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Bram Moolenaarfff2bee2010-05-15 13:56:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3a. Last change: 2010 May 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar58f0a1f2010-07-17 16:30:42 +020033GTK: torn-off menu doesn't work.
34
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020035Cursor positioning wrong with 0x200e character. (John Becket, 2010 May 6)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036
Bram Moolenaarab8205e2010-07-07 15:14:03 +020037Test 69 breaks on MS-Windows, both 32 and 64 builds. (George Reilly, 2010 Feb
3826)
39
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020040Bug: searching for tags file uses 'suffixesadd', should not happen. (Dominique
41Pelle, 2010 June 28)
42
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020043When directory "/tmp/tags" contains "tags1" and "tags2", setting 'tags' to
44"/tmp/tags/*" doesn't pick up these files. (Simon Ruggier, 2010 Mar 17)
45
46":command Print echo 'print'" works, but ":Print" doesn't. Builtin Print
47should be overruled. (Aaron Thoma)
48
49Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
50^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
51
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020052Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
53Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
54
55'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
56
57":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
58accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
59
60Better Czech keymap. (Stepnem, 2010 May 4) Use if no response from Jiri
61Tobisek.
62
63Use Dutch spell files from:
64http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-nl
65Looks like this is newer than the new wordlist for Dutch:
66http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/1_10/nl_NL-Pack
Bram Moolenaar9db9d9c2010-01-16 14:29:14 +010067
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010068Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020069Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
70
71"make install" installs some of the .info files on Unix.
72(James Vega, 2010 Mar 30)
73
74Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
75Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
76
778 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
78 after typing something.
79Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
80function that resets did_cursorhold.
Bram Moolenaar555cdc22010-01-12 21:31:21 +010081
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020082Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
83Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
84
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +010085I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
86Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
87an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +010088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020089Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
90
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010091Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
92non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010093
Bram Moolenaar607cc1e2010-07-18 18:47:44 +020094Patch for horizontal mouse wheel. (Bjorn Winckler, 2010 Jul 18)
95
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010096iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
97Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
98or replace with a character and continue?
99
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100100Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
101Requires configure check for localtime().
102Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100104Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
105Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
106path.
107
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200108":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
109like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
110
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100111Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
112look into reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
113
114Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
115Only with "vim -u NONE".
116
117Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
118
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100119Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
120
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200121Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
122mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
123Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100124
125Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
126reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
127Most time is spent in in_id_list().
128
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200129Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
130it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
131(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
132
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200133When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
134Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
135
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100136In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
137Jun 1)
138
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100139When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
140not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
141string value.
142
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200143There is no command line completion for ":lmap".
144
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100145Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
146
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100147For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
148line argument -noregister.
149
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200150When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
151doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100152
153Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
154(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
155Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
156There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
157Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
158
159":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
160highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
161to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
162
163Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
164Probably needs a bit of work.
165
166List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
167Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
168
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100169Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
170
171Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
1722009 Jul 18)
173
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100174Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
175Added test, updates, June 23.
176
177Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
178window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
179Needs more work.
180
181Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
182
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100183When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
184few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
185
186'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
187(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
188
189Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
190J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
191
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200192When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
193for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
194
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200195Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100197When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
198
199":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
200because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
201ex_docmd.c.
202
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200203Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100204Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
205
206string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
207for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
208
209Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
210
211'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
21220)
213
214Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
215And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
21623)
217
218Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
2192009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
220
221Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
222
223Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
224SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
225
226When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
227cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
228
229When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
230indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
231(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
232
233Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
234are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
235Ignore window options when not in the right window?
236Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
237that doesn't have a window.
238
239When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
240doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
241
242getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
243displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
244
245":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100247There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
248was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
249perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
250
251Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
252work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
253Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
254
255Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
256
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100257Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
258command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
259
260Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
261
262Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
263does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
264
265Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
266(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
267
268maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>.
269These are needed to save and restore a mapping.
270Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29)
271
272Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
273char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
274
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100275Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
276messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
277es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
2782009 Jan 26)
279
280When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used
281in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
282Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
283
284Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
285one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
286
287Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
288a modeline.
289
290Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
291Sergey Khorev)
292
293Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
294part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000295
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000296netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
297number to be below last visible line.
298
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100299After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
300correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
301
302Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
303(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
304
305Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
306that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
307
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200308Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
309register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
310(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100312Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
313Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
314
315Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
316make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100318When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
319still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
320
321"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
322(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
323
324Update src/testdir/main.aap.
325
326"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
327
328Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
329that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
330ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
331Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
332
333Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
334
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000335Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100337MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
338doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
339probably causes this.
340
341'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02003422009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100343
344Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
345 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
346 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
347(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
348
349Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
350":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
351option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
352is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000353
354Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
35511) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
356in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
357Another valgrind output Jun 30.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100359":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
360first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000361
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000362Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
363laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
364Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000365
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100366Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
367anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
368
369On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
370doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
371Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
372Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
373
374":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
375
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000376When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
377'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
378fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
379the buffer to be unmodified.
380Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
381another look at it.
382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100383Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
384
385c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
386(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
387
388Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and
389"+ being the same thing?
390
391You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
392error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
393Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
394at the other match for 0xBF.
395
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000396Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100398When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
399argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
400
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000401Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
402backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
403
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000404After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
405(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000406command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000407
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000408":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
409Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100411Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
412Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
413
414When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
415either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
416put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004188 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
419 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
420
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000421Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
422Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
423Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
424Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
425(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100427Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
428
429ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000431Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
432(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
433escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
434an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000435This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
436July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100438Win32: The "4913" file is sometimes not deleted. Perhaps another program has
439opened it? Use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? (Craig Barkhouse, 2009 Nov 6)
440
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000441The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
442Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
443Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
444find_special_key() also has this problem.
445
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000446Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
4472008 May 14)
448
449Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
450Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
451'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
452
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100453Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
454Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
455
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000456Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
457Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
458
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100459Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
460
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000461The utf class table is missing some entries:
462 0x2212, minus sign
463 0x2217, star
464 0x2500, bar
465 0x26ab, circle
466
467Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
468line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
469
470GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
471Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
472
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100473Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
474try the Cocoa version.
475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000476Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
477changed or the window is resized.
478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000479Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
480Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000481
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000482Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
4831) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
484
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000485C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
486with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
487Try to reproduce at work.
488
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100489Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
490Is there a way to list all the files first?
491
492When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
493result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
49416)
495
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000496Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
497Await response to question to make the register writable.
498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100499src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
500remark why.
501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000502Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
5031)
504
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100505In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
506each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
507
508try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
509
510Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
511
512":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
513Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
514
515":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
516in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
517
518Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
519
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000520Including NFA regexp code:
521Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
522Useful in tests.
523Performance tests:
524- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
525- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
526- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100527- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000528- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
529 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000530
531Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
532Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
533
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000534Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
535Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
536Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000537
538C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
539(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
540
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100541Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
542":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
543
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000544When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
545and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000547Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
548 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
549
550New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
551
552'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
553Likonen, March 19)
554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100555Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
556other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
557
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000558The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
559appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
560matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100562When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
563character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
564'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
565(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000567Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
568Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000569
570More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
571
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000572Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
573back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
574Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000575
576Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
577No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
578
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000579Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
580terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000581
582Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
583
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000584Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
585but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
586that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000587
588When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100590Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
591Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
592
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000593Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
594popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
595size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
596This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
597
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000598When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
599to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
600
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000601Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
602a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
603isn't right?
