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
1141
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001142When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1143(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001144When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1145following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1146(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001147
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001148When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1149doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1150
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001151Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1152
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020011537 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
1154Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
1155
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001156maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1157mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1158
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001159Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1160(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1161
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001162When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1163indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1164the help file.
1165
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001166After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1167Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1168
1169Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1170
1171"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1172
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001173Patch to add TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001174May 24) Update May 26.
1175
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001176Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1177
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001178Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001179
1180Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
11812010 Dec 18)
1182
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001183With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1184number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1185Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1186
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001187Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1188Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1189
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020011908 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1191Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1192
11938 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
1194 after typing something.
1195Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
1196function that resets did_cursorhold.
1197Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
1198
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001199Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1200one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1201the match scrolls into view.
1202
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020012037 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1204Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1205Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1206
12079 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1208 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1209Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1210
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001211Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1212Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1213
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001214In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1215or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1216sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1217
1218GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1219doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1220
1221GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1222
1223Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1224Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1225
1226Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1227
12287.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1229there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1230do?
1231
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001232Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
123322)
1234
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001235New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1236- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001237- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001238 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1239
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001240"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
12412011 Feb 27)
1242
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001243Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1244^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1245
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001246'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
1247way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
1248
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001249When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1250exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
12519) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1252
1253g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1254the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1255
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001256Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1257crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1258
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001259Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1260number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1261
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001262Regexp engine performance:
1263- Profiling:
1264 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1265 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1266 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1267 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1268 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1269 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1270- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1271- Performance tests:
1272 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1273 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1274 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1275 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1276 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1277 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1278 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1279 'hlsearch'.
1280 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1281 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1282 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1283 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1284
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001285Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1286names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1287Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1288the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1289
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001290Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1291Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1292
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001293'beval' option should be global-local.
1294
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001295Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001296
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001297setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001298
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020012997 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1300 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1301 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1302
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001303With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
13042010 Oct 24)
1305
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001306Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1307Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1308
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001309Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1310
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001311When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1312Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1313
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001314":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1315
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001316'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1317
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001318C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1319checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1320Issue 46.
1321
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001322Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1323
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001324Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1325gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1326
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001327":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1328accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1329
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001330Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1331setwinvar().
1332
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001333Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1334
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001335When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1336(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1337
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001338When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1339instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1340
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001341Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1342Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1343Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001344
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001345Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1346back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1347
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001348Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001349Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1350
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001351CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1352the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1353FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1354
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001355Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1356Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1357
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001358Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1359Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1360
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001361I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1362Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1363an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001364
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001365Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1366
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001367Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1368non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001369
1370iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1371Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1372or replace with a character and continue?
1373
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001374Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1375Requires configure check for localtime().
1376Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1377
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001378Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1379Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1380
1381Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001383Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1384Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1385path.
1386
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001387Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001388Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001389
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001390'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1391
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001392":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1393like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1394
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001395Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1396https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001397
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001398Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
13992010 Nov 5)
1400
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001401Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001402Jan 7)
1403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001404Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1405Only with "vim -u NONE".
1406
1407Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1408
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001409With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1410entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1411Feb 12)
1412
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001413Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1414characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001416Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1417
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001418Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1419 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1420
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001421Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1422
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001423When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1424Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001426When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1427not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1428string value.
1429
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001430Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1431
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001432For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001433line argument -noregister.
1434
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001435When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1436missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1437
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001438When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1439doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001440
1441Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1442(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1443Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1444There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1445Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1446
1447":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1448highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1449to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1450
1451Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1452Probably needs a bit of work.
1453
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001454Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1455Added test, updates, June 23.
1456Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1457With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1458Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1459
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001460List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001461Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1462
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001463Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001465Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1466
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001467Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1468Sep 1)
1469
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001470Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1471
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001472Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1473on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1474
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001475Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
14762009 Jul 18)
1477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001478Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1479window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1480Needs more work.
1481
1482Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1483
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001484When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1485few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1486
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001487'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001488(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1489
1490Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1491J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1492
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001493When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1494for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1495
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001496Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1497
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001498Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001500When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1501
1502":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1503because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1504ex_docmd.c.
1505
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001506Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001507Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1508
1509string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1510for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1511
1512Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1513
1514'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
151520)
1516
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001517Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
15182009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1519
1520Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1521
1522Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1523SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1524
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001525When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1526indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1527(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1528
1529Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1530are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1531Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1532Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1533that doesn't have a window.
1534
1535When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1536doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1537
1538getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1539displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1540
1541":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1542
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001543There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1544was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1545perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1546
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001547Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1548
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001549Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1550file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1551system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1552
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001553Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1554command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1555
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001556Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1557does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1558
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001559opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1560height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001561very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001563Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1564(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1565
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001566Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001567(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1568
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001569Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1570char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1571
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001572Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1573Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1574
1575This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1576
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001577A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001578
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001579Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1580messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1581es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
15822009 Jan 26)
1583
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001584When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001585in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1586Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001588Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1589a modeline.
1590
1591Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1592Sergey Khorev)
1593
1594Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1595part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001596
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001597netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1598number to be below last visible line.
1599
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001600After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1601correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1602
1603Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1604(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1605
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001606shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001607'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1608Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1609unix-like shell?
1610
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001611Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1612register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1613(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1614
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001615Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1616Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1617
1618Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1619make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1620
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001621When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1622still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1623
1624"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1625(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1626
1627Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1628
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001629Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1630that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1631ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1632Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1633
1634Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001635Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001636
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001637MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1638doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1639probably causes this.
1640
1641'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020016422009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001643
1644Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1645 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1646 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1647(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1648
1649Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1650":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1651option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1652is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001653
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001654":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1655first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001656Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001657
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001658Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1659laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1660Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001661
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001662Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1663anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1664
1665On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1666doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1667Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1668Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1669
1670":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1671
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001672When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1673'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1674fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1675the buffer to be unmodified.
1676Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1677another look at it.
1678
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001679c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1680(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1681
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001682You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1683error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1684Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1685at the other match for 0xBF.
1686
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001687When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1688argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1689
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001690Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1691backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1692
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001693When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1694line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1695
1696Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1697position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1698
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001699After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1700(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001701command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001702
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001703":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1704Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1705
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001706Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1707Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1708
1709When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1710either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1711put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001713Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1714Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1715Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1716Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1717(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001719Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1720
1721ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001722
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001723Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1724(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1725escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1726an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001727This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1728July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001729Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1730work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1731
1732When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
173331)
1734
1735Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1736work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1737Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001738
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001739Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
1740multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
1741(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
1742
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001743Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
17442008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001745Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001746
1747Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1748Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1749'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001751Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1752Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1753
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001754Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1755Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1756
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020017578 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1758 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1759 several).
1760 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1761 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1762 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1763Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001765Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001767The utf class table is missing some entries:
1768 0x2212, minus sign
1769 0x2217, star
1770 0x2500, bar
1771 0x26ab, circle
1772
1773Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1774line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1775
1776GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1777Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1778
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001779Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1780try the Cocoa version.
1781
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001782Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1783changed or the window is resized.
1784
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001785GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1786the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1787
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001788Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1789Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001790
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001791Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
17921) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1793
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001794C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1795with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1796Try to reproduce at work.
