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Bram Moolenaar11e3c5b2021-04-21 18:09:37 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2021 Apr 21
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010041Vim9 - Make everything work:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020042- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
43 islocked()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020044- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
45 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020046 eval_variable(). Should pass the ".xxx" that follows and return that.
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010047- Make "++nr" work. "++g:count" doesn't work, thinks it is a range.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010048- Reload: How to make sure type of script function hasn't changed?
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020049- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
50- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
51- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +020052- compile_member() guesses the type, should figure out at runtime.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010053- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
54- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
55- give an error for "echo Func()" if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +010056- Using "windo echo expr" does not accept a line break inside "expr" (in a
57 :def function and at script level in a not executed block). #7681
Bram Moolenaar11e3c5b2021-04-21 18:09:37 +020058- use CheckLegacyAndVim9Success(lines) in many more places
59- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be
60 more strict about the argument type (not a bool).
61 done: balloon_()
62- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
63 map() could check that the return type of the function argument matches
64 the type of the list or dict member. (#8092)
65- Allow for using an autoload function name without quotes. It is then loaded
66 (and compiled) right away. #8124
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010067
68Once Vim9 is stable:
69- Change the help to prefer Vim9 syntax where appropriate
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010070- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation.
71- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs.
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +010072- Add the "vim9script" feature, can use has('vim9script')
73- Use Vim9 for runtime files.
74 PR #7497 for autoload/ccomplete.vim
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010075
76Also for Vim9:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010077- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010078- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
79- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010080- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
81- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010082- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010083 Test that return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +010084- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
85 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
86 defined.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010087- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
88 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
89 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
90 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
91 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
92 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
93- implement :type; import type declaration.
94- implement enum; import enum.
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020095- Future work: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010096 Define the keywords and commands to make sure it will be backwards
97 compatible.
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020098- Make debugging work - at least per function. Need to recompile a function
99 to step through it line-by-line? Evaluate the stack and variables on the
100 stack?
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200101- List commands when 'verbose' is set or :verbose is used.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100102
103Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
104- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
105 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200106- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200107- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100108- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
109 EVAL expr
110 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
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Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100112
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200113Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200114- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
115 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
116 current window.
117 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
118 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200119- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
120 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100121- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200122- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
123 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100124- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
125 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
126 the way. (#5737)
127 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200128- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
129 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100130- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200131- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
132 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200133- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100134- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
135 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
136- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200137- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200138 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100139- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
140 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200141- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100142 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100143- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200144
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200145Text properties:
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100146- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is no longer
147 visible. (#7736)
148- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is deleted with
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100149 "cc". (#7737) "C" works OK. "dd" also files in a buffer with a single
150 line.
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100151- Auto-indenting may cause highlighting to shift. (#7719)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100152- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100153- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
154 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +0100155- Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight if
156 the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100157- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200158
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100159'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200160- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
161 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
162- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200163- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200164- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
165 isn't one?
166 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
167
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200168Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100169- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200170- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100171- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200172
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200173Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200174- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100175- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
176 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200177- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100178- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200179- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200180 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
181 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100182- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100183- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
184 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100185 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100186 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200187
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200188Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100189- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200190- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200191- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
192 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
193 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200194- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
195 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
196 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
197 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200198- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
199 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100200- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
201 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200202 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
203 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100204 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100205- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100206- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
207 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200208- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
209 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200210- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200211- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
212 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200213- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
214 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
215- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
216 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200217- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
218 is disabled.
219- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
220- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
221 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200222- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
223 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
224 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
225- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
226- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
227 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
228- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
229 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200230
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100231Include patch #6290: recognize shell directory change.
232
233Valgrind reports memory leaks in test_options.
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200234Valgrind reports overlapping memcpy in
235 test_conceal.3
236 test_edit.1
237 test_functions.4
238 test_ins_complete.3
239 test_method
240 test_normal
241 test_popupwin.35 et al.
242 test_search_stat
243Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
244Memory leak in test_debugger
245Memory leak in test_paste, using XtOpenDisplay several times
246OLD:
247TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
248Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
249Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
250Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100251
252test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200253
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200254Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
255
256Patch for Template string: #4634
257Have another look at the implementation.
258
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200259Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200260Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200261
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100262Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100263(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100264Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
265interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100266
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200267Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
268
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200269Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
270to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
271Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
272inconsistent with the documentation.
273
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100274Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
275Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
276
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200277Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
278with 'termguicolors'. #1740
279
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200280Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660.
281
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100282Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
283
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100284Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
285
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200286Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
287changes.
288
289Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
290This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
291to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
292
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200293Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
294Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
295
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200296Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
297Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
298
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100299Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
300/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
301
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100302MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
303mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925)
304Add a flag to only copy attributes?
305
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100306Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
307 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
308 aaa
309 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
310 aaa bbb
311Should also work without any group:
312 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
313 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
314
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200315Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200316Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200317(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
318Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
319- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
320 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
321 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
322- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
323 covered by the above change.
324So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
325same thing.
326Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200327
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200328Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
329autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
330 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
331 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
332 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
333 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
334 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
335The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
336
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100337Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
338mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
339
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200340Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
341Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200342
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200343Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
344Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
345After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
346work.
347
348Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
349autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200350
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200351Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
352 replace this:
353 let left = GetLeftFunc()
354 let right = GetRightFunc()
355 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
356 by:
357 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200358Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
359
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200360Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
361
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100362":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
363
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200364Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
365(#6539)
366
367When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
368register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
369(#6435)
370
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100371File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
372
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200373"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
374add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200375Athena is OK.
376Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200377Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
378manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200379
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200380Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
381
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100382When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative, while
383editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355)
384Which one should it be?
385
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200386:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
387(#5623, also see #5962)
388
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200389Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
390character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200391
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200392undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
393
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200394After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
395corruption. (#6631)
396
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100397When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
398(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
399
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200400With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
401'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100402
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200403Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
404which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
405#6127
406
407When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
408":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
409Might be related to #6088.
410
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200411Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
412(#6919)
413
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200414When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
415Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
416(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
417
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100418Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
419(Paul Jolly, #5656)
420Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100421 Later more requests for what to track.
422 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
423 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
424 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100425BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100426Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100427
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200428Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
429
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200430Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
431
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200432Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
433
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200434Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
435"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
436script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200437Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200438
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100439:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
440Dec 19)
441
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200442Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
443Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
444
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100445Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
446May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200447Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
448remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100449Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200450
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100451When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
452the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
453
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200454Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100455Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
456in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200457Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
458(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200459
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100460Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
461ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200462Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100463
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200464Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
465that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
466Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100467
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200468":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
469goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
470unlisted. (#4478)
471
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100472Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100473
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200474":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
475find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
476
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200477Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
478
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100479Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
480
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100481Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
482
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200483The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
484support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
485
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100486"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
487
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200488Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
489Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
490
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100491Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
492
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200493When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
494the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
495
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200496Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
497(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
498
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200499When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
500default one. #4698
501
502When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
503with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
504
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100505Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200506Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100507
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200508Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200509fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
510
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200511Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200512
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200513Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
514- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
515- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100516- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200517
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100518Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200519Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100520
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100521When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
522when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
523gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
524input buffer. (#5302)
525
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100526:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
527(#5467)
528
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200529Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200530
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100531Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5322007 Feb 18)
533Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
534
535Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
536Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
537
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200538Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
539
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200540Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200541Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
542Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200543
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200544Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
545files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
546Include part of #3242?
547
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200548Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
549Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
550Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
551
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200552Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
553t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
554
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100555Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
556Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
557
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200558'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
559
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100560Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
561
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200562Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
563
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100564When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
565in a long line. #5189
566
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200567The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
568Give a few examples. (#4288)
569
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200570Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200571work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200572
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005737 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
574 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
575 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200576Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200577
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100578Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
579read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
580be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
581
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100582Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
583CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
584with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
585fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
586displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
587
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200588Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
589
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200590Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
591
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200592Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
593https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
594
595Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
596http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
597http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
598Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100599- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200600- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
601- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
602 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
603- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
604- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
605Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
606- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
607- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
608Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
609- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
610
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100611Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
612Mar 5)
613
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200614Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
615- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
616 line.
617- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
618 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
619- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
620 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
621
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200622Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
623on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
624
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200625Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
626in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
627buffer didn't change at all.
628
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200629Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
630'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
631(#4450)
632
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100633Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
634window, not other buffers. (#7532)
635
636Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
637modified buffers
638 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
639 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
640 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
641 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
642
643When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
644buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
645Should add the buffer in hidden state.
646
647When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
648filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
649initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
650
651Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
652normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
653
654Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
655(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
656
657Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
658that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
659ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
660Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
661
662'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
663Likonen, March 19)
664
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100665When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
666But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
667similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
668
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200669C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
670(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
671
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100672Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
673added?
674
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200675Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
676negative. (see #4326)
677
678'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
679`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
680tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
681:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
682
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200683This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
684 vim: syn=nosyntax
685
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200686":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
687a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
688
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100689Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
690#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100691Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
692Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
693balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6942018 Sep 14)
695Another request: #3811.
696
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200697More warnings from static analysis:
698https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200699
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100700Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
701
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200702Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
703
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200704Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
705internals of the dict structure.