604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100605When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
606it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
607
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000608Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
609then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
610files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000611Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
612indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
613":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
614in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
615quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
616Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000618When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
619parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
620neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
621particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
622Jun 3)
623However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
624the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000625
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100626Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
627Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
628
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000629Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
630switch list is noticed:
631 switch (i)
632 {
633 case 1:
634 foobar:
635 }
636
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000637Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
638
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000639Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
640with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
641go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
642moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
643
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000644Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
6452007 Feb 8)
646
647Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
648 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000649 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100650 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
651
652Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
653set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000654
655Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
656
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000657Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
658
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000659Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
660Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
661New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
662patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
663
664Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
665Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
666
667Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
668Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
669Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
670
671Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
672
673Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
6742007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000675Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000676
677Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +0000678label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000680Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
681with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
682Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000683
684Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
685Build another diff.exe somehow?
686
687Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
688pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
689
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000690Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
691
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100692Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
693 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
694Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
695contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
696Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
697
698Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200699Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100700Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
701
702Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar
703Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct)
704
705Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
706Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
707only takes 'shellslash' into account.
708
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000709Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
710Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
711
712Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
713Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
714Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
715properly?
716
717Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
7182007 Jun 21)
719
720When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
721Jun 18)
722
723If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
724
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100725Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
726windows. (Adam George)
727
728When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
729(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000731F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
732modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
733K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000735UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
736to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
737
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000738In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
739the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
740
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000741C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000743":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
744
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000745When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000746error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000748Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
749use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
750
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000751Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
752if_ruby.c.
753
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000754":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
755
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100756Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
757Needs more work.
758
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000759The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
760it in keep_msg?
761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000762Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200763error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000764name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
765
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +0000766Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
767longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +0000768
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100769Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
770Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
771Also for ":w" without a file name.
772The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000773
774"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
775Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
776
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000777VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
778directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
779(Zoltan Arpadffy)
780
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000781VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000783input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
784name?
785
786getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
787element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
788
789Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
790
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000791When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
792(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
793Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
794will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
795
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100796gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
797This also fails with --remote.
798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100799When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
8002008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
801all places where buf_freeall() is called?
802
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000803":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
804Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
805
806aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
807
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100808When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
809(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
810
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000811Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
812the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
813
814Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000815Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
816Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
817argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000818(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000819
820GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
821
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100822Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
823superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
824
825Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
826character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000828Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
829Jun 5)
830
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100831Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
8322008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
833Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
834
835In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
836but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
837Jul 22)
838
839There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
840
841Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
842":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
843somehow? Or use a new function.
844
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000845Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
846
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100847Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
848that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000849
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000850Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
851moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
852that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000854The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
855
856Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
857loading all files.
858
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100859Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
860line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
861after starting up?
862
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100863When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000864cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
865the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
866
867Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
868has been created.
869
870Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
871shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
872fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
873background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
874A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000876These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
877 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
878 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
879 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
880
881Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
882partly. (2006 Dec 7)
883
884In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
885buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
886reload it then?
887
888New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
889previous version.
890
891For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
892
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000893Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
894only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
895
896Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
897tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
898doesn't contain other directories.
899
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000900Linux distributions:
901- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
902 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
903 xfree-xterm".
904- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
905
906Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
907start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
908show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
909middle?
910
911When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000912(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000913connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
914dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
915
916Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
917
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100918When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
919current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
920the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
921
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000922When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
923Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
924
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000925Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
926 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
927 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
928 - getting colors in xterm
929 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
930
931Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
932Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
933
934Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
935
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000936A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
937Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
938
939Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
940Dara, 2006 June 21)
941
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000942Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
943number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
944
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000945After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
946the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000948Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
949Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
950about this.
951
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000952Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
953copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
954error and stop using the connection to the server.
955
956Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
957Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
958
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200959Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01009602008 Sep 29)
961
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000962In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
963check the result of has("patch13").
964
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100965Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
966restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
967
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000968Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
969put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
970
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100971Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
972resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
973
974In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
975can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
976
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000977Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
978to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
979
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000980GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
981maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
982doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100983Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
984visible.
985
986GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
987the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
988
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000989The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
990be only one.
991
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000992"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
993script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000995It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
996the function name before resolving it to a number?
997 let d = {}
998 fun! d.foo()
999 echo "here"
1000 endfun
1001 call d.foo(9)
1002
1003Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1004only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001005Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1006used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1007
1008Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1009output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1010Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1011
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001012Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001013"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1014name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1015Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001016
1017Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1018(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001020Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1021as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1022
1023Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1024Jan 1)
1025
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001026Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
102723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001028
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001029":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1030tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1031Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001032
1033xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1034buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1035Xterm 224 supports it!
1036
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001037When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1038text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1039latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1040
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001041Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1042
1043Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1044no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1045
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001046In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1047VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
10482007 Oct 16)
1049
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001050When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1051disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1052
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001053TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1054Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1055
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001056Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001057
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001058When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1059typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1060Sep 3, 11)
1061
1062When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1063respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1064the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1065what happens for the GUI.
1066
1067X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1068pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1069clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1070Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1071Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1072clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1073
1074Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
1075starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
1076size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where you
1077only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
1078
1079":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1080this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1081
1082When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1083Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1084restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1085
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001086Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
10872010 Jun 30)
1088
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001089
Bram Moolenaara9dc3752010-07-11 20:46:53 +02001090Before (beta) release 7.3:
Bram Moolenaar55d5c032010-07-17 23:52:29 +02001091- Documentation for Python 3 support.
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001092- MS-Windows uninstaller looks for wrong executable:
1093 "ool\vimfiles\syntaxuninstall-gui.exe".
Bram Moolenaar76b96fc2010-07-17 16:44:59 +02001094
1095Before release 7.3:
Bram Moolenaara9dc3752010-07-11 20:46:53 +02001096- Rename vim73 branch to default (hints: Xavier de Gaye, 2010 May 23)
1097
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001098More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001099- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1100 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001101- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1102- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1103 21)
1104- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1105 patch May 10)
1106- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1107 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1108- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1109 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1110- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1111- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1112- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1113 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1114 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001115- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001116- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1117 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1118- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1119 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1120- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1121 21)
1122- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1123 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1124- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1125 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001126- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1127 Sep 13)
1128- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1129 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001130- Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02001131 Where is a recent version of this patch? Or use CSApprox plugin?
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001132- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1133 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1134 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1135 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1136 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020011376 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
1138 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
1139 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2009 Apri 17.
1140 Comments from Andreas Bernauer 24th, Dominique Pelle 24th
1141 Docs patch by Dominique Pelle, Mar 25
1142 Can we put the strings in a window-local variable?
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001143- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001144
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001145
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001146Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000011479 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1148 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1149 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1150 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1151 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1152 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1153 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1154 (Alan Schmitt)
1155 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001156 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1157 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000011589 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001159 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000011608 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011618 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001162 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011637 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1164 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1165 How does this work? Missing comments.
1166- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001167 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001168 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011698 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001170 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011717 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1172 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1173- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1174 for multi-byte characters.
1175- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1176- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1177 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1178 been given values.
1179 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
11808 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001181 with an ESC sequence.
1182 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1183 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1184 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011857 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1186 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1187- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1188 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1189 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
11908 Add functions:
1191 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1192 Update 2004 Sep 10
1193 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1194 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001195 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001196 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001197 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1198 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001199 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1200 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1201 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1202 (2003 May 13)
1203 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1204 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001205 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1206 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001207 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1208 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1209 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012107 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1211 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1212- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1213 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
12147 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1215 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000012168 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1217 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012187 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
12198 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1220 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
12217 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1222 Kotchan has a patch for it)
12238 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1224 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1225 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
12267 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1227- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1228 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1229 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001230- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1231 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1232- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1233
1234
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001235Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001236- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1237 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012388 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1239 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1240 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1241 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1242 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1243 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012448 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1245 make Vim exit.