1797
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001798Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1799Is there a way to list all the files first?
1800
1801When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1802result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
180316)
1804
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001805Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1806(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1807
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001808Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1809Await response to question to make the register writable.
1810
1811Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
18121)
1813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001814In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1815each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1816
1817try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1818
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001819try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1820
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001821":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1822Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1823
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001824Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001826Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1827Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1828
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001829Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1830Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1831Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001832
1833C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1834(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1835
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001836When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1837and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1838
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001839Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1840 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1841
1842New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1843
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001844":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1845a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1846
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001847'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1848Likonen, March 19)
1849
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001850Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1851other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1852
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001853The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1854appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1855matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1856
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001857When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1858character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1859'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1860(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1861
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001862Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1863Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001864
1865More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1866
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001867Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1868http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1869
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001870Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1871back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1872Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001873
1874Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1875No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1876
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001877Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1878terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001879
1880Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1881
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001882Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1883but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1884that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001885
1886When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1887
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001888Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1889Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1890
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001891Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1892popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1893size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1894This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1895
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001896Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1897a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1898isn't right?
1899
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001900When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1901it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1902
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001903Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1904then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1905files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001906Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1907indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1908":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001909in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1910quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001911Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001912
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001913When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1914parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1915neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1916particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1917Jun 3)
1918However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1919the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001920
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001921A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1922Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1923
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001924Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1925Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001927Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1928switch list is noticed:
1929 switch (i)
1930 {
1931 case 1:
1932 foobar:
1933 }
1934
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001935Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001937Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1938with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1939go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1940moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1941
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001942Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
194364-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1944
1945Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1946Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1947Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1948argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1949(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1950
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001951Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1952(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1953
1954Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1955makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1956.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1957 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1958
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001959Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
19602007 Feb 8)
1961
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001962Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1963set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001964
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001965Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1966
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001967Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1968Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1969New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1970patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1971
1972Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1973Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001975Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1976
1977Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
19782007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001979Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001980
1981Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001982label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1983
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001984Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1985with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1986Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001987
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001988Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1989
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001990Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1991Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1992only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1993
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001994Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1995Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001996Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001997properly?
1998
1999Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
20002007 Jun 21)
2001
2002When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2003Jun 18)
2004
2005If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2006
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002007Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2008windows. (Adam George)
2009
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002010F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2011modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2012K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002013
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002014UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
2015to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
2016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002017In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2018the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002020C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002022":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2023
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002024When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002025error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002026
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002027Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2028use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2029
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002030Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2031if_ruby.c.
2032
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002033":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2034
2035The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2036it in keep_msg?
2037
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002038Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002039error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002040name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2041
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002042Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2043longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002044
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002045Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2046Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2047Also for ":w" without a file name.
2048The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002049
2050"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2051Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2052
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002053VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2054directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2055(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2056
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002057VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2058
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002059input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2060name?
2061
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002062Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2063
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002064When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2065(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2066Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2067will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2068
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002069gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2070This also fails with --remote.
2071
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002072When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
20732008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2074all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2075
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002076aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2077
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002078When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2079(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2080
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002081Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2082the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2083
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002084GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2085
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002086Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2087superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2088
2089Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2090character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2091
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002092Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2093Jun 5)
2094
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002095Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
20962008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2097Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2098
2099In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2100but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2101Jul 22)
2102
2103There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2104
2105Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2106":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2107somehow? Or use a new function.
2108
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002109Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2110
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002111Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2112moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2113that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2114
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002115The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2116
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002117When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002118cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2119the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2120
2121Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
2122has been created.
2123
2124Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
2125shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
2126fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
2127background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
2128A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002129
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002130These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2131 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2132 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2133 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2134
2135Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2136partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2137
2138In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2139buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2140reload it then?
2141
2142New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
2143previous version.
2144
2145For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2146
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002147Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2148only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2149
2150Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2151tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2152doesn't contain other directories.
2153
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002154Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2155Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2156
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002157Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2158 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2159 set background=dark
2160This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2161color is, not reset it.
2162
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002163Linux distributions:
2164- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2165 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2166 xfree-xterm".
2167- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2168
2169Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2170start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2171show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2172middle?
2173
2174When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002175(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002176connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
2177dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
2178
2179Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2180
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002181When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2182current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2183the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2184
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002185When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2186Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2187
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002188Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2189 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2190 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2191 - getting colors in xterm
2192 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2193
2194Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2195Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2196
2197Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2198
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002199A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2200Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2201
2202Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2203Dara, 2006 June 21)
2204
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002205Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2206number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002208After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2209the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2210
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002211Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002212
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002213Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
2214copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
2215error and stop using the connection to the server.
2216
2217Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2218Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2219
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002220Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010022212008 Sep 29)
2222
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002223In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2224check the result of has("patch13").
2225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2227restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2228
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002229Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2230and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2231
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002232Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2233put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2234
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002235Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2236resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2237
2238In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2239can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2240
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002241GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2242maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2243doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002244Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2245visible.
2246
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002247When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2248differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002249
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002250The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2251be only one.
2252
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002253"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
2254script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
2255
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002256It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
2257the function name before resolving it to a number?
2258 let d = {}
2259 fun! d.foo()
2260 echo "here"
2261 endfun
2262 call d.foo(9)
2263
2264Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
2265only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002266Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
2267used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
2268
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002269Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002270"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2271name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2272Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002273
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002274printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
2275perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
2276
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002277Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2278(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2279
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002280Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2281as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2282
2283Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2284Jan 1)
2285
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002286Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
228723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002288
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002289":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2290tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2291Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002292
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002293When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2294text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2295latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2296
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002297Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2298
2299Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2300no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2301
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002302In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2303VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
23042007 Oct 16)
2305
2306TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2307Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2308
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002309Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002311When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2312typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2313Sep 3, 11)
2314
2315When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2316respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2317the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2318what happens for the GUI.
2319
2320X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2321pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2322clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2323Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2324Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2325clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2328this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2329
2330When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2331Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2332restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2333
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002334Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
23352010 Jun 30)
2336
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002337Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2338'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2339(Kartik Agaram)
2340
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002341
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002342Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002343- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2344 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2345- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2346 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2347 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2348- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2349 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2350 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002351- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2352- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002353
2354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002355More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002356- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2357 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002358- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2359- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2360 21)
2361- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2362 patch May 10)
2363- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2364 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2365- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2366 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2367- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2368- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2369- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2370 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2371 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002372- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002373- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2374 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2375- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2376 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2377- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2378 21)
2379- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2380 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2381- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2382 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2384 Sep 13)
2385- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002386 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002387- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2388 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2389 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2390 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2391 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002392- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002393
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002394Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000023959 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2396 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2397 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2398 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2399 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2400 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2401 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2402 (Alan Schmitt)
2403 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002404 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2405 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000024069 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002407 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000024088 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024098 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002410 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024117 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2412 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2413 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024148 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002415 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020024167 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002417 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2418- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2419 for multi-byte characters.
2420- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2421- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2422 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2423 been given values.
2424 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
24258 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002426 with an ESC sequence.