706
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100707nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
708
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200709Missing tests for:
710- add_termcap_entry()
711
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200712Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
713change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
714them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
715
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200716Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200717Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200718
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100719When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
720case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
721For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
722
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200723Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
724(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
725expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200726
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200727Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
728 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
729 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
730
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100731Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100732punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100733
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200734Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
735drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
736
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200737Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
738is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
739
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100740When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
741scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
742using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
743
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200744Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
745#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
746(Sep 8)
747
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200748Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
749unified diff (list of lines).
750
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100751When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
752kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
753when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
754
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100755Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
756(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100757
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100758Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
759
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200760matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
76119.
762
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100763Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
764highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200765And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
766'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100767
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100768Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
769Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
770
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200771Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
772Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
773Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
774
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200775home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
776
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200777When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
778terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
779How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
780
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100781Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
782Feedback from someone who uses this?
783
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200784Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
785Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
786values.
787
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100788Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200789- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
790- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
791- omit diff.exe from distribution
792- Can we make this show differences within a line?
793- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200794
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200795Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
796
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100797Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200798What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100799
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200800When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
801includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
802
803Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200804Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200805
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100806Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
807
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200808Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
809window for the buffer.
810
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100811Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
812mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
813
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100814Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
815- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
816- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100817- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
818
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100819Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
820Oct 28)
821
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100822Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
823- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
824
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200825Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
826- Test_setbufvar_options()
827- Test_exit_callback_interval()
828
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200829Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
830Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100831Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
832Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200833
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200834Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
835
836Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
83724)
838
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100839Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100840 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100841or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100842 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
843
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200844Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
845is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
846used for git temp files.
847
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100848Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
849
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200850Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
851behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
852(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
853
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200854Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
855pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
856
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200857Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
858script or function.
859
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200860When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
861E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
862does nothing otherwise?
863
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200864MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
865If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
866(wait a little while).
867CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100868
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200869Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
870MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8712017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
872receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
873
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200874Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
875missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
876
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200877":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
878deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
879
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200880With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
881included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
882(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
883
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200884Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200885Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200886
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100887Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100888Jan 15, #2555)
889
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200890":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
891
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100892Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
893
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100894No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
895No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
896
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200897Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
898http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
899Should be supported with a flag.
900
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100901Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
902
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100903Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
904Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
905applying the diff, etc.
906
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200907Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
908Apr 26, #2849)
909
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100910User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
911word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100912
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100913Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200914
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200915With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
916(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
917
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200918Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
919:drop (remote commands).
920
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200921Implement option_save() and option_restore():
922option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
923 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
924 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
925 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
926 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
927 be called when the same window is the current window.
928 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
929 the local options won't be restored.
930
931option_save({list}) *option_save()*
932 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
933 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
934 let s:saved_options = option_save([
935 \ 'ignorecase',
936 \ 'iskeyword',
937 \ ])
938 au <buffer> BufLeave *
939 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
940< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
941 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
942 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
943 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100944 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
945 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
946 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100947 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200948
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100949"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
950directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
951Also see #1689.
952
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100953When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100954highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100955
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100956No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9572017 Dec 26, #2501)
958
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200959A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
960
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200961Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
962
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200963A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
964Mention where they were defined somewhere.
965
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200966ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
967
968Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
969
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100970Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
971Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
972
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100973Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
974in #846)
975Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
976
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200977Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
978Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
979
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100980When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
981redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200982
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100983In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
984(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
985
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100986Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
987neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100988
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100989Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
990Nov 21)
991
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100992When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200993triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
994set_color_count().
995
996Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
997responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
998
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100999When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1000CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1001Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1002always nested.
1003
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001004matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1005
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001006Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1007
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001008MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001009for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1010
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001011Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001012(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001013
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001014Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001015
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001016Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001017
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001018Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1019defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1020Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1021
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001022After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
102313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001024
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001025When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1026line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1027
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001028The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1029
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001030Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1031
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001032Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1033behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1034
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001035'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1036
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001037The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1038
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001039When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1040a command can delete it.
1041
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001042Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1043#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1044
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001045The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +01001046for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001047
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001048X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1049pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1050clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1051Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1052Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1053clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001054Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001055
1056Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1057
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001058Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1059attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001060that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001061
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001062Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1063(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1064
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001065Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1066buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1067Also fixes #2166?
1068
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001069Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1070possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1071
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001072When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1073case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1074
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001075Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1076existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1077Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1078
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001079MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1080Jul 4)
1081
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001082Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1083Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1084This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1085Christian cannot reproduce it.
1086
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001087Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1088wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1089Or is this not an actual problem?
1090
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001091Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1092
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001093Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1094
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001095'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1096#1736)
1097
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001098Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10998, #1690)
1100
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001101Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1102it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1103
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001104Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1105
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001106assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1107it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1108
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001109Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1110for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001111
1112Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1113(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1114Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1115later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1116Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1117mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001118Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1119mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001120maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001121
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001122Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001123plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1124be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1125
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001126Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1127 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1128 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001129
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001130json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001131What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001132
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001133Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1134
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001135import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1136(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1137
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001138Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1139Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001140Another example in #1309
1141
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001142Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1143#1330)
1144
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001145Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1146
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001147GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1148g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1149timer expires.
1150
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001151Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1152highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1153
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001154Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1155Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1156
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001157Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1158key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1159 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1160 echo keytrans(xx)
1161 <C-Home>
1162
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001163Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1164(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1165Make a function to check for function-like type?
1166
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001167Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1168 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001169 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001170
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001171Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1172somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1173
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001174The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1175"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1176Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1177
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001178Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1179
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001180Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1181about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001182Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1183
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001184":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001185vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1186
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001187Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001188E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001189Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001190
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001191Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1192Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1193
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001194Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001195Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001196
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001197"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1198(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1199
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001200Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1201(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001202
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001203Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1204
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001205Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1206anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1207
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001208Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001209E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001210
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001211Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1212(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1213
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001214Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1215
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001216On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1217separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1218
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001219Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1220
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001221Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1222
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001223Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1224
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001225Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1226no longer support.
1227
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001228Suppoert sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
1229
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001230sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12314#1038)
1232
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001233sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1234is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1235
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001236+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001237- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001238- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1239 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1240 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001241- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1242 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001243- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1244 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001245- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1246 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1247- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1248 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1249- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001250- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1251 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001252- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1253- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1254 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1255 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1256- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1257- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1258- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1259 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1260 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1261- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1262 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1263- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1264 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1265 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1266
1267Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001268- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1269 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1270 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1271 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001272- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1273 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001274- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1275 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1276- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1277 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1278- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1279 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1280 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1281 LC_CTYPE
1282- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1283 matches everywhere.
1284- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1285 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1286- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1287- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1288 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1289- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001290- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001291 2013 Dec 11)
1292- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1293 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1294- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1295- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1296 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1297- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1298- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1299- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1300- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1301 2015 Feb 7)
1302- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1303 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1304 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1305 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1306 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1307- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1308- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1309- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1310- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1311 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1312 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1313 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1314- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1315 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1316- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1317 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1318 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1319 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1320
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001321Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13223. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1323Also see #1635.
1324
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001325Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1326doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1327Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001328Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001329E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1330
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001331cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1332
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001333:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1334
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001335Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1336
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001337When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1338synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1339
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001340Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1341Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001342
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001343ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1344Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001345
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001346Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1347Jul 25, #948)
1348
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001349Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1350names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1351Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1352the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1353
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001354MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1355Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001356
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001357Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1358times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1359
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001360Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1361
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001362We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1363the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1364
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001365Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1366
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001367When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1368emoji_width table has only one entry.
1369
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001370It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1371Reject the value? #710.
1372
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001373When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1374Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1375
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001376Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1377No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001378
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001379Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1380(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001381
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001382Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1383
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001384Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1385https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001386Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001387
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001388Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1389but the reference remains valid.
1390
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001391Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001392interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1393Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1394interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1395result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001396
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001397Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001398work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001399
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001400Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1401
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001402Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1403
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001404Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1405Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1406
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001407When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1408Apr 17) #762
1409
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001410exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1411Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1412
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001413Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1414'iskeyword' for syntax.
1415
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001416Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1417It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1418Add configure check?
1419Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1420Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1421Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1422
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001423Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1424Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1425
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001426Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1427Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1428
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001429":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1430directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1431
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001432Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1433(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1434
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001435When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1436restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1437Do not trigger the event?
1438
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001439Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1440Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1441https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1442
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001443Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1444With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1445
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001446Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001447
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001448Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1449
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001450Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001451Only remembers one error.
1452
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001453GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001454
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001455Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1456(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001457
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001458Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1459github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001460 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001461Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001462
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001463Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001464
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001465Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001466comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001467
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001468Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1469
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001470MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1471wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1472
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001473Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1474specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1475
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001476Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1477(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1478
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001479Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001480'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1481before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001482
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001483C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1484and also line continuation after #include.
1485I can't recommend it though.
1486
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001487Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1488(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1489
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001490To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1491library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1492
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001493Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
149430)
1495
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001496MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1497(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1498
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001499The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
150024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001501
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001502":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1503effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1504
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001505":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15069)
1507
1508The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1509wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1510
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001511Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001512Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001513
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001514When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1515the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1516
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001517Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001518slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1519inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1520
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001521ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15222014 Sep 11)
1523
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001524Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1525(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1526
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001527When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1528'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1529
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001530Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1531Work in progress.