12467 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1247 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1248 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
12498 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1250 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1251 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
12526 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1253 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1254 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
12558 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1256 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1257 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1258 names in one buffer???
1259 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1260 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1261 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
12627 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1263 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1264 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001265 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1266 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012677 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1268 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
12697 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
12707 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
12717 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1272 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
12737 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1274 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1275 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1276 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
12777 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
12787 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
12797 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1280 to the match with the tag? Option?
12817 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
12827 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1283 (Sayre).
12847 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1285 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012867 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1287 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1288 match. Nvi can do it too.
12897 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1290 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1291 line 1\ line 2\\
1292 line 2\ line 3\\
1293 . line4/
12946 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1295 the way the shell is started?
12966 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1297 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1298
1299
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001300GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000013019 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013028 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1303 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1304 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000013058 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1306 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1307 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013089 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1309 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1310 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1311 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001312- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1313 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1314 blocked for now.
1315
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001316
1317Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001318- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1319 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000013208 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1321 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013228 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1323 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000013248 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1325 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1326 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013278 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1328 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1329 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
13308 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1331 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
13327 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1333 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1334 "lucida_console:h8").
13356 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1336 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000013378 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1338 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1339 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013407 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1341 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1342 to use an opaque background in most places?
13438 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1344 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1345 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
13468 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1347 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1348 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
13497 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1350 2004 May 9)
13518 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1352 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1353 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1354 MS-Windows 98?
1355 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1356 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1357 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1358 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013598 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1360 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013618 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1362 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1363 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1364 doesn't work properly.
13658 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1366 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1367 appears in the right position. (Webb)
13689 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1369 button doesn't give popup menu.
1370 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1371 selection.
1372 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1373 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1374 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
13758 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1376 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1377 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1378 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
13798 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1380 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1381 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013827 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1383 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1384 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
13857 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1386 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001387 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013887 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1389 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
13907 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1391 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
13926 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
13938 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1394 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1395 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
13968 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1397 know which keyboard is being used?
13987 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1399 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1400 area (Koloseike).
14018 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1402 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1403 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1404 the font name).
1405
1406
1407Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014086 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1409 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1410 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1411 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1412 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014139 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1414 required and it's missing?
14158 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1416 wrong.
14179 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1418 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000014199 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001420 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1421 flag.
14228 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1423 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1424 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
14258 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
14266 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1427 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1428 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1429 the tooltips work though...
14307 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1431 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
14328 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1433 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1434 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1435
1436
1437Athena GUI:
14389 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1439 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1440 through files.
14417 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1442 read long file names. (Schroeder)
14434 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1444 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1445 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1446 problem during a refresh.
14475 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1448 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1449 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1450 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1451 colors as it should.
1452 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1453 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1454
1455
1456Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001457- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014587 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1459 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014608 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1461 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1462 (Phillipps)
1463
1464
1465GUI:
14669 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1467 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
14689 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001469 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001470 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
14719 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1472 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
14738 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1474 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
14758 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1476 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1477 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
14788 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1479 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1480 of where it is processing the output.
1481 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
14828 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1483 doesn't work.
14848 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000014858 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1486 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1487 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014888 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014898 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1490 browse().
14918 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1492 use that code? Or use console dialog.
14938 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1494 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014957 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1496 - regexp on/off
1497 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1498 when all buffers/directory is used:
1499 - filter for file name
1500 when directory is used:
1501 - subdirectory on/off
1502 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015038 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1504 to avoid problems.
15058 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1506 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1507 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
15088 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1509 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1510 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
15118 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1512 up. Set erase character somehow?
15138 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1514 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1515 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1516 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
15178 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
15187 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1519 visible.
15207 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1521 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
15227 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1523 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
15248 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1525 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
15268 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1527 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1528 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1529 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1530- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
15314 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1532 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1533 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1534
1535
1536MSDOS/DJGPP:
15379 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1538 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1539 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
15408 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1541 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
15429 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001543 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1544 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015459 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1546 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1547 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1548 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
15499 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1550 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1551 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1552 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1553 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1554 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1555 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1556 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1557 key code. Use a translation table?
15589 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1559 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
15608 Use DJGPP 2.03.
15618 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1562 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
15638 setlocale() is bogus.
15648 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1565 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1566 Windows 95 system!
15678 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000015687 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001569 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
15707 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1571 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1572 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
15738 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1574 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
15757 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1576 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1577 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1578 "[New file]".
15797 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1580 that is supported?
15818 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
15828 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1583 Briscoe)
1584
1585
1586MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
15878 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1588 gen_expand_wildcards().
15898 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1590 Wagner.
15918 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
15928 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1593 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000015948 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1595 a good fallback, thus use:
1596 $HOME
1597 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1598 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1599 $USERPROFILE
1600 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1601 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1602 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1603 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016048 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1605 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
16068 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1607 Should work like in the GUI version.
16088 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1609 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
16108 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1611 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
16128 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1613 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1614 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016158 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1616 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1617 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1618
1619
1620Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020016218 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001622 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1623 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
16248 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1625 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1626
1627
1628Win32 console:
16299 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1630 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1631 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1632 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1633 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1634 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1635 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1636 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1637 and the file is not saved.
1638 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1639 long name.
16408 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1641 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
16427 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1643 besides the console.
16448 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
16459 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1646 <C-S-i>?
16479 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1648 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
16498 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1650 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016517 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1652 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1653 exiting.
1654
1655
1656Amiga:
16578 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1658 sequences.
16599 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1660 backslashes in result.
16618 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1662 all options, using white space separation.
1663
1664
1665Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001666- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000016677 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1668 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1669 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016707 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1671 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1672 (Jack)
1673 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
16748 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1675 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
16768 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000016778 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1678 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016799 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1680 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
16818 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
16828 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
16838 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
16848 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
16859 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1686 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
16879 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1688 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
16899 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1690 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
16919 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
16928 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
16938 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1694
1695
1696"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001697- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1698 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001699- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1700 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001701- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
1702 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
1703 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
1704 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
1705 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
1706 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
1707 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000017089 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1709 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000017109 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001711 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1712 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017138 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1714 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1715 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001716 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017178 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1718 error number, it's not a regular error message.
17197 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1720 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
17218 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1722 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1723 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017247 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1725 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001726- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1727 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017288 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1729 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1730 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1731 using the horizontal scrollbar.
17327 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1733 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1734 invocations belong together.
17358 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1736 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
17378 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1738 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1739 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1740 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1741 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000017428 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000017438 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1744 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1745 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017466 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017478 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1748 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
17497 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1750 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017517 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1752 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1753 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1754 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
17558 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1756 defined.
17577 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1758 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1759 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
17607 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1761 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1762 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
17637 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1764 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017657 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1766 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017679 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1768 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1769 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1770 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1771 script can be called.
17728 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1773 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1774 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017758 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1776 CTRL-C.
17777 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1778 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1779 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1780 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1781 won't work for GTK anyway.
17828 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1783 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000017848 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001785 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1786 configurable?
17878 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
17889 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1789 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1790 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017918 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1792 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017938 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1794 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017958 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1796 always written, even when the original file already exists.