2427 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2428 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2429 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024307 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2431 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2432- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2433 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2434 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
24358 Add functions:
2436 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2437 Update 2004 Sep 10
2438 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2439 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002440 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002441 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2442 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2443 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2444 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2445 (2003 May 13)
2446 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2447 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002448 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2449 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002450 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2451 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2452 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024537 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2454 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2455- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2456 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
24577 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2458 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000024598 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2460 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024617 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
24628 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2463 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
24647 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2465 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024667 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2467- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2468 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2469 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002470- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2471 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2472- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2473
2474
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002475Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002476- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2477 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024788 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2479 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2480 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2481 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2482 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2483 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024848 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2485 make Vim exit.
24867 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2487 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2488 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
24898 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2490 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2491 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
24926 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2493 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2494 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
24958 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2496 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2497 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2498 names in one buffer???
2499 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2500 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2501 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
25027 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2503 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2504 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002505 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2506 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025077 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2508 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
25097 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
25107 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
25117 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2512 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
25137 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2514 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2515 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2516 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
25177 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
25187 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
25197 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2520 to the match with the tag? Option?
25217 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
25227 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2523 (Sayre).
25247 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2525 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025267 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2527 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2528 match. Nvi can do it too.
25297 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2530 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2531 line 1\ line 2\\
2532 line 2\ line 3\\
2533 . line4/
25346 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2535 the way the shell is started?
25366 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2537 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2538
2539
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002540GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025419 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025428 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2543 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2544 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000025458 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2546 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2547 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025489 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2549 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2550 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2551 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002552- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2553 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2554 blocked for now.
2555
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002556
2557Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002558- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2559 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025608 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2561 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
25628 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2563 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2564 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
25658 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2566 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025676 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2568 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025698 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2570 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2571 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025727 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2573 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2574 to use an opaque background in most places?
25758 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2576 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2577 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025787 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2579 2004 May 9)
25808 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2581 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2582 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2583 MS-Windows 98?
2584 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2585 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2586 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2587 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025888 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2589 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2590 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2591 doesn't work properly.
25928 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2593 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2594 appears in the right position. (Webb)
25959 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2596 button doesn't give popup menu.
2597 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2598 selection.
2599 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2600 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2601 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
26028 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2603 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2604 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2605 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
26068 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2607 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2608 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026097 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2610 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2611 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
26127 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2613 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002614 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026157 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2616 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026176 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
26188 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2619 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2620 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
26218 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2622 know which keyboard is being used?
26237 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2624 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2625 area (Koloseike).
26268 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2627 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2628 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2629 the font name).
2630
2631
2632Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000026336 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2634 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2635 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2636 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2637 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026389 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2639 required and it's missing?
26408 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2641 wrong.
26429 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2643 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026449 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002645 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2646 flag.
26478 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2648 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2649 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
26508 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
26516 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2652 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2653 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2654 the tooltips work though...
26557 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2656 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
26578 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2658 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2659 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2660
2661
2662Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010026639 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2664 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026659 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2666 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2667 through files.
26687 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2669 read long file names. (Schroeder)
26704 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2671 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2672 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2673 problem during a refresh.
26745 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2675 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2676 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2677 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2678 colors as it should.
2679 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2680 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2681
2682
2683Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002684- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026857 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2686 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026878 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2688 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2689 (Phillipps)
2690
2691
2692GUI:
26939 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2694 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
26959 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002696 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002697 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
26989 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2699 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
27008 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2701 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
27028 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2703 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2704 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
27058 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2706 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2707 of where it is processing the output.
2708 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
27098 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2710 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010027118 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000027128 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2713 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2714 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020027158 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027168 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2717 browse().
27188 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2719 use that code? Or use console dialog.
27208 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2721 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000027227 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2723 - regexp on/off
2724 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2725 when all buffers/directory is used:
2726 - filter for file name
2727 when directory is used:
2728 - subdirectory on/off
2729 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027308 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2731 to avoid problems.
27328 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2733 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2734 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
27358 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2736 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2737 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
27388 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2739 up. Set erase character somehow?
27408 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2741 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2742 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2743 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
27448 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
27457 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2746 visible.
27477 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2748 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
27497 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2750 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
27518 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2752 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
27538 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2754 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2755 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2756 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2757- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
27584 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2759 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2760 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2761
2762
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01002763Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000027648 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2765 a good fallback, thus use:
2766 $HOME
2767 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2768 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2769 $USERPROFILE
2770 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2771 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2772 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2773 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027748 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2775 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
27768 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2777 Should work like in the GUI version.
27788 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2779 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
27808 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2781 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
27828 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2783 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2784 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027858 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2786 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2787 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2788
2789
2790Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020027918 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002792 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2793 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
27948 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2795 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2796
2797
2798Win32 console:
27999 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2800 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2801 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2802 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2803 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2804 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2805 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2806 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2807 and the file is not saved.
2808 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2809 long name.
28108 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2811 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
28127 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2813 besides the console.
28148 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
28159 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2816 <C-S-i>?
28179 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2818 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
28198 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2820 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028217 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2822 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2823 exiting.
2824
2825
2826Amiga:
28278 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2828 sequences.
28299 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2830 backslashes in result.
28318 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2832 all options, using white space separation.
2833
2834
2835Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002836- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028377 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2838 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2839 (Jack)
2840 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028418 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2842 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028438 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
28448 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
28459 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2846 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028479 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002848
2849
2850"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002851- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2852 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2854 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002855- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2856 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2857 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2858 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2859 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2860 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2861 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000028629 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2863 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000028649 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002865 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2866 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028678 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2868 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2869 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002870 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028717 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2872 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
28738 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2874 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2875 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028767 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2877 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2879 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028808 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2881 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2882 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2883 using the horizontal scrollbar.
28847 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2885 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2886 invocations belong together.
28878 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2888 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
28898 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2890 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2891 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01002892 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028938 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2894 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2895 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028968 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2897 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028987 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2899 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2900 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2901 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029027 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2903 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2904 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
29057 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2906 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2907 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
29087 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2909 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029107 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2911 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029129 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2913 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2914 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2915 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2916 script can be called.
29178 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2918 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2919 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029208 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2921 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029228 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002923 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2924 configurable?
29258 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
29269 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2927 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2928 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029298 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2930 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029318 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2932 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029338 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2934 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029359 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2936 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2937 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029387 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029398 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2940 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2941 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000029428 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2943 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002944 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2945 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029468 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2947 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
29489 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2949 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2950 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002951 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029527 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2953 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029547 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2955 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2956 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2957 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029588 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002959 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2960 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2961 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2962 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002963 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2964 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002965 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002966 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002967 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2968 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2969 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2970 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2971 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
29728 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2973 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
29749 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2975 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2976 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029778 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2978 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
29798 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2980 in lines that don't extend into the block?
29818 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2982 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2983 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
29848 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2985 'linebreak'.
29868 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2987 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2988 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029899 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2990 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2991 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2992 'magic' in history. (Margo)
29939 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2994 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
29959 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2996 isn't updated).