1532
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001533Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1534when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1535
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001536Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1537Is this right?
1538
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001539Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1540(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1541Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1542
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001543Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1544Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001545
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001546Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1547Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1548
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001549Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1550
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001551Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1552
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001553Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1554OK to not block marks?
1555
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001556Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1557
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001558When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1559(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1560
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001561Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001562
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001563Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1564(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1565
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001566When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1567any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1568
1569Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001570
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001571Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001572
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001573Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1574(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1575
1576Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1577
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001578Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1579Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1580was already defined.
1581(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1582
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001583Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1584
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001585Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001586Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001587Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001588Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001589
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001590Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1591(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1592
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001593Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1594(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1595
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001596Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1597
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001598When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1599these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1600window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1601
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001602Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1603should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1604history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1605Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1606
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001607"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1608Jun 8)
1609
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001610Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1611insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1612
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001613No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1614
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001615Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1616(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1617Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1618arguments.
1619
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001620Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1621
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001622Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1623right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001624its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001625
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001626Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1627
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001628This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1629 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1630This neither: (ZyX)
1631 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1632
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001633'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1634Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1635from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001636
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001637Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16382014 Jun 8)
1639
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001640Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1641https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001642Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001643Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1644package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001645Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1646Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1647User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001648- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1649 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1650 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001651- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1652- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1653 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1654 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1655 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1656 on vim.org.
1657- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1658 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1659- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1660- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1661- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1662- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1663Implementation:
1664- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1665 plugin separate.
1666- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1667 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1668 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1669- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1670 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1671- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1672 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1673 installing.
1674Out of scope:
1675- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1676- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1677 useful).
1678
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001679When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1680menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1681
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001682Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1683(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1684
1685":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1686various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001687
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001688Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001689(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1690
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001691VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1692instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1693
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001694Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001695Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001696Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001697
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001698Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1699
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001700Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1701highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001702
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001703The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1704For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1705
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001706Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001707possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001708
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001709Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001710
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001711Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1712
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017137 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1714 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1715 "lucida_console:h8").
1716Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1717
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001718:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1719
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001720Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1721
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001722Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1723
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001724When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1725(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1726
1727Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001728Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001729
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001730GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1731(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1732
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001733Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1734registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1735
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001736Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1737
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001738The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1739(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1740Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1741
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001742Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1743Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1744reliably?
1745
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001746Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1747(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1748
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001749Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1750(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001751Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1752(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1753try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1754try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001755
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001756Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17572013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001758
1759Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1760
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001761Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17625)
1763
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001764Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1765carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1766
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001767Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1768highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1769
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001770Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001771
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001772Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200177328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001774
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001775Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1776
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001777Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1778
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001779- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1780 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1781Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001782
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001783Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001784
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001785In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1786process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1787a reboot.
1788
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001789patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001790Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1791Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001792
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001793Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1794not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001795
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001796Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1797Or use expand('<sid>')?
1798
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001799Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1800
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001801Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1802
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001803b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18047)
1805
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001806Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1807compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1808
1809Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1810Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1811vim.bindeval().
1812
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001813Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18142012 Aug 4)
1815
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001816Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1817(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1818
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001819Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1820But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1821
1822Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1823Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1824Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001825
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001826Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1827loading all files.
1828
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001829'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001830
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001831Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001832of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1833
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001834The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1835Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1836But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001837
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001838When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1839is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1840
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001841URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001842- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001843- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1844 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1845
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001846Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1847(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1848Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1849
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001850Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001851New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001852
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001853When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1854for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1855Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001856
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001857Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1858
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001859Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1860
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001861Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1862Apr 18)
1863
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001864Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1865And one for gui_x11.txt.
1866
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001867":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1868finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1869Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1870
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001871Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1872
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001873Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1874
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001875Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1876they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1877
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001878Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1879
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001880Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1881Nov 20)
1882
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001883Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001884Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001885
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001886`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001887(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1888
1889Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1890
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001891BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1892Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1893
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001894Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1895Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1896
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001897Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1898
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001899On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19002012 Jun 19)
1901
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001902'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1903'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1904Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001905Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001906
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001907With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1908(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1909need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1910
1911Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1912only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
191321, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1914
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001915Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1916New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1917
1918Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1919Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1920
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001921Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1922Jan 19)
1923
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001924Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1925discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1926meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001927
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001928"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001929Oct 26)
1930
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001931Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1932
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001933With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1934register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001935
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001936Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1937
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001938When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1939(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1940
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001941When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1942then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1943from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1944
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001945Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1946":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
194715)
1948
1949Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1950
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001951BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1952cleared. See test64.
1953
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001954On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
195564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1956right type.
1957
1958string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1959(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1960
1961When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1962(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001963When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1964following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1965(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001966
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001967When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1968doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1969
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001970Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1971
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001972When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1973indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1974the help file.
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1977Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1978
1979Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1980
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001981"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001982
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001983Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1984
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001985Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001986
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001987Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
1988scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
1989first drawn line. (#8103)
1990
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001991Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19922010 Dec 18)
1993
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001994With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1995number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1996Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1997
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001998Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1999Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2000
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020018 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2002Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2003
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002004Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2005one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2006the match scrolls into view.
2007
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020087 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2009Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2010Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2011
20129 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2013 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2014Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2015
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002016Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2017Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2018
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002019In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2020or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2021sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2022
2023GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2024doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2025
2026GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2027
2028Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2029Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2030
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002031Wish for NetBeans commands:
2032 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2033
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002034Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2035
20367.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2037there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2038do?
2039
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002040Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
204122)
2042
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002043New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2044- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002045- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002046 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2047
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002048"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20492011 Feb 27)
2050
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002051Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2052^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2053
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002054When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2055exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20569) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2057
2058g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2059the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2060
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002061Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2062crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2063
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002064Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2065number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2066
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002067Regexp engine performance:
2068- Profiling:
2069 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2070 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2071 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2072 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2073 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2074 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2075- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2076- Performance tests:
2077 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2078 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2079 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2080 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2081 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2082 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2083 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2084 'hlsearch'.
2085 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2086 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2087 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2088 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2089
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002090Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2091Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2092
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002093'beval' option should be global-local.
2094
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002095Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002096
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002097setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002098
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002099With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21002010 Oct 24)
2101
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002102Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2103
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002104When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2105Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2106
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002107":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2108
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002109'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2110
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002111C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2112checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2113Issue 46.
2114
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002115Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2116
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002117Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2118gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2119
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002120":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2121accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2122
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002123Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2124setwinvar().
2125
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002126Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002127
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002128When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2129instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2130
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002131Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2132Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2133Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002134
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002135Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2136back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2137
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002138Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002139Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2140
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002141CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2142the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002143FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002144
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002145Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2146Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2147
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002148Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2149Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2150
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002151Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2152
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002153Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2154non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002155
2156iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2157Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2158or replace with a character and continue?
2159
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002160Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2161Requires configure check for localtime().
2162Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2163
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002164Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2165
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002166Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2167Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2168path.
2169
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002170Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002171Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002172
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002173'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2174
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002175":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2176like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2177
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002178Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2179https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002180
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002181Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21822010 Nov 5)
2183
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002184Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002185Jan 7)
2186
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002187Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2188
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002189With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2190entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2191Feb 12)
2192
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002193Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2194characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2195
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002196Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2197
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002198Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2199 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2200
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002201Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2202
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002203When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2204Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2205
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002206For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207line argument -noregister.
2208
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002209When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2210missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2211
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002212When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2213doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002214
2215Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2216(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2217Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2218There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2219Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2220
2221":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2222highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2223to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2224
2225Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2226Probably needs a bit of work.
2227
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002228List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002229Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2230
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002231Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2232
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002233Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2234
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002235Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2236Sep 1)
2237
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002238Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2239
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002240Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2241on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2242
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002243Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22442009 Jul 18)
2245
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002246Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2247window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2248Needs more work.
2249
2250Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2251
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2253few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2254
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002255'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002256(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2257
2258Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2259J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2260
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002261When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2262for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2263
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002264Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002266":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2267because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2268ex_docmd.c.
2269
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002270Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002271Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2272
2273string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2274for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2275
2276Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2277
2278'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
227920)
2280
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002281Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22822009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2283
2284Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2285
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002286When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2287indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2288(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2289
2290Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2291are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2292Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2293Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2294that doesn't have a window.
2295
2296When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2297doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2298
2299getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2300displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2301
2302":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2305was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2306perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2307
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002308Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002310Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2311command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2312
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002313Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2314does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2315
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002316opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2317height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002318very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002319
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002320Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002321(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2324char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2325
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002326Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2327Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2328
2329This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2332messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2333es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23342009 Jan 26)
2335
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002336When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2338Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2339
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002340Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2341a modeline.
2342
2343Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2344Sergey Khorev)
2345
2346Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2347part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020023486 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2349 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2350 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +01002351Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002352
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002353After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2354correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2355
2356Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2357(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2358
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002359shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002360'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2361Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2362unix-like shell?
2363
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002364Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2365register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2366(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2369Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2370
2371Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2372make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2373
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2375still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2376
2377"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2378(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2379
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002380MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2381doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2382probably causes this.