17977 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1798 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
17999 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1800 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1801 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018027 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018038 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1804 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1805 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000018068 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1807 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001808 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1809 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018108 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1811 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
18129 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1813 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1814 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001815 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018167 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1817 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018187 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1819 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1820 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1821 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018228 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001823 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1824 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1825 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1826 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001827 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1828 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001829 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001830 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001831 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1832 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1833 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1834 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1835 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
18368 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1837 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
18389 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1839 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1840 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018418 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1842 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
18438 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1844 in lines that don't extend into the block?
18458 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1846 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1847 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
18488 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1849 'linebreak'.
18508 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1851 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1852 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018539 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1854 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1855 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1856 'magic' in history. (Margo)
18579 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1858 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
18599 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1860 isn't updated).
18619 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
18629 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1863 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1864 cause another redraw, etc.
18658 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1866 must escape special characters in the pattern.
18678 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1868 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1869 ":w!!" for that.
1870 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1871 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00001872 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018737 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1874 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1875 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1876 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1877 clipboard)
18787 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1879 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1880 Waggoner)
18818 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1882 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1883 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000018846 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1885 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1886 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018878 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1888 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
18898 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1890 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1891 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000018928 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018938 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1894 (e.g., ":w").
18958 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1896 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
18978 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1898 for ">>".
18998 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1900 script in do_cmdline().
19018 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1902 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1903 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1904 changes.
19058 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1906 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
19078 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1908 check for file marks. This can be slow.
19097 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1910 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1911 needed.
1912 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
19138 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1914 to skip catch_signals()?
19159 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1916 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1917 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1918 text?
19198 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1920 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
19218 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1922 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
19239 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1924 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1925 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1926 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1927 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
19287 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1929 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1930 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1931 in the list?
19328 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1933 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1934 instead of on button down.
19358 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
19369 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1937 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001938 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1939 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019408 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1941 character is typed.
19428 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1943 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
19448 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1945 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
19468 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1947 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1948 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1949 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1950 cygwin bash.
19517 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1952 Remember flags for backreferences.
19537 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1954 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
19557 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1956 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
19578 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1958 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
19597 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1960 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019617 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1962 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1963 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
19647 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1965 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
19668 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1967 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1968 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
19697 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1970 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001971
1972
1973I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
19749 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1975 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1976 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001977
1978
1979Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00001980- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
1981 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
1982 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001983- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
1984 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
1985 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
1986 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
1987 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
1988 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
1989 (2008 Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001990- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1991 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001992 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001993 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1994 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1995 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001996- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1997 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1998 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1999 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2000 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2001- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2002 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2003 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2004- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2005 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002006- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002007- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2008 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2009 character gets the highlighting.
2010- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2011 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2012- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2013 (Jennings)
2014- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2015- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2016 errors. How do we get the rest?
2017- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002018- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002019 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2020- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2021 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2022 first?
2023- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2024 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2025- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2026 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2027 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2028- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2029 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2030 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2031 (Benzinger).
2032- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2033 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2034 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2035- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2036 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2037- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2038 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2039- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2040 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2041 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2042 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2043 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2044 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2045- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2046 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2047 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
2048- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2049 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2050 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2051- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2052 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2053- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2054 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2055- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2056 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2057- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2058 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2059- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2060 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2061 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2062 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2063 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2064- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2065 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2066 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2067- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2068 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2069 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002070- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2071 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 +00002072- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2073 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2074 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2075 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2076 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2077- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2078 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2079
2080--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2081 *extensions-improvements*
2082
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002083Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2084- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2085 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2086 calling a function.
2087 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2088 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002089- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2090 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2091- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2092 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2093 http://clewn.sf.net.
2094 And the idevim plugin/script.
2095 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2096 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2097 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2098 other window.
2099 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2100 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2101 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2102 in terminal mode.
2103- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2104 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2105 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2106 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2107 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2108 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002109 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002110- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2111 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2112 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002113- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2114 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002115- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2116 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2117 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021188 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2119 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2120 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2121 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002122- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2123 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002124
2125
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002126Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021278 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2128 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000021298 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2130 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021318 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2132 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021338 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021347 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
21359 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2136 - change to cursor position and curswant
2137 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2138 - how it works for folded lines
2139 - how it works with multi-byte characters
21409 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2141 work too.
21428 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2143 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2144 text.
21458 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
21467 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2147 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
21487 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2149 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002150 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002151- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2152
2153
2154Help:
2155- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2156 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2157- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2158 to the other matches.
2159- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2160- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2161- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2162 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2163 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2164 default contents.
2165- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2166 height for the help window (and other windows).
2167- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2168- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2169- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2170
2171
2172User Friendlier:
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +000021738 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
2174 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021758 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2176 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2177 Briscoe)
21788 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
21798 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2180 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2181 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
21828 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2183 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2184- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2185 ":mkplugin <file>"?
21868 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2187 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2188 'runtimepath'.
2189 " Vim plugin
2190 <main plugin code>
2191 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2192 <plugin docs>
2193- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
21949 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2195 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2196 item?).
2197 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021988 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
21997 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000022007 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2201 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2202 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000022038 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2204 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2205 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2206 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002207
2208
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002209Tab pages:
22109 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022117 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2212 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022138 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000022148 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022158 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
22168 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
22177 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022187 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002219 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022207 Add local variables for each tab page?
22218 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2222 tab pages.
22237 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022247 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2225 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002226
2227
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002228Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002229- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2230 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2231 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2232 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002233- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2234 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2235- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2236 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2237 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2238- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2239 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002240- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2241 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2242 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002243- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2244 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2245 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002246- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2247 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002248- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002249 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2250 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000022518 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2252 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
22538 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2254 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
22558 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2256 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002257 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002258 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2259 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2260 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2261 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002262- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2263 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002264- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002265- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2266 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002267- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002268 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002269- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002270 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002271- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2272 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002273- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2274 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2275- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002276 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002277 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2278 in the affix file separately.
2279 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002280 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002281 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2282 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2283 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2284- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2285 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2286 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2287 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2288 Alternative:
2289 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2290 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2291 affix which is required.
2292- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002293 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002294- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2295 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2296 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002297- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2298 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002299- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2300 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2301- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023028 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2303 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2304 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2305 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002306- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2307 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2308 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2309 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023108 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2311 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023128 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
23138 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2314 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023157 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
23168 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2317 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2318 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2319 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002320
2321
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002322Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023239 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2324 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023258 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2326 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2327 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002328 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2329 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023307 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2331 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2332 location.
2333
2334
2335Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002336 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2337 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023388 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2339 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000023408 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023419 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2342 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023437 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023448 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2345 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2346 user aware of this?
23478 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2348 commands skip over a closed fold.
23498 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
23508 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023517 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002352- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2353 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2354 missing line goes unnoticed.
2355 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002356- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2357 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2358 smoother?
2359- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2360 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002361- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2362 file can contain:
2363 args version.c main.c
2364 edit version.c
2365 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002366- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002367- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2368 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002369- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2370 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002371- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2372 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002373- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023748 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002375 searches.
2376
2377
2378Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002379- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2380 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2381 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2382 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023839 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2384 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2385 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2386 byte).
23878 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2388 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2389 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2390 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2391 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2392 item.
23938 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002394 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2395 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023968 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2397 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002398 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002399 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024008 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2401 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024028 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2403 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2404 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024057 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2406 so that the user can fix the problem.