29979 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
29989 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2999 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3000 cause another redraw, etc.
30018 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3002 must escape special characters in the pattern.
30038 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3004 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3005 ":w!!" for that.
3006 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3007 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003008 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030097 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3010 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3011 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3012 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3013 clipboard)
30147 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3015 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3016 Waggoner)
30178 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3018 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3019 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000030206 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3021 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3022 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030238 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3024 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
30258 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3026 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3027 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000030288 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030298 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3030 (e.g., ":w").
30318 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3032 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
30338 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
3034 for ">>".
30358 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3036 script in do_cmdline().
30378 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3038 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3039 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3040 changes.
30418 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3042 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
30438 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3044 check for file marks. This can be slow.
30457 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3046 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3047 needed.
3048 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
30498 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3050 to skip catch_signals()?
30519 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3052 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3053 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3054 text?
30558 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3056 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
30578 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3058 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
30599 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3060 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3061 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3062 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3063 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
30647 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3065 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3066 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3067 in the list?
30688 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3069 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3070 instead of on button down.
30718 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
30729 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3073 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3075 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030768 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3077 character is typed.
30788 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3079 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
30808 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3081 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
30828 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3083 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3084 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3085 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3086 cygwin bash.
30877 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3088 Remember flags for backreferences.
30897 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3090 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
30917 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3092 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
30938 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3094 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
30957 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3096 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030977 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3098 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3099 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
31007 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3101 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
31028 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3103 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3104 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
31057 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3106 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003107
3108
3109I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
31109 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3111 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3112 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003113
3114
3115Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003116- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3117 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3118 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003119- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3120 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3121 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3122 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3123 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3124 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003125 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003126- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3127 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003128 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003129 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3130 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3131 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003132- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3133 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3134 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3135 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3136 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3137- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3138 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3139 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3140- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3141 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003142- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003143- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3144 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3145 character gets the highlighting.
3146- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3147 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3148- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3149 (Jennings)
3150- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3151- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3152 errors. How do we get the rest?
3153- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003154- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003155 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
3156- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
3157 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
3158 first?
3159- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
3160 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
3161- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3162 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3163 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3164- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3165 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3166 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3167 (Benzinger).
3168- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3169 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3170 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3171- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3172 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3173- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3174 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3175- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3176 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3177 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3178 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3179 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3180 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3181- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3182 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3183 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003184- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3185 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3186 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003187- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3188 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3189 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3190- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3191 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3192- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3193 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003194- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3195 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3196- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3197 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3198 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3199 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3200 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3201- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3202 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3203 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3204- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3205 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3206 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003207- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3208 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 +00003209- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3210 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3211 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3212 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3213 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3214- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3215 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3216
3217--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3218 *extensions-improvements*
3219
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003220Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3221- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3222 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3223 calling a function.
3224 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3225 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003226- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3227 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3228- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3229 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3230 http://clewn.sf.net.
3231 And the idevim plugin/script.
3232 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3233 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3234 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3235 other window.
3236 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3237 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3238 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3239 in terminal mode.
3240- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3241 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3242 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3243 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3244 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3245 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003246 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003247- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3248 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3249 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003250- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3251 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003252- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3253 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3254 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032558 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3256 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3257 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3258 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003259- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3260 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003261
3262
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003263Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032648 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3265 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032668 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3267 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032688 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3269 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032717 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
32729 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3273 - change to cursor position and curswant
3274 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3275 - how it works for folded lines
3276 - how it works with multi-byte characters
32779 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3278 work too.
32798 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3280 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3281 text.
32828 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
32837 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3284 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
32857 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3286 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003287 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003288- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3289
3290
3291Help:
3292- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3293 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3294- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3295 to the other matches.
3296- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3297- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3298- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3299 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3300 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3301 default contents.
3302- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3303 height for the help window (and other windows).
3304- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3305- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3306- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3307
3308
3309User Friendlier:
33108 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3311 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3312 Briscoe)
33138 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
33148 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3315 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3316 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
33178 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3318 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3319- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3320 ":mkplugin <file>"?
33218 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3322 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3323 'runtimepath'.
3324 " Vim plugin
3325 <main plugin code>
3326 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3327 <plugin docs>
3328- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
33299 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3330 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3331 item?).
3332 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033338 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
33347 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000033357 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3336 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3337 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000033388 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3339 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3340 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3341 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003342
3343
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003344Tab pages:
33459 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033467 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3347 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033488 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000033498 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033507 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033517 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003352 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033537 Add local variables for each tab page?
33548 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3355 tab pages.
33567 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033577 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3358 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003359
3360
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003361Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003362- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3363 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3364- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3365 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3366 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3367- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3368 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003369- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3370 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3371 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003372- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3373 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3374 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003375- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3376 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003377- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003378 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3379 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000033808 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3381 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
33828 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3383 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
33848 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3385 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003386 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003387 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3388 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3389 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3390 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003391- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3392 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003393- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003394- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3395 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003396- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003397 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003398- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003399 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003400- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3401 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003402- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3403 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3404- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003405 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003406 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3407 in the affix file separately.
3408 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003409 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003410 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3411 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3412 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3413- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3414 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3415 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3416 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3417 Alternative:
3418 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3419 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3420 affix which is required.
3421- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003422 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003423- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3424 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3425 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003426- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3427 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003428- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3429 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3430- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034318 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3432 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3433 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3434 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003435- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3436 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3437 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3438 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034398 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3440 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034418 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
34428 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3443 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034447 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
34458 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3446 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3447 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3448 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003449
3450
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003451Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020034529 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3453 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034549 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3455 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003456 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034578 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3458 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3459 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003460 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3461 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034627 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3463 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3464 location.
3465
3466
3467Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003468 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3469 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034708 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3471 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000034728 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034739 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3474 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034758 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3476 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3477 user aware of this?
34788 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3479 commands skip over a closed fold.
34808 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
34818 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034827 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003483- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3484 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3485 missing line goes unnoticed.
3486 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003487- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3488 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3489 smoother?
3490- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3491 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003492- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3493 file can contain:
3494 args version.c main.c
3495 edit version.c
3496 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003497- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003498- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3499 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003500- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3501 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003502- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3503 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003504- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035058 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003506 searches.
3507
3508
3509Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003510- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3511 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3512 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3513 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035149 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3515 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3516 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3517 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020035189 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3519 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3520 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035218 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3522 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3523 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3524 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3525 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3526 item.
35278 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003528 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3529 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035308 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3531 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003532 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003533 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3535 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035368 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3537 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3538 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035397 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3540 so that the user can fix the problem.
35418 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3542 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035439 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
35448 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035458 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
35468 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035477 Searching and composing characters:
3548 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003549 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3550 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
35528 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
35538 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3554 characters.
35558 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
35568 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3557 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
35587 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3559 'display' option to specify this.