2383
2384'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023852009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002386
2387Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2388 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2389 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2390(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2391
2392Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2393":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2394option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2395is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002396
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002397":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2398first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002399Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002400
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002401Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2402laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2403Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2406anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2407
2408On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2409doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2410Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2411Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2412
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002413When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2414'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2415fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2416the buffer to be unmodified.
2417Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2418another look at it.
2419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002420c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2421(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002423You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2424error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2425Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2426at the other match for 0xBF.
2427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2429argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2432backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2433
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002434When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2435line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2436
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002437After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2438(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002439command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002440
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002441":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2442Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002444When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2445either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2446put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2447
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002448Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2449Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2450Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2451Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2452(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2453
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002454Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2455
2456ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002457
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002458Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2459(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2460escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2461an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002462This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2463July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002464Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2465work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2466
2467When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
246831)
2469
2470Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2471work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2472Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002473
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002474Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002475multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002476(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2477
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002478Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
24792008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002480Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002481
2482Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2483Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2484'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2487Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2488
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2490Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2491
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024928 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2493 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2494 several).
2495 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2496 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2497 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2498Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002500The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002501 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002502 0x2217, star
2503 0x2500, bar
2504 0x26ab, circle
2505
2506Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2507line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2508
2509GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2510Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002512Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2513try the Cocoa version.
2514
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2516changed or the window is resized.
2517
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002518GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2519the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2520
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002521Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2522Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002523
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002524Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25251) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002527C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2528with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2529Try to reproduce at work.
2530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002531Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2532Is there a way to list all the files first?
2533
2534When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2535result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
253616)
2537
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002538Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2539(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2540
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002541Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2542Await response to question to make the register writable.
2543
2544Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25451)
2546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002547In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2548each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2549
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002550":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2551Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2552
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002553Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002555Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2556Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2557
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002558Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2559Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2560Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002561
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2563and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2564
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002565Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2566 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2567
2568New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2569
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002570":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2571a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2574other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2575
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002576The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2577appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2578matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2581character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2582'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2583(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2584
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002585Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2586Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002587
2588More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2589
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002590Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2591http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2592
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002593Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2594No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2595
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002596Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2597terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002598
2599Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2600
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002601Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2602but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2603that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002605Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2606Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2607
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002608Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2609popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2610size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2611This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2612
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002613When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2614it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2615
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002616Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2617then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2618files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002619Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2620indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2621":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002622in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2623quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002624Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002625
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002626When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2627parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2628neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2629particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2630Jun 3)
2631However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2632the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002633
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002634A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2635Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2636
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002637Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2638Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002640Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2641switch list is noticed:
2642 switch (i)
2643 {
2644 case 1:
2645 foobar:
2646 }
2647
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002648Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2649
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002650Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2651with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2652go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2653moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2654
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002655Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002656GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002657Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2658argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2659(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2660
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002661Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2662(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2663
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002664Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26652007 Feb 8)
2666
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002667Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2668set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002669
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002670Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2671
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002672Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2673Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2674New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2675patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2676
2677Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2678Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2679
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002680Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002681label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2682
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002683Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2684with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2685Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002686
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002687Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2688
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002689Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2690Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2691only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002693Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2694Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002695Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002696properly?
2697
2698Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
26992007 Jun 21)
2700
2701When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2702Jun 18)
2703
2704If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2707the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2708
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002709C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002713When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002714error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002715
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002716GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2718
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002719Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2720if_ruby.c.
2721
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002722":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2723
2724The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2725it in keep_msg?
2726
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002727Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002728error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002729name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2730
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002731Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2732longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002733
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002734Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2735Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2736Also for ":w" without a file name.
2737The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002738
2739"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2740Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002742VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2743directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2744(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2749name?
2750
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002751Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2752
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002753When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2754(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002755Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002756will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2757
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002758gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2759This also fails with --remote.
2760
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002761When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27622008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2763all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002765aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002767When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2768(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2769
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2771the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2774
2775Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2776Jun 5)
2777
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002778Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
27792008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2780Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2781
2782In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2783but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2784Jul 22)
2785
2786There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2787
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2789
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002790Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2791moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2792that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2793
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2795
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002796When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002797cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2798the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2799
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002800These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2801 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2802 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2803 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2804
2805Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2806partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2807
2808In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2809buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2810reload it then?
2811
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002812For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2813
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002814Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2815only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2816
2817Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2818tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2819doesn't contain other directories.
2820
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002821Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2822Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2823
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002824Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2825 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2826 set background=dark
2827This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2828color is, not reset it.
2829
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002830Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2831start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2832show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2833middle?
2834
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002835Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2836
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002837When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2838current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2839the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2840
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002841When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2842Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2843
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002844Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2845Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2846
2847Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2848
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002849A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2850Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2851
2852Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2853Dara, 2006 June 21)
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2856number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2857
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002858After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2859the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2860
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002863Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2864Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2865
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002866Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010028672008 Sep 29)
2868
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002869In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2870check the result of has("patch13").
2871
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002872Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2873restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2874
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002875Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2876and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2879put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2880
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002881Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2882resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2883
2884In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2885can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2886
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002887GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2888maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2889doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002890Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2891visible.
2892
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002893When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2894differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002895
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002896The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2897be only one.
2898
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002899Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002900"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2901name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2902Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002903
2904Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2905(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2906
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002907Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2908as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2909
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002910Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
291123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002912
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002913":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2914tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2915Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002916
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002917When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2918text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2919latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2920
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002921Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2922no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2923
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002924In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2925VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29262007 Oct 16)
2927
2928TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2929Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2930
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002931Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002932
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002933When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2934typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2935Sep 3, 11)
2936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002937":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2938this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2939
2940When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2941Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2942restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2943
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002944Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29452010 Jun 30)
2946
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002947Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2948'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2949(Kartik Agaram)
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002952Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002953- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2954 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2955- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2956 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2957 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2958- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2959 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2960 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002961- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2962- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002963
2964
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002965More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002966- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2967 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002968- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002969- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2970 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002971- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2972- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2973- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2974 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2975 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002976- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002977- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2978 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2979- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2980 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2981- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2982 21)
2983- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2984 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2985- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2986 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002987- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2988 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002989- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2990 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2991 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2992 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2993 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002994- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002995
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002996Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000029979 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2998 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2999 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3000 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3001 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3002 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3003 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3004 (Alan Schmitt)
3005 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003006 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3007 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030089 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003009 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030108 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030117 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3012 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3013 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030148 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003015 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030167 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003017 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3018- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003019 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003020- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3021- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3022 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3023 been given values.
3024 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030257 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3026 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3027- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3028 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3029 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30308 Add functions:
3031 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3032 Update 2004 Sep 10
3033 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3034 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003035 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003036 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3037 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3038 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3039 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3040 (2003 May 13)
3041 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3042 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003043 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3044 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003045 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3046 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3047 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030487 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3049 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030507 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3051 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030528 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3053 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030547 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30558 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3056 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30577 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3058 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030597 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3060- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3061 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3062 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003063- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3064 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3065- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3066
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003067Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3068- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3069 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3070
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003071
3072Spell checking:
3073- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3074 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3075 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3076 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3077- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3078- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3079 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3080 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3081 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3082 downloaded.
3083- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3084 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3085- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3086 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3087- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3088 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3089- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3090 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3091 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3092
3093
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003094Quickfix/Location List:
3095- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3096 #2999)
3097- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3098 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3099 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3100 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003101- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3102 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3103- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3104 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3105 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003106- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3107- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3108 2007 Jan 1)
3109- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3110 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3111- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3112 errors. How do we get the rest?
31138 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3114 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3115 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3116 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31177 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003118 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003119
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003120Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003121- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3122 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031238 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3124 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3125 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3126 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3127 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3128 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031298 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3130 make Vim exit.
31317 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3132 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3133 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31348 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3135 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3136 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31376 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3138 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3139 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31408 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3141 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3142 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3143 names in one buffer???
3144 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3145 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3146 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31477 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3148 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3149 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003150 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3151 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031527 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3153 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31547 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031557 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3156 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3157 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3158 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31597 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31607 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31617 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3162 to the match with the tag? Option?
31637 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31647 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3165 (Sayre).
31667 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3167 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031687 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3169 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3170 match. Nvi can do it too.
31717 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3172 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3173 line 1\ line 2\\
3174 line 2\ line 3\\
3175 . line4/
31766 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3177 the way the shell is started?
31786 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3179 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3180
3181
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003182GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031839 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031848 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3185 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3186 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000031878 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3188 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3189 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031909 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3191 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3192 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3193 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003194- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3195 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3196 blocked for now.
3197
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003198
3199Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003200- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3201 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032028 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3203 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3204 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032056 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3206 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032078 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3208 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3209 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032107 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3211 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3212 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032137 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3214 2004 May 9)
32158 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3216 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3217 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3218 MS-Windows 98?
3219 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3220 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3221 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3222 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032238 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3224 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3225 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3226 doesn't work properly.
32278 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3228 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3229 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32309 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3231 button doesn't give popup menu.
3232 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3233 selection.
3234 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3235 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3236 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32378 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3238 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3239 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3240 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32418 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3242 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3243 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032447 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3245 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003246 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032477 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3248 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032496 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32508 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3251 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3252 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32538 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3254 know which keyboard is being used?