24078 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2408 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024099 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
24108 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024118 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
24128 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024137 Searching and composing characters:
2414 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2415 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2416 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2417 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2418 characters can be manipulated.
2419 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2420 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024218 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
24228 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
24238 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2424 characters.
24258 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
24268 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2427 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
24287 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2429 'display' option to specify this.
24307 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2431 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2432- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2433 fontselector somehow.
2434- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2435 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2436- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2437 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2438- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2439 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2440 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2441 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2442 if a font exists?
2443- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00002444 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002445- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2446 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
24477 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2448 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002449- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2450 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2451 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2452 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002453- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2454 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2455 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2456- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2457 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2458 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2459 But it's very complicated...
2460
2461
2462Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000024637 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002464- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2465- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2466 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002467- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2468 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002469- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2470- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2471 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2473 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002474- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2475 units as for the margins.
2476- Support right-to-left text?
24778 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2478 color.
2479
2480
2481Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024828 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2483 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
24848 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2485 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
24868 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2487 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000024887 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2489 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024908 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2491 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2492 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024937 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2494 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2495 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024968 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
24979 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2498 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024997 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2500 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000025017 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2502 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025038 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2504 change this for each release.
25058 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2506 pattern, but not in the body.
25078 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2508 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2509 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025108 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
25118 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2512 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2513 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2514 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
25158 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2516 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
25178 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2518 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002519 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025208 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
25218 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2522 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2523 used.
25248 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2525 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
25268 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2527 re-insert the [] if possible.
25288 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2529 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025308 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2531 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2532 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2533 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2534 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025358 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2536 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
25378 Support for deleting syntax items:
2538 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2539 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2540 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
25418 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2542 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2543 a '<'. (Fleiner)
25447 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2545 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2546 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
25477 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2548 detected.
25498 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002550 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025518 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2552 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025538 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
25548 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
25557 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2556 ":mkvimrc".
25578 Improve c.vim:
2558 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2559 "c_strict_ansi".
2560 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
25618 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2562 current line while in Insert mode.
25638 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2564 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
25658 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2566 display position.
25678 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2568 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2569 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
25708 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2571 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2572 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025738 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2574 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2575 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000025767 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2577 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2578 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2579 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2580 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025817 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2582 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2583 E.g. for this html:
2584 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
25857 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2586 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2587 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
25887 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
25897 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2590 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025918 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
25928 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025937 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2594 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2595 completion?
25968 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2597 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
25987 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2599 select one of the sets.
26008 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2601 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2602 2, etc.
26038 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2604 highlighting (for "." command).
26058 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2606 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
26078 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
26087 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2609 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
26106 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2611 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2612- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2613 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2614- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002615- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2616 (for comment blocks).
2617- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2618 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2619 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2620 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2621 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2622 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2623 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2624 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2625 (Campbell)
2626 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2627 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
26287 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2629 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
26307 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2631 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2632 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
26337 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2634 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2635 messages. And external commands?
26368 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2637 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
26387 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2639 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2640
2641
2642Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026438 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2644 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026457 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2646 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2647 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026488 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2649 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002650- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2651 2006 Dec 11.
2652- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020026538 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
2654 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
2655 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
2656 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
2657 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
2658 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000026597 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2660 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026618 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
26628 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2663 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2664 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2665 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2666 nested packages?
2667 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2668 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2669 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026707 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2671 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2672 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2673 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2674 autocommand.
2675 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2676 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2677 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2678 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026797 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2680 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026816 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2682 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026838 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002684 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2685 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2686 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2687 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2688 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2689 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2690 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00002691 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2692 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2693 3 2002
2694 Only add this when also implemented for
2695 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2696 be used.
2697 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00002698 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2699 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2700 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2701 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2702 File.Open..." argument.
2703 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2704 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2705 with properties instead.
2706 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2707 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2708 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002709 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002710 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002711 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002712 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002713 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002714 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002715 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2716 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002717 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2718 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002719 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002720 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2721 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002722 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2723 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2724 to allow the library to execute a command or
2725 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027267 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2727 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
27288 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2729 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027308 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2731 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027328 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027337 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2734 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
27356 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027368 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2737 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027388 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2739 option or environment variable.
27408 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027418 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002742 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027437 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2744 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027458 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2746 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
27478 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
27488 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2749 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2750 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2751 charwise({expr}).
27527 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2753 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2754 buffer for this?
2755 result = scratch(string, command)
2756 result = apply(string, command)
2757 result = execute(string, command)
2758 "command" would use <> notation.
2759 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
27607 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
27617 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2762 option for the search path. (Sekera)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002763
2764
2765Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000027666 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2767 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2768 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2769 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2770 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2771 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2772 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002773
2774
2775Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000027767 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2777 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
27788 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2779 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2780 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2781 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02002782 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027838 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2784 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2785 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027868 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
27879 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
27888 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
27897 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2790 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
27918 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2792 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2793 when starting up in a color terminal.
27948 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2795 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027968 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2797 function be improved?
27988 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2799 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2800 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2801 this be improved?
28028 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2803 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028047 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2805 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028067 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2807 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
28087 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2809 lot of abbreviations).
28107 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
28117 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2812 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2813 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2814 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2815 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2816 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2817 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
28188 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2819 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2820 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2821 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
28228 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2823 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2824 using strcmp() too often?
28257 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2826 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2827 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2828 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2829 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2830 the two blocks to the memfile block.
28317 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2832 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2833 with an argument that can be messed with.
2834 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2835 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
28367 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2837- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
28388 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2839 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2840- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2841 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2842- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2843- Do profiling on:
2844 - :g/pat/normal cmd
2845 - 1000ii<Esc>
2846 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2847 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2848 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2849 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2850 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2851 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002852 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028537 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2854 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2855 changed).
2856 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2857 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2858- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2859- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2860 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2861- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2862 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2863 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2864- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2865 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2866- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2867- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2868 cursor is right of the screen.
28698 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2870 CTRL-C (it's slow).
2871
2872
2873Code size:
28748 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2875- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2876 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
28778 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
28788 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2879 it.
28807 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2881 left out.
28828 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2883 can be removed.
28848 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2885
2886
2887Messages:
28888 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2889 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
28908 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2891 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
28928 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2893 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002894- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2895 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2896- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028978 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2898 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028999 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2900 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2901 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2902 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2903 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029048 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2905 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
29068 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2907 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2908 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2909 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2910 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2911 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002912- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002913 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029148 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2915 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2916 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2917 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2918 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2919 error messages, printing text, etc.
29208 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2921 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2922 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2923
2924
2925Screen updating:
29267 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2927 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2928 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2929- screen_line():
2930 - insert/delete character stuff.
2931 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2932- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2933 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2934- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2935 waiting for a character.
29368 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2937 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2938 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
29397 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002940
2941
2942Scrolling:
29438 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
29446 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2945- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2946 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2947 windows.
29487 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2949 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2950 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2951- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2952 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2953 (Goldfarb)
2954- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2955 bound windows.
2956- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2957 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00002958- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002959- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2960 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2961 of lines but not with a single line).