35607 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3561 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3562- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3563 fontselector somehow.
3564- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3565 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3566- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3567 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3568- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3569 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3570 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3571 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3572 if a font exists?
3573- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003574 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003575- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3576 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003577- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3578 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3579 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3580 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003581- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3582 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3583 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3584- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3585 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3586 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3587 But it's very complicated...
3588
3589
3590Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000035917 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003592- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3593- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3594 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003595- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3596 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003597- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3598- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3599 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003600- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3601 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003602- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3603 units as for the margins.
3604- Support right-to-left text?
36058 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3606 color.
3607
3608
3609Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036108 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3611 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
36128 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3613 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
36148 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3615 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000036167 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3617 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036188 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3619 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3620 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036217 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3622 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3623 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036248 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
36259 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3626 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036277 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3628 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000036297 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3630 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036318 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3632 change this for each release.
36338 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3634 pattern, but not in the body.
36358 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3636 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3637 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036388 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010036398 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003640 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3641 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036428 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3643 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
36448 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3645 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003646 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036478 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3648 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3649 used.
36508 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3651 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
36528 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3653 re-insert the [] if possible.
36548 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3655 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000036568 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3657 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3658 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3659 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3660 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036618 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3662 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
36638 Support for deleting syntax items:
3664 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3665 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3666 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
36678 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3668 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3669 a '<'. (Fleiner)
36707 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3671 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3672 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
36737 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3674 detected.
36758 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003676 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3678 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036798 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
36808 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
36817 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3682 ":mkvimrc".
36838 Improve c.vim:
3684 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3685 "c_strict_ansi".
3686 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
36878 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3688 current line while in Insert mode.
36898 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3690 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
36918 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3692 display position.
36938 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3694 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3695 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
36968 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3697 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3698 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036998 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3700 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3701 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000037027 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3703 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3704 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3705 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3706 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037077 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3708 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3709 E.g. for this html:
3710 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037117 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
37127 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3713 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037148 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
37158 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037167 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3717 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3718 completion?
37198 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3720 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
37217 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3722 select one of the sets.
37238 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3724 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3725 2, etc.
37268 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3727 highlighting (for "." command).
37288 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3729 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
37308 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
37317 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3732 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
37336 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3734 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3735- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3736 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3737- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003738- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3739 (for comment blocks).
3740- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3741 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3742 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3743 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3744 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3745 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3746 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3747 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3748 (Campbell)
3749 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3750 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
37517 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3752 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
37537 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3754 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3755 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
37567 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3757 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3758 messages. And external commands?
37598 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3760 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
37617 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3762 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3763
3764
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003765Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037668 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3767 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003768 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000037697 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3770 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3771 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037728 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3773 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003774- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3775 2006 Dec 11.
3776- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020037778 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3778 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3779 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3780 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3781 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3782 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000037837 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3784 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037858 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010037868 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
3787 can be the plugin name.
3788 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
3789 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037907 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3791 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3792 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3793 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3794 autocommand.
3795 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3796 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3797 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3798 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037997 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3800 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038016 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3802 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038038 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003804 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3805 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003806 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3807 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3808 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003809 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3810 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3811 3 2002
3812 Only add this when also implemented for
3813 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3814 be used.
3815 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003816 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3817 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3818 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3819 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3820 File.Open..." argument.
3821 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3822 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3823 with properties instead.
3824 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3825 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3826 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003827 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003828 crypt() encrypt string
3829 decrypt() decrypt string
3830 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3831 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003833 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003834 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003835 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003836 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003837 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3838 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003839 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3840 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003842 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3843 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003844 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3845 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3846 to allow the library to execute a command or
3847 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038487 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3849 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
38508 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3851 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038528 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3853 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038548 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020038559 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003856 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
38576 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000038588 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3859 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038608 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3861 option or environment variable.
38628 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038638 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003864 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000038657 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3866 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038678 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3868 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
38698 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
38708 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3871 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3872 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3873 charwise({expr}).
38747 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3875 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3876 buffer for this?
3877 result = scratch(string, command)
3878 result = apply(string, command)
3879 result = execute(string, command)
3880 "command" would use <> notation.
3881 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
38827 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003883
3884
3885Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000038866 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3887 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3888 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3889 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3890 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3891 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3892 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003893
3894
3895Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038967 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3897 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038987 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3899 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3900 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3901 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000039028 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3903 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3904 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3905 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003906 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039078 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3908 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3909 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039108 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
39119 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
39128 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
39137 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3914 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
39158 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3916 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3917 when starting up in a color terminal.
39188 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3919 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039208 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3921 function be improved?
39228 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3923 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3924 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3925 this be improved?
39268 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3927 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039287 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3929 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039307 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3931 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
39327 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3933 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020039347 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039357 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3936 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3937 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3938 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3939 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3940 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3941 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039428 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3943 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3944 using strcmp() too often?
39457 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3946 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3947 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3948 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3949 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3950 the two blocks to the memfile block.
39517 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3952 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3953 with an argument that can be messed with.
3954 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3955 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
39567 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3957- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
39588 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3959 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3960- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3961 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3962- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3963- Do profiling on:
3964 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3965 - 1000ii<Esc>
3966 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3967 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3968 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3969 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3970 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3971 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003972 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039737 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3974 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3975 changed).
3976 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3977 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3978- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3979- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3980 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3981- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3982 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3983 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3984- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3985 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3986- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3987- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3988 cursor is right of the screen.
39898 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3990 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3991
3992
3993Code size:
39948 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3995- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3996 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
39978 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
39988 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3999 it.
40007 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4001 left out.
40028 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4003 can be removed.
40048 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
4005
4006
4007Messages:
40088 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4009 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
40108 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4011 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
40128 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4013 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004014- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4015 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4016- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040178 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4018 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040199 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4020 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4021 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4022 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4023 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040248 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4025 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
40268 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4027 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4028 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4029 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4030 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4031 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004032- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004033 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040348 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4035 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4036 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4037 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4038 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4039 error messages, printing text, etc.
40408 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4041 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4042 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4043
4044
4045Screen updating:
40467 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4047 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4048 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4049- screen_line():
4050 - insert/delete character stuff.
4051 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4052- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4053 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4054- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4055 waiting for a character.
40568 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4057 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4058 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
40597 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004060
4061
4062Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020040638 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040646 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4065- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4066 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4067 windows.
40687 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4069 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4070 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4071- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4072 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4073 (Goldfarb)
4074- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4075 bound windows.
4076- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4077 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004078- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004079- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4080 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4081 of lines but not with a single line).
4082
4083
4084Autoconf:
40858 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
40868 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4087 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4088- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4089 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4090- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4091- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4092- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4093
4094
4095Perl interface:
40968 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040977 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
40987 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
40996 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4100
4101
4102Shared libraries:
41036 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4104 :libload internal-name libname
4105 :libunload internal-name
4106 :liblist
4107 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4108 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4109 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
41106 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4111
4112
4113Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000041149 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4115 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4116 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4117 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4118 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041198 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4120 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4121 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004122 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004123 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000041247 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4125 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4126 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041278 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
41288 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4129 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041307 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4131 window for each tag.