32557 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3256 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3257 area (Koloseike).
32588 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3259 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3260 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3261 the font name).
3262
3263
3264Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032656 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3266 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3267 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3268 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3269 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032709 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3271 required and it's missing?
32728 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3273 wrong.
32749 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3275 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032769 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003277 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3278 flag.
32798 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3280 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3281 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
32828 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
32836 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3284 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3285 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3286 the tooltips work though...
32877 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3288 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
32898 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3290 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3291 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3292
3293
3294Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010032959 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3296 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032979 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3298 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3299 through files.
33007 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3301 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33024 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3303 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3304 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3305 problem during a refresh.
33065 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3307 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3308 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3309 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3310 colors as it should.
3311 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3312 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3313
3314
3315Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003316- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033177 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3318 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033198 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3320 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3321 (Phillipps)
3322
3323
3324GUI:
33259 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3326 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33279 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003328 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003329 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33309 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3331 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033328 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3333 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3334 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33358 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3336 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3337 of where it is processing the output.
3338 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33398 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3340 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033418 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033428 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3343 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3344 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033458 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033468 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3347 browse().
33488 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3349 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33508 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3351 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033527 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3353 - regexp on/off
3354 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3355 when all buffers/directory is used:
3356 - filter for file name
3357 when directory is used:
3358 - subdirectory on/off
3359 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033608 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3361 to avoid problems.
33628 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3363 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3364 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
33658 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3366 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3367 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
33688 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3369 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033708 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
33717 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3372 visible.
33737 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3374 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
33757 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3376 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
33778 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3378 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
33798 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3380 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3381 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3382 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3383- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
33844 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3385 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3386 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3387
3388
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003389Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000033908 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3391 a good fallback, thus use:
3392 $HOME
3393 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3394 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3395 $USERPROFILE
3396 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3397 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3398 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3399 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034008 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3401 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34028 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3403 Should work like in the GUI version.
34048 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3405 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34068 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3407 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34088 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3409 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3410 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034118 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3412 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3413 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3414
3415
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003416Win32 console:
34179 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3418 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3419 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3420 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3421 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3422 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3423 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3424 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3425 and the file is not saved.
3426 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3427 long name.
34288 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3429 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34307 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3431 besides the console.
34328 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34339 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3434 <C-S-i>?
34359 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3436 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34378 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3438 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003439
3440
3441Amiga:
34428 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3443 sequences.
34449 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3445 backslashes in result.
34468 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3447 all options, using white space separation.
3448
3449
3450Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003451- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034527 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3453 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3454 (Jack)
3455 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034568 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3457 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034588 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
34598 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
34609 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3461 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034629 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003463
3464
3465"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003466- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3467 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034689 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3469 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000034709 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003471 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3472 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034738 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3474 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3475 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003476 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034777 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3478 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
34798 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3480 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3481 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034827 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3483 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003484- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3485 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3487 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3488 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3489 using the horizontal scrollbar.
34907 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3491 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3492 invocations belong together.
34938 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3494 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
34958 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3496 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3497 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003498 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000034998 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3500 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3501 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3503 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035047 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3505 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3506 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3507 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035087 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3509 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3510 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35117 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3512 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3513 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35147 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3515 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035167 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3517 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035189 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3519 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3520 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3521 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3522 script can be called.
35238 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3524 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3525 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3527 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035288 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003529 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3530 configurable?
35318 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035328 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3533 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020035348 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3535 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035368 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3537 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035389 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3539 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3540 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035417 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035428 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3543 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3544 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035458 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3546 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003547 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3548 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035498 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3550 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
35519 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3552 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3553 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003554 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035557 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3556 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035577 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3558 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3559 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3560 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035618 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003562 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3563 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3564 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3565 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003566 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3567 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003568 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003569 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003570 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3571 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3572 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3573 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3574 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035758 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3576 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
35778 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3578 in lines that don't extend into the block?
35798 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3580 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3581 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
35828 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3583 'linebreak'.
35848 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3585 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3586 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035879 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3588 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3589 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3590 'magic' in history. (Margo)
35919 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3592 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035939 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
35949 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3595 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3596 cause another redraw, etc.
35978 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3598 must escape special characters in the pattern.
35998 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3600 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3601 ":w!!" for that.
3602 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3603 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003604 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036057 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3606 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3607 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3608 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3609 clipboard)
36107 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3611 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3612 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036136 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3614 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3615 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036168 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3617 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36188 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3619 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3620 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36218 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3622 (e.g., ":w").
36238 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3624 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036258 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3626 script in do_cmdline().
36278 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3628 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3629 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3630 changes.
36318 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3632 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36338 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3634 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036358 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3636 to skip catch_signals()?
36379 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3638 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3639 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3640 text?
36418 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3642 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
36438 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3644 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
36459 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3646 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3647 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3648 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3649 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
36507 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3651 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3652 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3653 in the list?
36548 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3655 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3656 instead of on button down.
36578 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036588 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3659 character is typed.
36608 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3661 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
36628 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3663 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
36648 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3665 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3666 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3667 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3668 cygwin bash.
36697 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3670 Remember flags for backreferences.
36717 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3672 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
36737 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3674 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
36758 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3676 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
36777 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3678 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036797 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3680 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3681 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
36827 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3683 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
36848 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3685 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003686 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003687
3688
3689I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
36909 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3691 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3692 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003693
3694
3695Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003696- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3697 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3698 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003699- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3700 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3701 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3702 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3703 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3704 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003705 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003706- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3707 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003708 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003709 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3710 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3711 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003712- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3713 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3714 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3715 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3716 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3717- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3718 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3719 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3720- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3721 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003722- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003723- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3724 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3725 character gets the highlighting.
3726- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3727 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3728- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3729 (Jennings)
3730- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003731- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003732- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003733 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003734- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3735 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3736 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3737- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3738 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3739 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3740 (Benzinger).
3741- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3742 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3743 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3744- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3745 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3746- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3747 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3748- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3749 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3750 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3751 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3752 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3753 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3754- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3755 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3756 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003757- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3758 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3759 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003760- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3761 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3762 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3763- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3764 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3765- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3766 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003767- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3768 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3769- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3770 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3771 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3772 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3773 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3774- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3775 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3776 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3777- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3778 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3779 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003780- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3781 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 +00003782- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3783 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3784 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3785 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3786 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3787- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3788 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3789
3790--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3791 *extensions-improvements*
3792
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003793Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3794- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3795 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3796 calling a function.
3797 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3798 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003799- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3800 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003801 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003802- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3803 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3804 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3805 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3806 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3807 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003808 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003809- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3810 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3811 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003812- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3813 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038148 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3815 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3816 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3817 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003818- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3819 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003820
3821
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003822Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038238 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3824 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038258 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3826 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038278 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3828 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038298 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038309 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3831 - change to cursor position and curswant
3832 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3833 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003834 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038358 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3836 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3837 text.
38388 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
38397 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3840 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38417 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3842 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003843 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003844- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3845
3846
3847Help:
3848- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3849 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3850- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3851 to the other matches.
3852- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3854 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003855 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003856 default contents.
3857- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3858 height for the help window (and other windows).
3859- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3860- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3861- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3862
3863
3864User Friendlier:
38658 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3866 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3867 Briscoe)
38688 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
38698 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3870 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3871 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
38728 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3873 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3874- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3875 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003876- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
38779 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3878 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3879 item?).
3880 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038818 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000038827 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3883 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3884 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000038858 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3886 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3887 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3888 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889
3890
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003891Tab pages:
38929 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038937 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3894 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038958 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000038968 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038977 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000038987 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003899 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039008 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3901 tab pages.
39027 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3903
3904
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003905Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003906- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003907 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003908- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3909 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3910 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3911- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3912 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003913- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3914 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3915 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003916- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3917 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3918 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003919- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003920 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3921 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039228 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3923 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39248 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3925 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39268 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3927 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003928 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003929 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3930 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3931 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3932 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003933- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3934 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003935- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003936- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3937 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003938- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003939 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003940- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003941 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003942- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3943 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003944- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3945 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3946- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003947 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003948 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3949 in the affix file separately.
3950 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003951 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003952 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3953 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3954 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3955- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3956 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3957 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3958 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3959 Alternative:
3960 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3961 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3962 affix which is required.
3963- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003964 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003965- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3966 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3967 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003968- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3969 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003970- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3971 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3972- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039738 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3974 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3975 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3976 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003977- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3978 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3979 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3980 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039818 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3982 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039838 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
39848 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3985 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039867 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
39878 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3988 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3989 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3990 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003991
3992
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020039949 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3995 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020039968 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003997 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003998
3999Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004000 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4001 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040028 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4003 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040048 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4005 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040068 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4007 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4008 user aware of this?
40098 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4010 commands skip over a closed fold.
40118 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40128 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040137 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004014- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4015 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4016 missing line goes unnoticed.
4017 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004018- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4019 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4020 smoother?