2962
2963
2964Autoconf:
29658 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
29668 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2967 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2968- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2969 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2970- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2971- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2972- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2973
2974
2975Perl interface:
29768 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029777 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
29787 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
29796 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2980
2981
2982Shared libraries:
29836 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2984 :libload internal-name libname
2985 :libunload internal-name
2986 :liblist
2987 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2988 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2989 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
29906 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2991
2992
2993Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000029949 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
2995 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
2996 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
2997 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
2998 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000029998 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3000 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3001 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003002 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003003 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000030048 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3005 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3006 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003007 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3008 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3009 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000030107 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3011 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3012 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030138 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
30148 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3015 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030167 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3017 window for each tag.
30187 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
30197 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3020 bottom" search message.
30217 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3022 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3023 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003024- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3025- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003026- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3027 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3028 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030297 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3030 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3031 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3032 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
30337 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3034 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3035 :tagargs clear
3036 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3037 matching).
30387 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3039 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3040 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3041 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
30427 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3043 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
30447 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3045 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3046 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003047
3048
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003049Win32 GUI:
30508 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3051 the message and input?
30527 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3053 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3054 dynamically?
30557 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3056 (Mike McCollister)
30578 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3058 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3059 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3060 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3061 common part of the path.
30628 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
30638 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3064 gettext and menus work.
30658 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3066 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003067 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003068 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
30698 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3070 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
30718 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3072 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
30737 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3074 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
30757 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
30767 <Esc> should close a dialog.
30777 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3078 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3079 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3080 prompts.
30817 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3082 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3083 the file added into an already running Vim.
30847 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3085 functions to find the window title.
3086
3087
3088GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030898 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3090- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3091 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
30927 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
30938 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
30946 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
30958 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3096 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
30979 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
30987 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
30998 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3100 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
31018 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3102 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3103 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
31048 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3105 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
31068 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3107 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3108 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3109 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031107 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
31118 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3112 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000031137 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3114 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3115 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031168 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
31178 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003118 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031198 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
31208 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
31218 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3122 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3123 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
31247 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3125 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3126 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
31277 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3128 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
31297 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3130 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3131 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3132 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
31337 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3134 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
31357 Should support multi-column menus.
3136- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3137 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3138- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
31398 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
31406 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3141 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
31427 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
31437 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3144 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3145 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
31467 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
31478 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3148 name can be chosen free.
31497 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3150 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
31516 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3152 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3153 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3154 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3155 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3156 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3157 things.
31587 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3159 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031607 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003161 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003162- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3163 where it was started from?
31647 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3165
3166
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003167Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003168- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010031698 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3170 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3171 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3172 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
31738 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3174 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000031757 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3176 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3177 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3178 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031798 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
3180 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000031817 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031828 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3183 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031848 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3185 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3186 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031877 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3188 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3189 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031908 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3191 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3192 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031937 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3194 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031958 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3196 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031978 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031986 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3199 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032007 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032017 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3202 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3203 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3204 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
32055 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3206 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3207 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
32087 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3209 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3210 file.
32118 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3212 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3213 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003214- Add events to autocommands:
3215 Error - When an error happens
3216 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003217 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003218 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3219 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003220 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003221 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003222 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3223 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003224 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003225 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003226 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003227 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3228 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3229 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3230 window title)
3231 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
3232 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
3233 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
3234 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
3235 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
3236 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
3237 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
3238 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3239 the char.
3240 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3241 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3242 file from CVS).
3243 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3244 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3245 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3246 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3247 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3248 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003249 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3250 changes.
3251 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3252 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003253- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003254 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003255 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003256 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3257 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3258 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3259 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3260 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3261
3262
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003263Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003264- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3265 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003266- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3267 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3268 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3269 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3270 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003271- Ideas from others:
3272 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3273 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3274 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3275 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3276 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3277 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3278 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3279 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3280 Uses Perl for C++.
3281 Uses ctags to find the info:
3282 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3283 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3284 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3285 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3286 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3287 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003288 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003289 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3290- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3291
3292
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003293Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003294- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000032957 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3296 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000032977 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3298 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3299 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033008 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3301 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
33029 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3303 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3304 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033058 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3306 - ignore/match case
3307 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033088 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3309 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3310 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3311 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3312 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3313 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033148 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000033157 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3316 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033178 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3318 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3319 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3320 Should work for C++ and Java.
3321 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
33227 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
33237 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3324 instead of words.
33258 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
33268 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3327 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
33288 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3329 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003330- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3331 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003332- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3333 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3334 wildcards in the file name)?
3335- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3336- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3337- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3338 be in another file).
3339- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3340- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3341- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3342 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3343- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3344- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3345- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003346- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3347
3348
3349Command line editing:
33507 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3351 line.
33528 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3353 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3354 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3355- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3356 lines wraps to start of line).
3357- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3358 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3359 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3360 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3361 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3362 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3363 cmdwin does now already.
3364 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3365 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3366 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3367 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3368 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3369 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3370 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3371 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3372 Problems:
3373 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3374 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3375 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3376 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3377 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3378 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3379 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3380 character in first column?
3381 - Implementation ideas:
3382 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3383 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3384 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3385 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3386 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3387 Mode.
3388
3389
3390Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033918 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033928 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
33938 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3394 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
33958 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3396 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033978 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3398 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033997 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3400 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003401- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3402- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3403 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034048 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3405 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
34067 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3407 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3408- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3409 identifiers (Webb).
34108 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3411 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
34127 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3413 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3414- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3415 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3416- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3417 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3418 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003419
3420
3421Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000034229 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3423 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3424 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003425- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3426 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3427 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3428 completely resulted from one mapping.
3429- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3430 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3431
3432
3433Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000034349 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3435 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3436 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034378 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3438 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3439 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3440 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3441 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034428 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3443 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3444 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034457 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3446 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003447- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034487 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3449 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3450- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3451 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3452 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3453 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3454 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3455 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3456- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3457 Normal mode.
3458- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3459 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3460 are used.
3461- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3462- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3463- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3464
3465
3466'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034679 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3468 cout << "a"
3469 << ") :"
3470 << "y";
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010034719 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3472 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034738 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034748 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3475 long_type foo =
3476 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034778 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3478 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003479 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034808 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3481 func(
3482 new String[] {
3483 "asdf",
3484 "asdf"
3485 }
3486 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010034878 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3488 (Chow Loong Jin)
3489 namespace {
3490 int
3491 func(int arg) {
3492 }
3493 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034946 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3495 func( arg1
3496 , arg2
3497 , arg3
3498 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000034997 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003500 func(
3501 int x) // indent like "(4"
3502 {
3503 if (a
3504 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035059 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3506 if (a)
3507 {
3508 if (b)
3509 {
3510 // {
3511 }
3512 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003513 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3514 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3515 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003516- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003517 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
35187 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3519- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3520 line).
3521- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3522- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3523 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
35247 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3525- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3526 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3527- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3528 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3529- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3530- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3531 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
35328 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3533 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3534 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3535- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3536- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3537 lines start with "\item".
3538- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3539 /* here is a comment that
3540 is just autoindented, and
3541 nothing else */
3542- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
35437 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3544 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3545 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003546 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3547 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003548
3549
3550Java:
35518 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3552 Odendahl?
35538 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3554 "[i" commands and friends.
3555- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3556 (Jason)
3557- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3558 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3559
3560
3561'comments':
35628 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3563 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3564 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3565 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003566 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3567 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035687 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3569 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
35707 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
35716 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3572 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3573 regexp is used.