41327 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
41337 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4134 bottom" search message.
41357 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4136 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4137 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004138- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4139- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004140- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4141 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4142 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041437 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4144 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4145 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4146 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
41477 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4148 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4149 :tagargs clear
4150 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4151 matching).
41527 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4153 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4154 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4155 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
41567 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4157 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
41587 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4159 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4160 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161
4162
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163Win32 GUI:
41648 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4165 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041667 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4167 (Mike McCollister)
41688 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4169 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4170 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4171 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4172 common part of the path.
41738 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
41748 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4175 gettext and menus work.
41768 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4177 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004178 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004179 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
41808 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4181 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
41828 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4183 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
41847 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4185 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
41867 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
41877 <Esc> should close a dialog.
41887 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4189 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4190 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4191 prompts.
41927 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4193 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4194 the file added into an already running Vim.
41957 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4196 functions to find the window title.
4197
4198
4199GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020042008 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4202 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
42037 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
42048 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
42056 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
42068 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4207 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
42089 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
42097 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
42108 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4211 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
42128 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4213 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4214 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
42158 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4216 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
42178 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4218 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4219 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4220 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042217 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
42228 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4223 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000042247 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4225 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4226 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042278 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
42288 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004229 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042308 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
42318 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
42328 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4233 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4234 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
42357 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4236 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4237 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
42387 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4239 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
42407 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4241 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4242 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4243 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
42447 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4245 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
42467 Should support multi-column menus.
4247- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4248 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4249- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
42508 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
42516 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4252 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
42537 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
42547 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4255 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4256 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
42577 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
42588 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4259 name can be chosen free.
42607 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4261 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
42626 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4263 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4264 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4265 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4266 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4267 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4268 things.
42697 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4270 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042717 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004272 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004273- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4274 where it was started from?
42757 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4276
4277
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004278Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020042799 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4280 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004281- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042828 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4283 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4284 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4285 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
42868 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4287 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000042887 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4289 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4290 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4291 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042927 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042938 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4294 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042958 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4296 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4297 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042987 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4299 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4300 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043018 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4302 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4303 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000043048 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4305 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043068 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043076 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4308 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000043097 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043107 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004311 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4312 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4313 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043145 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4315 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4316 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
43177 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4318 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4319 file.
43208 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4321 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4322 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004323- Add events to autocommands:
4324 Error - When an error happens
4325 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004326 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004327 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4328 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004329 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004330 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004331 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4332 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004333 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004334 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004335 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4336 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4337 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4338 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004339 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004340 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4341 the char.
4342 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4343 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4344 file from CVS).
4345 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4346 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4347 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4348 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4349 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4350 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004351 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4352 changes.
4353 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4354 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004355- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004357 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004358 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4359 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4360 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4361 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4362 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4363
4364
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004365Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004366- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4367 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004368- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4369 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4370 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4371 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4372 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004373- Ideas from others:
4374 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4375 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4376 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4377 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4378 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4379 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4380 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4381 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4382 Uses Perl for C++.
4383 Uses ctags to find the info:
4384 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4385 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4386 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4387 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4388 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4389 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004390 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004391 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4392- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4393
4394
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004395Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004396- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000043977 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4398 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043997 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4400 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4401 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4403 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
44049 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4405 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4406 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044078 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4408 - ignore/match case
4409 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044108 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4411 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4412 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4413 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4414 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4415 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044168 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044177 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4418 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044198 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4420 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4421 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4422 Should work for C++ and Java.
4423 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
44247 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
44257 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4426 instead of words.
44278 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
44288 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4429 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
44308 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4431 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004432- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4433 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004434- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4435 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4436 wildcards in the file name)?
4437- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4438- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4439- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4440 be in another file).
4441- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4442- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4443- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4444 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4445- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4446- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4447- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004448- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4449
4450
4451Command line editing:
44527 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4453 line.
44548 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4455 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4456 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4457- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4458 lines wraps to start of line).
4459- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4460 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4461 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4462 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4463 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4464 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4465 cmdwin does now already.
4466 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4467 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4468 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4469 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4470 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4471 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4472 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4473 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4474 Problems:
4475 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4476 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4477 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4478 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4479 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4480 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4481 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4482 character in first column?
4483 - Implementation ideas:
4484 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4485 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4486 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4487 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4488 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4489 Mode.
4490
4491
4492Command line completion:
44938 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
44948 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4495 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
44968 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4497 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044988 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4499 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045007 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4501 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004502- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4503- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4504 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045058 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4506 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
45077 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4508 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4509- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4510 identifiers (Webb).
45118 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4512 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
45137 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4514 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4515- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4516 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4517- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4518 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4519 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520
4521
4522Command line history:
4523- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4524 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4525 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4526 completely resulted from one mapping.
4527- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4528 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4529
4530
4531Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000045329 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4533 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4534 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045358 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4536 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4537 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4538 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4539 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045408 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4541 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4542 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4544 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004545- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020045469 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045477 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4548 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4549- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4550 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4551 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4552 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4553 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4554 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4555- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4556 Normal mode.
4557- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4558 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4559 are used.
4560- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4561- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4562- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4563
4564
4565'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010045669 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4567 char * veryLongName =
4568 "very long string"
4569 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045708 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045718 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4572 long_type foo =
4573 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045748 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4575 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004576 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045778 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4578 func(
4579 new String[] {
4580 "asdf",
4581 "asdf"
4582 }
4583 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045848 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4585 (Chow Loong Jin)
4586 namespace {
4587 int
4588 func(int arg) {
4589 }
4590 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045916 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4592 func( arg1
4593 , arg2
4594 , arg3
4595 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000045967 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597 func(
4598 int x) // indent like "(4"
4599 {
4600 if (a
4601 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046029 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4603 if (a)
4604 {
4605 if (b)
4606 {
4607 // {
4608 }
4609 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004610 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4611 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4612 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004613- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004614 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
46157 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4616- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4617 line).
4618- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4619- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4620 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004621- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4622 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4623- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4624 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4625- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4626- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4627 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
46288 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4629 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4630 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4631- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4632- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4633 lines start with "\item".
4634- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4635 /* here is a comment that
4636 is just autoindented, and
4637 nothing else */
4638- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
46397 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4640 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4641 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004642 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004643
4644
4645Java:
46468 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4647 Odendahl?
46488 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4649 "[i" commands and friends.
4650- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4651 (Jason)
4652- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4653 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4654
4655
4656'comments':
46578 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4658 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4659 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4660 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004661 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4662 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046637 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4664 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
46657 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
46666 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4667 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4668 regexp is used.