4021- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4022 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004023- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4024 file can contain:
4025 args version.c main.c
4026 edit version.c
4027 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004028- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004029- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4030 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004031- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4032 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004033- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4034 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004035- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004036
4037Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004038- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4039 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4040 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4041 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040429 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4043 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4044 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4045 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040469 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4047 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4048 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040498 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4050 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4051 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4052 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4053 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4054 item.
40558 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004056 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4057 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040588 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4059 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040608 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4061 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4062 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040637 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4064 so that the user can fix the problem.
40658 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4066 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040679 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020040688 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
40698 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040708 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040717 Searching and composing characters:
4072 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004073 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4074 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040758 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
40768 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020040778 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004078 characters.
40798 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
40808 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4081 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
40827 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4083 'display' option to specify this.
40847 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4085 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4086- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4087 fontselector somehow.
4088- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4089 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4090- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4091 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4092- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4093 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4094 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4095 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4096 if a font exists?
4097- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004098 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004099- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4100 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004101- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004102 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4103 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004104 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004105- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4106 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004107 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004108- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004109 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4110 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4111 But it's very complicated...
4112
4113
4114Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041157 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004116- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4117- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4118 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004119- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4120 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004121- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4122- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4123 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004124- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4125 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4127 units as for the margins.
4128- Support right-to-left text?
41298 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4130 color.
4131
4132
4133Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041348 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4135 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41368 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4137 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41388 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4139 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041407 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4141 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041428 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4143 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4144 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041457 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4146 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4147 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041488 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41499 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4150 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041517 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4152 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000041537 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4154 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041558 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4156 change this for each release.
41578 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4158 pattern, but not in the body.
41598 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4160 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4161 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041628 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010041638 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004164 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4165 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041668 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4167 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
41688 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4169 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004170 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041718 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4172 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4173 used.
41748 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4175 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
41768 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4177 re-insert the [] if possible.
41788 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4179 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000041808 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4181 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4182 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4183 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4184 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041858 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4186 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
41878 Support for deleting syntax items:
4188 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4189 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4190 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
41918 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4192 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4193 a '<'. (Fleiner)
41947 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4195 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4196 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
41977 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4198 detected.
41998 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004200 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042018 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4202 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042038 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42048 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42057 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4206 ":mkvimrc".
42078 Improve c.vim:
4208 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4209 "c_strict_ansi".
4210 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42118 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4212 current line while in Insert mode.
42138 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4214 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42158 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4216 display position.
42178 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4218 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4219 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42208 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4221 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4222 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042237 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4224 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4225 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4226 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4227 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042287 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4229 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4230 E.g. for this html:
4231 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042327 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
42337 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4234 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42368 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042377 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4238 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4239 completion?
42408 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4241 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42427 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4243 select one of the sets.
42448 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4245 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4246 2, etc.
42478 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4248 highlighting (for "." command).
42498 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4250 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42518 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42527 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4253 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
42546 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4255 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4256- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4257 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4258- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004259- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4260 (for comment blocks).
4261- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4262 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4263 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4264 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4265 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4266 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4267 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4268 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4269 (Campbell)
4270 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4271 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
42727 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4273 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
42747 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4275 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4276 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
42777 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4278 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4279 messages. And external commands?
42808 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4281 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
42827 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4283 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4284
4285
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004286Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042878 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4288 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004289 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000042907 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4291 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4292 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004293- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020042948 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4295 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4296 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4297 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4298 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4299 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043007 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4301 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043038 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4304 can be the plugin name.
4305 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4306 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043077 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4308 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4309 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4310 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4311 autocommand.
4312 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4313 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4314 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4315 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043167 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4317 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043186 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4319 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043208 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004321 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4322 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004323 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4324 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4325 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004326 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4327 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4328 3 2002
4329 Only add this when also implemented for
4330 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4331 be used.
4332 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004333 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4334 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4335 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4336 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4337 File.Open..." argument.
4338 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4339 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4340 with properties instead.
4341 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4342 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4343 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004344 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004345 crypt() encrypt string
4346 decrypt() decrypt string
4347 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4348 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004349 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004350 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004352 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004353 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004354 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4355 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4357 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004358 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004359 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4360 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4361 to allow the library to execute a command or
4362 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043637 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4364 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
43658 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4366 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043678 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4368 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043706 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043718 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4372 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4374 option or environment variable.
43758 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043768 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004377 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043787 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4379 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043808 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4381 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
43828 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
43838 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4384 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4385 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4386 charwise({expr}).
43877 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4388 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4389 buffer for this?
4390 result = scratch(string, command)
4391 result = apply(string, command)
4392 result = execute(string, command)
4393 "command" would use <> notation.
4394 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
43957 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004396
4397
4398Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000043996 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4400 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4401 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4402 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4403 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4404 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4405 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004406
4407
4408Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044097 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4410 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044117 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4412 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4413 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4414 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044158 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4416 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4417 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4418 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004419 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044208 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44219 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44228 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44237 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4424 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44258 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4426 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4427 when starting up in a color terminal.
44288 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4429 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044308 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4431 function be improved?
44328 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4433 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4434 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4435 this be improved?
44368 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4437 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044387 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4439 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044407 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4441 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44427 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4443 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044447 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4445 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4446 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4447 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4448 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4449 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4450 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044518 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4452 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4453 using strcmp() too often?
44547 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4455 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4456 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4457 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4458 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4459 the two blocks to the memfile block.
44607 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4461 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4462 with an argument that can be messed with.
4463 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4464 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
44657 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4466- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
44678 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4468 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4469- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4470 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4471- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4472- Do profiling on:
4473 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004474 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4475 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4476 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4477 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4478 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4479 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004480 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044817 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4482 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4483 changed).
4484 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4485 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4486- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4487- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4488 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4489- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4490 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4491 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004492- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4493- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4494 cursor is right of the screen.
44958 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4496 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4497
4498
4499Code size:
45008 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4501- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4502 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45038 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45048 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4505 it.
45067 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4507 left out.
45088 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4509 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045108 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004511
4512
4513Messages:
45148 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4515 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45168 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4517 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45188 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4519 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4521 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4522- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
45239 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4524 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4525 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4526 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4527 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045288 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4529 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45308 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4531 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4532 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4533 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4534 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4535 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004536- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004537 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045388 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4539 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4540 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4541 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4542 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4543 error messages, printing text, etc.
45448 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4545 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4546 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4547
4548
4549Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550- screen_line():
4551 - insert/delete character stuff.
4552 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4553- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4554 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4555- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4556 waiting for a character.
45578 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4558 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4559 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004560
4561Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020045628 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045636 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4564- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4565 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4566 windows.
45677 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4568 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4569 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4570- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4571 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4572 (Goldfarb)
4573- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4574 bound windows.
4575- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4576 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004577- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004578- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4579 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4580 of lines but not with a single line).
4581
4582
4583Autoconf:
45848 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
45858 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4586 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4587- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4588 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4589- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4590- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4591- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4592
4593
4594Perl interface:
45958 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045967 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
45977 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
45986 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4599
4600
4601Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046028 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4603 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046046 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4605 :libload internal-name libname
4606 :libunload internal-name
4607 :liblist
4608 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4609 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4610 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46116 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4612
4613
4614Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046159 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4616 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4617 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4618 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4619 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046208 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4621 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4622 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004623 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004624 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046257 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4626 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4627 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046288 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46298 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4630 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046317 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4632 window for each tag.
46337 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46347 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4635 bottom" search message.
46367 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4637 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4638 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004639- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4640- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004641- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4642 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4643 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046447 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4645 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4646 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4647 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
46487 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4649 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4650 :tagargs clear
4651 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4652 matching).
46537 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4654 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4655 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4656 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
46577 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4658 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
46597 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4660 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4661 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004662
4663
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004664Win32 GUI:
46658 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4666 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046677 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4668 (Mike McCollister)
46698 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4670 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4671 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4672 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4673 common part of the path.
46748 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
46758 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4676 gettext and menus work.
46778 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4678 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004679 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004680 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
46818 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4682 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
46838 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4684 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
46857 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4686 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
46877 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
46887 <Esc> should close a dialog.
46897 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4690 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4691 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4692 prompts.
46937 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4694 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4695 the file added into an already running Vim.
46967 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4697 functions to find the window title.
4698
4699
4700GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047017 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47028 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47036 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47048 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4705 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47069 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47077 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47088 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4709 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47108 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4711 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4712 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47138 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4714 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47158 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4716 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4717 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4718 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047197 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47208 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4721 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047227 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4723 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4724 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047258 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47268 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004727 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047288 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47298 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47308 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4731 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4732 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47337 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4734 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4735 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47367 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4737 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47387 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4739 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4740 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4741 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047427 Should support multi-column menus.
4743- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4744 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4745- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
47468 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
47476 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4748 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
47497 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
47507 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4751 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4752 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
47537 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
47548 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4755 name can be chosen free.
47567 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4757 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
47586 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4759 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4760 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4761 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4762 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4763 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4764 things.