35748 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3575 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3576
3577
3578Virtual edit:
35798 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035807 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3581
3582
3583Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035848 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035858 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000035868 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003587 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035888 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3589 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003590 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3591 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035928 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035937 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3594 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035958 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3596 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035978 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3598 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3599 the end of the line or before a ".".
36007 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3601 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
36027 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3603 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036046 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
36055 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3606 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3607 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3608 cursor is on.
3609
3610
3611Select mode:
36128 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3613 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
36147 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3615 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
36167 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3617 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3618 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3619 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3620 normal_cmd().
3621 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3622 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3623
3624
3625Visual mode:
3626- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3627 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3628 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003629- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3630 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3631 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036328 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003633 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634 where needed.
36357 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3636 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
36377 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3638 of each selected line.
36398 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
36408 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3641 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3642 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
36438 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3644 Ben Godfrey)
36457 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3646 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
36477 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3648 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
36497 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3650 Young is working on this)
36517 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003652 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
36548 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3655 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
36567 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3657 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3658 option!
36597 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3660 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3661 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3662 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3663 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3664 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3665 without changing the column.
36666 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036677 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3668 current buffer.
36697 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
36706 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3671 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
36726 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036736 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003674 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003675 or other special character.
36766 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3677
3678
3679More advanced repeating commands:
3680- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036817 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003682 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003683- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003684- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003685 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3686 "y." will repeat last yank.
3687 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3688 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3689 and/or pick an older command.
3690- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3691
3692
3693Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036948 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3695 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3696 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
36978 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
36987 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3699 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037008 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3701 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
37028 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000037037 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037048 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3705 entering search strings.
37068 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3707 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3708 not the <Space>.
37098 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
37108 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3711 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3713 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3714 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
37157 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
37167 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003717 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003718 option.
37197 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3720 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
37217 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3722 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3723 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037246 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3725 abbreviations are to be used.
3726- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3727 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3728 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003729- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3730 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3731 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3732 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3733 Or implicit:
3734 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003735- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3736- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3737 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3738 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003739- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3740 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3741- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3742 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3743- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3744 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
37456 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3746 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3747 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3748 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003749- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3750 non-replace Insert mode?
3751- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3753- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3754 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3755- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003756 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003757- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3758 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3759- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3760- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3761 ":freekeys".
3762- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3763
3764
3765Incsearch:
3766- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3767- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3768 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3769 up every time.
3770- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3771 folds when going to another line.
3772- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3773 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3774 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3775 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3776- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3777 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3778
3779
3780Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000037818 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00003782 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003783 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003784 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003785 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010037869 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3787 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000037888 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3789 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3790 Perl does it this way:
3791 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3792 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3793 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3794 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037958 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3796 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3797 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010037988 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
3799 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
3800 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000038017 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3802 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038038 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3804 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038057 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3807 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3808 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
38097 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3810 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038117 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003812 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038137 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3814 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038158 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3816 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
38178 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3818 line.
38197 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3820 example.
38218 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3822 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3823- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3824 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3825 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3826 Alternative: use matchit.vim
38278 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
38288 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3829 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3830 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
38317 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3832 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000038337 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3834 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038358 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3836 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038378 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3838 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038398 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3840 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3841 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3842 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003843- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3844 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003845- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3846 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3847- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3848 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3849 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3850 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038518 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3852 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3854 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038558 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3856 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3857 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003858- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3859 i ignore case
3860 I use case
3861 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3862 v use Vi regexp syntax
3863 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3864 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3865 Perl uses these too:
3866 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3867 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3868 o compile only once (Perl only)
3869 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3870 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3871 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3872 following command.
3873 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3874- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3875 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3876 for search string)?
38777 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3878 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3879- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3880 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3881- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3882 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3883- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3884- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003885 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003886 a for the next file in the argument list
3887 f for file in the buffer list
3888 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003889 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3890 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003891 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3892 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3893- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038947 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003895 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038967 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3897 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3898 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3899 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
39006 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3901 effects.
39027 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3903 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3904 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039057 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003906 Also ":dselect".
3907
3908
3909Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039109 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3911 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020039128 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
3913 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
3914 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
39158 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3916 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039178 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3918 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3919 timestamp?
3920 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3921 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039228 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3923 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3924 was changed outside of Vim.
3925 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3926 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02003927 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
3928 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
3929 OR: before unloading, write a backup file with the current text, as if
3930 doing ":w" twice before reloading.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003931- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3932 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003933- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3934 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3935 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
39368 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3937 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3938 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3939 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
39408 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3941 only remember the lines that really changed.
39427 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3943 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3944 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3945 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003946- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3947 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3948- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3949 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3950- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3951 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3952 [-99].
3953- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3954- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003955- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3956 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
3957
3958
3959Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039607 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
3961 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
3962 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
3963 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
39648 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
3965 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
39668 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
3967 inode too.
39687 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003969 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
3970 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039717 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
3972 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
3973- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
3974 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
3975- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
3976 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
39777 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
3978 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
39797 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
3980 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
39818 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000039828 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003983 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
39847 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
3985 internal use and for when executing an external program?
3986
3987
3988Swap (.swp) files:
39898 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
3990 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
3991 there are short file name problems.
39928 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3993 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
39948 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
39958 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003996 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003997 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
3998 file the same as the actual file?
3999 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040007 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4001 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
40027 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004003 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4005 enough room.
40067 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4007 or /var/preserve.
4008- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4009 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4010- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4011 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4012- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4013 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4014 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4015 cached list of which line is where.
4016
4017
4018Viminfo:
40197 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4020 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4021 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040228 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4023 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4024 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040258 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4026 name. (Schild)
40278 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
40288 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040298 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040308 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4031 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4032 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4033 this?
40347 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
40357 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4036 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
40376 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4038 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4039 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4040- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4041 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4042
4043
4044Modelines:
40458 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4046 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4047 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004048- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4049 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4050 'shiftwidth'.
4051- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4052 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004053- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4054 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4055 modeline setting.
4056- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4057 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4058- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4059 .cpp files.
4060- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4061 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4062- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4063 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4064
4065
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004066Sessions:
40678 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4068 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
40697 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4070 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040718 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4072 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4074 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4075 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000040767 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4077 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000040787 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004079
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004080
4081Options:
40827 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4083 restore it after the command has executed.
40847 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4085 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4086 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4088 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4089 also be supported.
40908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4091 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4092 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
40937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
40947 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4095 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004096
4097
4098External commands:
40998 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4100 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
41014 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4102 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4103 -f).
41044 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
41054 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4106 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
41074 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4108
4109
4110Multiple Windows:
41117 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
41128 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4113 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
41147 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4115 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4116 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041177 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4118 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000041197 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4120 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041216 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4122 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004123 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004124 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
41257 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4126 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4127 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4128 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4129- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4130 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4131 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4132 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4133
4134
4135Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041368 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041378 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4138 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041398 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 +000041408 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4141 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
41428 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4143 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4144 the mark was set.
41457 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4146 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4147 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4148 ":browse marks"?
41496 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041507 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4151 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
41527 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4153 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
41547 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4155 command).
41567 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4157 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4158 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4159 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
41605 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4161 mappings.
41626 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4163 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4164 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4165
4166
4167Digraphs:
41687 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4169 Also the keymap?
4170- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4171 below/above).
4172- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4173 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000041748 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041757 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4176 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4177
4178
4179Writing files:
4180- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4181 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4182 shortname conversion.