46698 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4670 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4671
4672
4673Virtual edit:
46748 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046757 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4676
4677
4678Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046798 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046808 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000046818 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004682 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046838 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4684 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004685 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4686 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046878 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046887 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4689 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046908 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4691 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046928 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4693 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4694 the end of the line or before a ".".
46957 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4696 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
46977 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4698 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046996 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
47005 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4701 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4702 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4703 cursor is on.
4704
4705
4706Select mode:
47078 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4708 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
47097 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004710 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047117 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4712 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4713 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4714 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4715 normal_cmd().
4716 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4717 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4718
4719
4720Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020047218 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4722 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004723- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4724 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4725 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004726- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4727 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4728 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047298 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004730 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004731 where needed.
47327 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4733 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
47347 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4735 of each selected line.
47368 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
47378 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4738 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4739 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
47408 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4741 Ben Godfrey)
47427 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4743 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
47447 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4745 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
47467 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4747 Young is working on this)
47487 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004749 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004750 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
47518 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4752 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
47537 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4754 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4755 option!
47567 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4757 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4758 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4759 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4760 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4761 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4762 without changing the column.
47636 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047647 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4765 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047666 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4767 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
47686 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047696 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004770 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004771 or other special character.
47726 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4773
4774
4775More advanced repeating commands:
4776- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047777 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004778 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004779- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004780- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004781 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4782 "y." will repeat last yank.
4783 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4784 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4785 and/or pick an older command.
4786- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4787
4788
4789Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047908 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4791 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4792 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
47938 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
47947 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4795 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047968 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4797 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
47988 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000047997 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048008 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4801 entering search strings.
48028 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4803 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4804 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048058 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4806 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048078 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4808 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4809 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
48107 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048117 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4812 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048136 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4814 abbreviations are to be used.
4815- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4816 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4817 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004818- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4819 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4820 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4821 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4822 Or implicit:
4823 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004824- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4825 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4826 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4828 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4829- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4830 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
48316 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4832 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4833 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4834 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004835- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4836 non-replace Insert mode?
4837- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004838- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4839- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4840 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4841- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004842 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004843- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4844 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4845- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4846- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4847 ":freekeys".
4848- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4849
4850
4851Incsearch:
4852- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4853- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4854 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4855 up every time.
4856- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4857 folds when going to another line.
4858- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4859 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4860 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4861 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4862- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4863 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4864
4865
4866Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010048679 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000048688 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004869 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004870 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004871 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004872 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048739 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4874 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010048758 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4876 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000048778 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4878 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4879 Perl does it this way:
4880 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4881 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4882 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4883 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048848 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4885 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4886 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048878 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4888 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4889 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000048907 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4891 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000048928 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4893 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048947 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004895 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4896 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4897 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
48987 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4899 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000049007 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004901 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049027 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4903 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049048 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4905 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
49068 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4907 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020049087 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004909 example.
49108 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4911 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4912- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4913 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4914 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4915 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049168 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4917 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4918 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
49197 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4920 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000049217 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4922 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049238 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4924 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049258 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4926 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049278 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4928 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4929 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4930 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004931- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4932 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004933- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4934 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4935- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4936 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4937 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4938 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049398 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4940 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4942 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049438 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4944 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4945 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4947 i ignore case
4948 I use case
4949 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4950 v use Vi regexp syntax
4951 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4952 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4953 Perl uses these too:
4954 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4955 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4956 o compile only once (Perl only)
4957 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4958 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4959 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4960 following command.
4961 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4962- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4963 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4964 for search string)?
49657 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4966 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4967- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4968 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4969- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4970 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4971- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4972- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004973 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004974 a for the next file in the argument list
4975 f for file in the buffer list
4976 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004977 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4978 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004979 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4980 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4981- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049827 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004983 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049847 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4985 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4986 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4987 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
49886 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4989 effects.
49907 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4991 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4992 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049937 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004994 Also ":dselect".
4995
4996
4997Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010049989 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4999 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5000 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050019 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5002 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020050038 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
5004 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
5005 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
50068 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5007 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050088 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5009 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5010 timestamp?
5011 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5012 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050138 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
5014 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
5015 was changed outside of Vim.
5016 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
5017 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02005018 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
5019 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005020- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5021 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005022- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5023 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5024 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
50258 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5026 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5027 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5028 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
50298 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5030 only remember the lines that really changed.
50317 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5032 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5033 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5034 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5036 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5037- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5038 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5039- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5040 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5041 [-99].
5042- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5043- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005044- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5045 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5046
5047
5048Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050497 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5050 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5051 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5052 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
50538 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5054 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
50558 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5056 inode too.
50577 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005058 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5059 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050607 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5061 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5062- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5063 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5064- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5065 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
50667 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5067 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
50687 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5069 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
50708 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050718 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005072 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
50737 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5074 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010050758 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5076 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5077 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005078
5079
5080Swap (.swp) files:
50818 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5082 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5083 there are short file name problems.
50848 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5085 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
50868 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
50878 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005088 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005089 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5090 file the same as the actual file?
5091 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050927 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5093 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
50947 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005095 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005096 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5097 enough room.
50987 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5099 or /var/preserve.
5100- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5101 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5102- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
5103 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
5104- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5105 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5106 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5107 cached list of which line is where.
5108
5109
5110Viminfo:
51117 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5112 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5113 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051148 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5115 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5116 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051178 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5118 name. (Schild)
51198 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
51208 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051218 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051228 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5123 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5124 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5125 this?
51267 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
51277 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5128 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
51296 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5130 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5131 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5132- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5133 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5134
5135
5136Modelines:
51378 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5138 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5139 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005140- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5141 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5142 'shiftwidth'.
5143- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5144 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005145- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5146 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5147 modeline setting.
5148- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5149 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5150- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5151 .cpp files.
5152- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5153 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5154- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5155 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5156
5157
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005158Sessions:
51598 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5160 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
51617 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5162 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051638 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5164 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051658 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5166 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5167 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000051687 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5169 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000051707 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005171
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005172
5173Options:
51747 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5175 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051768 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5177 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5178 also be supported.
51798 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5180 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5181 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
51827 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
51837 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5184 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005185 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186
5187
5188External commands:
51898 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5190 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
51914 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5192 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5193 -f).
51944 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
51954 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5196 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
51974 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5198
5199
5200Multiple Windows:
52017 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
52028 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5203 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
52047 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5205 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5206 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000052077 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5208 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000052097 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5210 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052116 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5212 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005213 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
52157 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5216 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5217 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5218 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5219- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5220 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5221 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5222 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5223
5224
5225Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052268 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5228 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052298 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 +000052308 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5231 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
52328 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5233 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5234 the mark was set.
52357 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5236 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5237 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5238 ":browse marks"?
52396 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052407 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5241 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
52427 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5243 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
52447 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5245 command).
52467 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5247 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5248 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5249 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
52505 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5251 mappings.
52526 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5253 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5254 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5255
5256
5257Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020052587 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005259 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005260- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5261 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000052628 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052637 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5264 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5265
5266
5267Writing files:
5268- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5269 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5270 shortname conversion.