47657 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4766 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047677 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004768 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004769- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4770 where it was started from?
47717 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4772
4773
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004774Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020047759 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4776 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004777- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047788 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4779 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4780 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4781 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
47828 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4783 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000047847 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4785 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4786 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4787 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000047887 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047898 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4790 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047918 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4792 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4793 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000047947 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4795 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4796 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047978 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4798 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4799 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048008 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4801 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048028 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048036 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4804 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048057 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048067 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004807 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4808 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4809 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048105 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4811 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4812 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48137 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4814 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4815 file.
48168 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4817 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4818 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004819- Add events to autocommands:
4820 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004821 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004822 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4823 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004824 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004825 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004826 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4827 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4828 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4829 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004831 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4832 the char.
4833 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4834 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4835 file from CVS).
4836 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4837 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4838 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4839 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4840 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4841 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004842 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4843 changes.
4844 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4845 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004846- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004847 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004848 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004849 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4850 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4851 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4852 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4853 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4854
4855
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004856Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004857- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4858 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004859- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4860 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4861 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4862 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4863 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004864- Ideas from others:
4865 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4866 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4867 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4868 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4869 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4870 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4871 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4872 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4873 Uses Perl for C++.
4874 Uses ctags to find the info:
4875 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4876 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4877 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4878 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4879 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4880 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004881 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004882 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4883- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4884
4885
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004886Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004887- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4888 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4889- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4890 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4891- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4892- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4893 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4894 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4895- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4896 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4897 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4898- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4899 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4900 to force a string value.
4901- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4902 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4903 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004904- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049057 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4906 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049077 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4908 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4909 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049108 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4911 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49129 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4913 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4914 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049158 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4916 - ignore/match case
4917 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049188 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4919 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4920 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4921 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4922 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4923 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049248 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049257 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4926 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049278 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4928 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4929 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4930 Should work for C++ and Java.
4931 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49327 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49337 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4934 instead of words.
49358 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
49368 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4937 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49388 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4939 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004940- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4941 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4943 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4944 wildcards in the file name)?
4945- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4946- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4947- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4948 be in another file).
4949- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4950- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4951- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4952 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4953- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4954- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4955- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004956- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4957
4958
4959Command line editing:
49607 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4961 line.
49628 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4963 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4964 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4965- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4966 lines wraps to start of line).
4967- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4968 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4969 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4970 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4971 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4972 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4973 cmdwin does now already.
4974 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4975 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4976 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4977 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4978 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4979 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4980 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4981 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4982 Problems:
4983 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4984 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4985 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4986 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4987 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4988 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4989 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4990 character in first column?
4991 - Implementation ideas:
4992 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4993 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4994 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4995 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4996 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4997 Mode.
4998
4999
5000Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01005001- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
5002 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
5003- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
5004 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050058 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50068 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5007 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50088 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5009 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050108 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5011 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050127 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5013 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005014- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5015- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5016 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050178 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5018 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50197 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5020 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5021- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5022 identifiers (Webb).
50238 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5024 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50257 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5026 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5027- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5028 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5029- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5030 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5031 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005032
5033
5034Command line history:
5035- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5036 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5037 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005038 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005039- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5040 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5041
5042
5043Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050449 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5045 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5046 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050478 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5048 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5049 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5050 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5051 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050528 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5053 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5054 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050557 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5056 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005057- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050587 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5059 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5060- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5061 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5062 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5063 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5064 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5065 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5066- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5067 Normal mode.
5068- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5069 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5070 are used.
5071- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5072- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5073- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5074
5075
5076'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050779 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5078 char * veryLongName =
5079 "very long string"
5080 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050818 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050828 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5083 long_type foo =
5084 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050858 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5086 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005087 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050888 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5089 func(
5090 new String[] {
5091 "asdf",
5092 "asdf"
5093 }
5094 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050958 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5096 (Chow Loong Jin)
5097 namespace {
5098 int
5099 func(int arg) {
5100 }
5101 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051026 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5103 func( arg1
5104 , arg2
5105 , arg3
5106 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051077 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005108 func(
5109 int x) // indent like "(4"
5110 {
5111 if (a
5112 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051139 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5114 if (a)
5115 {
5116 if (b)
5117 {
5118 // {
5119 }
5120 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005121 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5122 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5123 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005124- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51267 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5127- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5128 line).
5129- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5130- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5131 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005132- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5133 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5134- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5135 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5136- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5137- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5138 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51398 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5140 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5141 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5142- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5143- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5144 lines start with "\item".
5145- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5146 /* here is a comment that
5147 is just autoindented, and
5148 nothing else */
5149- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51507 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5151 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5152 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005153 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154
5155
5156Java:
51578 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5158 Odendahl?
51598 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5160 "[i" commands and friends.
5161- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5162 (Jason)
5163- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5164 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5165
5166
5167'comments':
51688 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5169 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5170 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5171 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005172 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5173 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051747 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5175 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
51767 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
51776 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5178 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5179 regexp is used.
51808 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5181 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5182
5183
5184Virtual edit:
51858 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051867 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5187
5188
5189Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051908 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051918 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051928 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005193 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051948 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005195 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005196 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5197 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051988 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051998 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5200 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052018 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5202 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5203 the end of the line or before a ".".
52047 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5205 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52067 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5207 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052086 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52095 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5210 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5211 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5212 cursor is on.
5213
5214
5215Select mode:
52168 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5217 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52187 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005219 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052207 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5221 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5222 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5223 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5224 normal_cmd().
5225 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5226 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5227
5228
5229Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052308 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5231 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005232- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5233 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5234 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005235- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5236 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5237 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052388 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005239 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005240 where needed.
52417 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5242 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52437 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5244 of each selected line.
52458 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52468 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5247 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5248 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52498 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5250 Ben Godfrey)
52517 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5252 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52537 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5254 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052557 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005256 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005257 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52588 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5259 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52607 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5261 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5262 option!
52637 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5264 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5265 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5266 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5267 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5268 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5269 without changing the column.
52706 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052717 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5272 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052736 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5274 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
52756 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052766 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005277 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005278 or other special character.
52796 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5280
5281
5282More advanced repeating commands:
5283- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005284- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005285- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005286 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5287 "y." will repeat last yank.
5288 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5289 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5290 and/or pick an older command.
5291- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5292
5293
5294Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052958 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5296 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5297 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
52988 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
52997 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5300 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053018 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5302 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53038 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053047 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053058 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5306 entering search strings.
53078 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5308 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5309 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053108 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5311 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010053127 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053137 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5314 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053156 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5316 abbreviations are to be used.
5317- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5318 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5319 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005320- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5321 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5322 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5323 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5324 Or implicit:
5325 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005326- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5327 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5328 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5330 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5331- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5332 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53336 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5334 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5335 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5336 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005337- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5338 non-replace Insert mode?
5339- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005340- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5341- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5342 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5343- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005344 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005345- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5346 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5347- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5348- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5349 ":freekeys".
5350- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5351
5352
5353Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005354- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5355 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5356- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5357 folds when going to another line.
5358 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5359- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5360 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005361- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5362 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5363 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005364- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5365 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5366 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5367 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020053689 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5369 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005370
5371
5372Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053739 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000053748 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005375 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005376 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005377 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005378 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053799 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5380 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053818 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5382 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000053838 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5384 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5385 Perl does it this way:
5386 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5387 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5388 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5389 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053908 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5391 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5392 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000053937 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5394 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000053958 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5396 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053977 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005398 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5399 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5400 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054017 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005402 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054037 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5404 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054058 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5406 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54078 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5408 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054097 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005410 example.
54118 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5412 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5413- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5414 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5415 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5416 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054178 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5418 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5419 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54207 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5421 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054227 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5423 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054248 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5425 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054268 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5427 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054288 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5429 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5430 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5431 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005432- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5433 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5435 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5436- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5437 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5438 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5439 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054408 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5441 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005442- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5443 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054448 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5445 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5446 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5448 i ignore case
5449 I use case
5450 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5451 v use Vi regexp syntax
5452 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5453 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5454 Perl uses these too:
5455 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5456 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5457 o compile only once (Perl only)
5458 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5459 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5460 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5461 following command.
5462 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5463- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5464 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5465 for search string)?
54667 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5467 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5468- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5469 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5470- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5471 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5472- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5473- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005474 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005475 a for the next file in the argument list
5476 f for file in the buffer list
5477 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005478 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5479 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005480 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5481 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5482- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054837 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005484 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054857 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5486 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5487 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5488 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
54896 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5490 effects.
54917 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5492 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5493 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000054947 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005495 Also ":dselect".
5496
5497
5498Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054999 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5500 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5501 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055029 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5503 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055048 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5505 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055068 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5507 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5508 timestamp?
5509 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5510 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005511- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5512 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005513- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5514 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5515 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55168 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5517 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5518 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5519 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55208 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5521 only remember the lines that really changed.