41838 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
41848 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4185 file.
41868 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4187 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4188 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
41897 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
4190 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
41916 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4192 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
41936 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4194 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
41956 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4196 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041978 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
41997 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4200 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
42017 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4202 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4203 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4204 waiting for a character to be typed).
42058 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4206 line of the window, like "[time]".
4207 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4208 Automatic and/or with a command.
4209
4210
4211Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000042128 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4213 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042148 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4216- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4217- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
42188 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4219 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004220- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004221 :s///N substitutes N times.
4222- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4223 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4224 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
42257 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4226 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4227 last line column 5.
42285 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4229 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4230 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4231 (Stanislav Sitar)
4232
4233
4234Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
42367 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
42378 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4238 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4239 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004240- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4241- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4242 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4243- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4244- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4245
4246
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004247Argument list:
42486 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4249 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4250 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
42516 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4252
4253
4254Registers:
42558 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
42568 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4257 around in windows.
42588 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4259 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4260 for every line.
42616 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4262 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4263 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4264- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4265 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4266- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4267 leader when line wraps?
4268- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4269 line in the range.
4270- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4271 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
42728 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4273 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004274
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004275
4276Debug mode:
42777 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
42788 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000042798 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042807 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004281 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4282 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4283 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
42857 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4286
4287
4288Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042898 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4290 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000042917 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4292 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4293 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4294 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4295 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4296 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4297 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004298 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000042997 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4300 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000043017 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4302 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043038 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4304 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043057 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4306 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4307 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004308- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004309 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043107 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4311 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043127 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4313 window as a buffer-tab selection.
43148 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043156 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
43167 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4317 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4318 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004319 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4320 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043217 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4322 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
43238 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4324 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043256 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043268 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4327 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4328 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4329 in this Vim.
43308 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004331 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043328 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4333 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4334 have it apply to the following command.
43358 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4336 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4337 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4338 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043397 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4340 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043417 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4342 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4343 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4344 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043456 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
43468 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
43479 Support ACLs on more systems.
43487 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4349 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043507 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4351 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4352 (truncated to fit in the space).
43537 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
43548 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
43558 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4356 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000043577 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004358 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
43597 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4360 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043617 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043627 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
43637 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043648 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
43658 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4366 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4367 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4368 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
43698 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
43706 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4371 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004372 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043748 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4375 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4376 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4377 does something like this. (Shah)
43787 Use growarray for replace stack.
43797 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4380 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
43813 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043827 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4383 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004384- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4385- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4386- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4387- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
43887 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4389 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4390- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4391 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4392- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4393- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4394 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4395- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4396 call "play newbeep.au").
4397- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4398 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4399 (Bhatt).
4400- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4401 blockwise registers).
4402- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4403 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4404- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4405 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4406 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4407 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004408- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044097 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4410 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4411- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4412 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4413 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4414 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4415 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044168 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4417 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044188 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4419 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4420 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4421 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4422 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4423- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004424- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044257 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4426 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4427- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4428 not in column 1.
44296 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4430 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
44317 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4432- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004433- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004434 :redir #> bufname
4435 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004436- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4437 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004438- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4439 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4440 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
44416 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4442 console? (Klaus Hast)
4443- Add :delcr command:
4444 *:delcr*
4445 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4446 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4447 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4448 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4449 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4450 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4451- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4452- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4453 characters from 'isprint'.
4454- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4455- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4456 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4457- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4458 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4459 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4460- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4461- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4462 Nvi).
4463- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4464 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
44657 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4466- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4467 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
44686 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4469- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4470 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4471 macro).
4472- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004473- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4474 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4475- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
44768 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4477- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4478- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4479- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4480- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4481 if it is not the first or last window.
4482- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4483 there is one) instead of the file itself.
44847 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4485 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4486 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4487- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4488- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004489 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004490 many percent down the windows).
4491- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4492 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4493 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4494- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4495 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4496- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4497 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4498- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4499- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4500- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4501 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045028 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4503 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4504 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4505 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4506 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004507- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4508 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4509- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004510 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4511- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004512 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4513 (Webb).
4514- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004515 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004516- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4517 hex codes like 0xff).
4518- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4519 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4520 the last TYPED command.
4521- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4522- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4523- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4524 should also work?
4525- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
45268 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4527 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4528 name.
4529- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4530 trailing '.'.
4531- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4532 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4533 find_file_in_path().
4534- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4535 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4536- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4537- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4538 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4539- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004540 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004541- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4542 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4543 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004544- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004545 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4546- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4547- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4548- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4549 to the minimal size.
4550- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4551- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4552- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4553- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4554- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4555- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4556- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4557 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4558- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4559 entered)?
4560- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4561 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004562- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4564- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4565- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4566- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4567- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4568 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004569- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045708 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4571 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4572 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4573 or in octal.
45747 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4575 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004576- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004577 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4578- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4579- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4580 insert line command).
4581- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4582- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4583- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4584- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4585- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4586 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004587- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004588 yet.
4589- Implement 'redraw' option.
4590- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4591 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045927 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4593 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004594 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4595 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045968 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4597 do it.
4598- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4599- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4600 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4601- Add text justification option.
4602- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4603- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4604 off".
4605- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4606- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4607- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004608 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004609- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004610- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4612- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4613 commands.
4614- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4615- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4616- :table command (Webb)
4617- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4619- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4620- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4621- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4622- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4623 (Demirel).
4624- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4625- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4626 for use in macro's and the like.
4627- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004628 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004629- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004630 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4631- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4632 read-only mode).
4633- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004634 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004635 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4636- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4637 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004638- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639 mkopttab to make option table?
4640- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4641 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4642- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4643 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004644- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004645 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4646- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4647 cursor?
4648- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4649- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
46505 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4651 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046528 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4653 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4654 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4655 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4656 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046578 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4658 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4659 (Netherton)
46606 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4661 space after "(", for example.
46625 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4663 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4664 (Servatius Brandt)
4665
4666
4667From Elvis:
4668- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4669- Add ":alias" command.
4670- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4671- Search patterns:
4672 \@ match word under cursor.
4673 but do:
4674 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4675 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
46768 ":window" command:
4677 :win + next window (up)
4678 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4679 :win - previous window (down)
4680 :win -- idem, wrapping
4681 :win nr to window number "nr"
4682 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
46837 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4684 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4685
4686
4687From Nvi:
4688- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4689- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4690- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
46918 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4692- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
46936 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4694 :bg :hide
4695 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4696 :dis b :ls
4697 :Edit fname :split fname
4698 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4699 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4700 :Previous :sprevious
4701 :Tag :stag
4702
4703
4704From xvi:
4705- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4706- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4707
4708
4709From vile:
4710- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4711- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4712 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4713
4714
4715Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00004716- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4717 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4718 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4719 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4720 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004721- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4722 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4723- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4724 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4725 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4726 current layout mirrored.
4727- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4728- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4729 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4730- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4731- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4732 font in each top-level window.
4733- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4734- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4735- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4736- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4737 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4738- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4739 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4740 mentioned in the tags file.
4741 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4742 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4743- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4744 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4745- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4746 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
47474 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4748 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4749 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4750 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004751 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004752 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4753 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4754- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4755 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4756 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4757
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00004758When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4759empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004760
4761vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
4762vim: set fo+=n :