52718 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
52728 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5273 file.
52748 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5275 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5276 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052776 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5278 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
52796 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5280 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
52816 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5282 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052838 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005284 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
52857 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5286 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
52877 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5288 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5289 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5290 waiting for a character to be typed).
52918 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5292 line of the window, like "[time]".
5293 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5294 Automatic and/or with a command.
5295
5296
5297Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000052988 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5299 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000053008 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005301 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5302- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5303- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
53048 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5305 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005306- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005307 :s///N substitutes N times.
5308- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5309 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5310 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
53117 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5312 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5313 last line column 5.
53145 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5315 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5316 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5317 (Stanislav Sitar)
5318
5319
5320Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053218 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
53227 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
53238 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5324 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5325 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005326- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5327- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5328 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5329- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5330- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5331
5332
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005333Argument list:
53346 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5335 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5336 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
53376 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5338
5339
5340Registers:
53418 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053428 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5343 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5344 for every line.
53456 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5346 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5347 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5348- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5349 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5350- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5351 leader when line wraps?
5352- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5353 line in the range.
5354- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5355 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
53568 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5357 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005358
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005359
5360Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053618 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053628 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053637 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
53647 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5365
5366
5367Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000053687 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5369 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5370 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5371 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5372 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5373 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5374 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005375 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000053767 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5377 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000053787 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5379 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053808 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5381 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053827 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5383 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5384 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005385- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005386 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053877 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5388 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053897 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5390 window as a buffer-tab selection.
53918 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053927 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5393 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5394 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005395 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5396 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053977 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5398 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
53998 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5400 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054016 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054028 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5403 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5404 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5405 in this Vim.
54068 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005407 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054088 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5409 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5410 have it apply to the following command.
54118 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5412 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5413 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5414 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054157 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5416 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054177 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5418 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5419 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5420 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054216 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
54228 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
54239 Support ACLs on more systems.
54247 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5425 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054267 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5427 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5428 (truncated to fit in the space).
54297 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
54308 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
54318 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5432 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000054337 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
54357 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5436 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054377 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054387 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
54397 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054408 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
54418 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5442 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5443 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5444 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
54458 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
54466 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5447 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005448 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005449 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054508 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054518 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5452 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5453 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5454 does something like this. (Shah)
54557 Use growarray for replace stack.
54567 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5457 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
54583 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054597 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5460 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010054617 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5462 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005463- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5464- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5465- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5466- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
54677 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5468 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5469- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5470 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005471- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005472- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5473 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5474- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5475 call "play newbeep.au").
5476- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5477 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5478 (Bhatt).
5479- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5480 blockwise registers).
5481- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5482 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5483- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5484 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5485 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5486 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005487- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054887 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5489 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5490- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5491 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5492 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5493 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5494 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054958 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5496 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054978 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5498 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5499 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5500 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5501 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5502- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005503- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055047 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5505 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5506- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5507 not in column 1.
55086 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5509 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
55107 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5511- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005512- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005513 :redir #> bufname
5514 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005515- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5516 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5518 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5519 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
55206 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5521 console? (Klaus Hast)
5522- Add :delcr command:
5523 *:delcr*
5524 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5525 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5526 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5527 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5528 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5529 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5530- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5531- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5532 characters from 'isprint'.
5533- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5534- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5535 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5536- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5537 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5538 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5539- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5540- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5541 Nvi).
5542- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5543 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
55447 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5545- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5546 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
55476 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5548- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5549 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5550 macro).
5551- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005552- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5553 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5554- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
55558 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005556- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5557- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5558- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5559 if it is not the first or last window.
5560- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5561 there is one) instead of the file itself.
55627 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5563 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5564 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5565- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5566- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005567 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005568 many percent down the windows).
5569- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5570 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5571 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005572 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5574 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5575- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5576 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5577- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5578- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5579- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5580 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055818 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5582 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5583 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5584 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5585 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5587 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5588- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005589 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5590- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005591 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5592 (Webb).
5593- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005594 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005595- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5596 hex codes like 0xff).
5597- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5598 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5599 the last TYPED command.
5600- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5601- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5602- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5603 should also work?
5604- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
56058 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5606 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5607 name.
5608- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5609 trailing '.'.
5610- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5611 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5612 find_file_in_path().
5613- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5614 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5615- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5616- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5617 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5618- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005619 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005620- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5621 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5622 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005623- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5624- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5625- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5626 to the minimal size.
5627- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5628- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5629- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5630- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5631- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005632- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5633 entered)?
5634- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5635 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005636- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005637- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5638- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5639- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5640- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5641- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5642 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005643- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056448 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5645 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5646 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5647 or in octal.
56487 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5649 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005650- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005651 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5652- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5653- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5654 insert line command).
5655- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5656- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5657- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5658- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5659- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5660 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005661- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005662 yet.
5663- Implement 'redraw' option.
5664- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5665 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056667 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5667 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005668 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5669 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056708 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5671 do it.
5672- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5673- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5674 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5675- Add text justification option.
5676- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5677- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5678 off".
5679- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5680- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5681- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005682 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005683- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005684- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005685- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5686- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5687 commands.
5688- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5689- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5690- :table command (Webb)
5691- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005692- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5693- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5694- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5695- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5696- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5697 (Demirel).
5698- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5699- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5700 for use in macro's and the like.
5701- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005702 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005703- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005704 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005705- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005706 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5708- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5709 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005710- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005711 mkopttab to make option table?
5712- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5713 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5714- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5715 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005716- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005717 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5718- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5719 cursor?
5720- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5721- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
57225 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5723 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000057248 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5725 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5726 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5727 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5728 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057298 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5730 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5731 (Netherton)
57326 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5733 space after "(", for example.
57345 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5735 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5736 (Servatius Brandt)
5737
5738
5739From Elvis:
5740- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5741- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005742- Search patterns:
5743 \@ match word under cursor.
5744 but do:
5745 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5746 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
57478 ":window" command:
5748 :win + next window (up)
5749 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5750 :win - previous window (down)
5751 :win -- idem, wrapping
5752 :win nr to window number "nr"
5753 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
57547 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5755 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5756
5757
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005758From xvi:
5759- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5760- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5761
5762
5763From vile:
5764- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5765- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5766 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5767
5768
5769Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005770- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5771 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5772 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5773 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5774 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005775- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5776 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5777- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5778 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5779 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5780 current layout mirrored.
5781- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5782- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5783 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5784- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5785- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5786 font in each top-level window.
5787- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5788- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5789- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5790- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5791 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5792- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5793 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5794 mentioned in the tags file.
5795 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5796 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5797- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5798 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5799- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5800 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
58014 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5802 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5803 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5804 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005805 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005806 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5807 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5808- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5809 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5810 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5811
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005812When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5813empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005814
5815vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5816vim: set fo+=n :