55227 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5523 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5524 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5525 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5527 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5528- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5529 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5530- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5531 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5532 [-99].
5533- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5534- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005535- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5536 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5537
5538
5539Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055407 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5541 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5542 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5543 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020055448 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005545 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55468 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5547 inode too.
55487 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005549 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5550 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055517 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5552 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5553- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5554 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5555- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5556 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55577 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5558 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55597 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5560 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55618 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055627 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5563 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055648 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5565 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5566 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005567
5568
5569Swap (.swp) files:
55708 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5571 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5572 there are short file name problems.
55738 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5574 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55758 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55768 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005577 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005578 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5579 file the same as the actual file?
5580 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055817 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5582 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55837 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005584 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005585 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5586 enough room.
55877 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5588 or /var/preserve.
5589- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5590 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5591- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005592 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5594 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5595 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5596 cached list of which line is where.
5597
5598
5599Viminfo:
56007 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5601 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5602 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056038 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5604 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5605 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056068 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5607 name. (Schild)
56088 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56098 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056108 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056118 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5612 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5613 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5614 this?
56157 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56167 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5617 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56186 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5619 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5620 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5621- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5622 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5623
5624
5625Modelines:
56268 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5627 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5628 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005629- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5630 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5631 'shiftwidth'.
5632- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5633 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005634- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5635 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5636 modeline setting.
5637- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5638 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5639- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5640 .cpp files.
5641- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5642 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005643- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005644 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5645
5646
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005647Sessions:
56488 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5649 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56507 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5651 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056528 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5653 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056548 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5655 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5656 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056577 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5658 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056597 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005660
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005661
5662Options:
56637 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5664 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056658 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5666 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5667 also be supported.
56688 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5669 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5670 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56717 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005672
5673
5674External commands:
56758 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5676 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
56774 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5678 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5679 -f).
56804 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
56814 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5682 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
56834 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5684
5685
5686Multiple Windows:
56877 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
56888 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5689 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
56907 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5691 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5692 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000056937 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5694 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000056957 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5696 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056976 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5698 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005699 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005700 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57017 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5702 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5703 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5704 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5705- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5706 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5707 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5708 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5709
5710
5711Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057128 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057138 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5714 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057158 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 +000057168 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5717 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57188 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5719 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5720 the mark was set.
57217 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5722 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5723 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5724 ":browse marks"?
57256 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057267 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5727 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57287 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5729 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57307 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5731 command).
57327 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5733 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5734 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5735 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57365 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5737 mappings.
57386 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5739 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5740 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5741
5742
5743Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057447 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005745 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005746- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5747 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057488 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057497 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5750 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5751
5752
5753Writing files:
5754- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5755 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5756 shortname conversion.
57578 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57588 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5759 file.
57608 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5761 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5762 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057636 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5764 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57656 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5766 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57676 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5768 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057698 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005770 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57717 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5772 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010057737 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005774 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5775 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5776 waiting for a character to be typed).
57778 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5778 line of the window, like "[time]".
5779 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5780 Automatic and/or with a command.
5781
5782
5783Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000057848 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5785 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057868 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005787 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5788- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5789- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
57908 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5791 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005792- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005793 :s///N substitutes N times.
5794- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5795 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5796 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
57977 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5798 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5799 last line column 5.
58005 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5801 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5802 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5803 (Stanislav Sitar)
5804
5805
5806Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058078 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58087 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58098 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5810 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5811 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005812- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5813- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5814 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5815- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5816- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5817
5818
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819Argument list:
58206 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5821 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5822 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58236 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5824
5825
5826Registers:
58278 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058288 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5829 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5830 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005831- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5832 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5833- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5834 leader when line wraps?
5835- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5836 line in the range.
5837- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5838 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58398 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5840 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005841
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005842
5843Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058448 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058458 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058467 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58477 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5848
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005849Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058507 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5851 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5852 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5853 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5854 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5855 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5856 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005857 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058587 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5859 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058607 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5861 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058628 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5863 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058647 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5865 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5866 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005867- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005868 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058697 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5870 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58718 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058727 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5873 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
58748 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5875 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058766 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058778 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5878 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5879 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5880 in this Vim.
58818 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005882 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058838 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5884 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5885 have it apply to the following command.
58868 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5887 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5888 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5889 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058907 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5891 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058927 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5893 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5894 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5895 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058966 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
58978 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
58989 Support ACLs on more systems.
58997 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5900 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059017 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5902 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5903 (truncated to fit in the space).
59047 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59058 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59068 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5907 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059087 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59107 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5911 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059127 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059137 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59147 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059158 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59168 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5917 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5918 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5919 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59208 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059218 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059228 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5923 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5924 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5925 does something like this. (Shah)
59267 Use growarray for replace stack.
59277 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5928 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59293 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059307 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5931 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059327 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5933 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5935- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5936- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5937- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59387 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5939 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5940- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5941 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005942- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005943- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5944 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5945- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5946 call "play newbeep.au").
5947- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5948 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5949 (Bhatt).
5950- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5951 blockwise registers).
5952- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5953 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5954- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5955 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5956 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5957 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005958- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059597 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5960 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5961- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5962 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5963 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5964 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5965 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059668 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5967 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059688 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5969 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5970 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5971 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5972 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5973- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005974- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059757 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5976 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5977- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5978 not in column 1.
59796 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5980 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
59817 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5982- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005983- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005984 :redir #> bufname
5985 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005986- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5987 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005988- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5989 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5990 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
59916 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5992 console? (Klaus Hast)
5993- Add :delcr command:
5994 *:delcr*
5995 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5996 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5997 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5998 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5999 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006000 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006001- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6002- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6003 characters from 'isprint'.
6004- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6005- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6006 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6007- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6008 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6009 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6010- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6011- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6012 Nvi).
6013- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6014 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60157 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6016- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6017 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60186 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6019- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6020 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6021 macro).
6022- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006023- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6024 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6025- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60268 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006027- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6028- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6029- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6030 if it is not the first or last window.
6031- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6032 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60337 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6034 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6035 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6036- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6037- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006038 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006039 many percent down the windows).
6040- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6041 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6042 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006043 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6045 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6046- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6047 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6048- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6049- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6050- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6051 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060528 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6053 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6054 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6055 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6056 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006057- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6058 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6059- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006060 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6061- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006062 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6063 (Webb).
6064- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006065 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006066- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6067 hex codes like 0xff).
6068- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6069 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6070 the last TYPED command.
6071- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6072- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6073- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6074 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006075- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060768 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6077 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6078 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006079- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006080 trailing '.'.
6081- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6082 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6083 find_file_in_path().
6084- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6085 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6086- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6087- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6088 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6089- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006090 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006091- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6092 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6093 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006094- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6095- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6096- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6097 to the minimal size.
6098- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6099- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6100- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6101- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6102- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006103- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6104 entered)?
6105- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6106 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006107- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006108- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6109- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6110- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6111- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6112- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6113 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006114- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061158 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6116 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6117 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6118 or in octal.
61197 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6120 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006121- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6123- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6124- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6125 insert line command).
6126- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6127- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6128- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6129- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6130- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6131 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006132- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006133 yet.
6134- Implement 'redraw' option.
6135- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6136 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061377 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6138 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006139 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6140 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061418 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6142 do it.
6143- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6144- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6145 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6146- Add text justification option.
6147- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6148- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6149 off".
6150- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6151- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6152- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006153 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006155- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006156- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6157 commands.
6158- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6159- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6160- :table command (Webb)
6161- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006162- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6163- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6164- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6165- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6166- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6167 (Demirel).
6168- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6169- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6170 for use in macro's and the like.
6171- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006172 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006173- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006175- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006176 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006177 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6178- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6179 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006180- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006181 mkopttab to make option table?
6182- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6183 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6184- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6185 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006186- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006187 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6188- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6189 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006190- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000061918 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6192 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6193 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6194 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6195 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061968 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6197 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6198 (Netherton)
61996 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6200 space after "(", for example.
62015 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6202 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6203 (Servatius Brandt)
6204
6205
6206From Elvis:
6207- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6208- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209- Search patterns:
6210 \@ match word under cursor.
6211 but do:
6212 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6213 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62148 ":window" command:
6215 :win + next window (up)
6216 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6217 :win - previous window (down)
6218 :win -- idem, wrapping
6219 :win nr to window number "nr"
6220 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62217 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6222 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6223
6224
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225From xvi:
6226- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6227- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6228
6229
6230From vile:
6231- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6232- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6233 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6234
6235
6236Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006237- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6238 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006239 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006240 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6241 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006242- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6243 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6244- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6245 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6246 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6247 current layout mirrored.
6248- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6249- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6250 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6251- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6252- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6253 font in each top-level window.
6254- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6255- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6256- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6257- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6258 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006259- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6260 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6261- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6262 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62634 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6264 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6265 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6266 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006267 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006268 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6269 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6270- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6271 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6272 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6273
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006274vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006275vim: set fo+=n :