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Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 Apr 05
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
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
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +020037Go through list of maintainers that didn't respond. (Thilo Six, Mar 19)
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Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010040
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
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Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010043Stack trace of crash: http://vpaste.net/GBt9S
44(Alexandre Provencio)
45
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +020046":help!" gives error, should use current language. (thinkca, 2012 Apr 1)
47
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010048Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
49check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
50
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010051GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
52(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010053
54Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
55complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
56Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
57
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010058Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010059
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010060Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
61not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010062
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020063Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
64Or use expand('<sid>')?
65
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010066Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes
67the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12)
68Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
69
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010070URXVT:
71- will get stuck if byte sequence does not containe expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010072- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
73 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
74
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010075When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
76for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
77Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010078
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +010079When exiting with unsaved changes, selecting an existing file in the file
80dialog, there is no dialog to ask whether the existing file should be
81overwritten. (Felipe G. Nievinski, 2011 Dec 22)
82
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020083Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
84v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
85
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010086Patch for: vimgrep fails when 'autochdir' is set. (Ben Fritz, 2012 Feb 4)
87
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020088Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
89- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
90 below/above).
91
92Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
938 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
94 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
95
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020096Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010097Another for CompleteFuncOk. (Florian Klein, 2012 Jan 31)
98Name it "CompleteFuncDone".
99
100Patch for Make_mvc.mak and Make_ming.mak for Ruby support. (Yasuhiro
101Matsumoto, 2012 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200102
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100103Patch to add completion for :history command. (Dominique Pelle, 2012 Feb 26)
104
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200105Patch for 'backupcopy' default behavior for symlinks on Windows. (David Pope,
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001062012 Mar 21, update Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200107
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100108Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
109(Kikyous)
110
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200111Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
112Patch Sep 18.
113
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200114Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
115And one for gui_x11.txt.
116
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100117":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
118finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
119Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
120
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200121Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200122
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100123Issue 48: foldopen error can't be caught by try/catch
124
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200125Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
126they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
127
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100128Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
129
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100130Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
131Nov 20)
132
133`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
134(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
135
136Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
137
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200138Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
139(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
140
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100141BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
142Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
143
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200144"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
145characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
146
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100147Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
148Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
149
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100150Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
151
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100152Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
153Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
154
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200155'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
156'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
157Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200158Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200159
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200160'cursorline' is drawn incorrectly in diff mode. Patch by Christian Brabandt,
1612012 Apr 2.
162
163'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
164highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
165
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200166With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
167(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
168need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
169
170Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
171only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
17221, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
173
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100174Win32: Does building a 64 bit version with VC9 give warnings for int
175conversions? (Mike Williams)
176
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100177Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
178New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
179
180Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
181Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
182
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100183Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
184Jan 19)
185
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200186Win32: default for 'backupcopy' is wrong for a symbolic link. (mklink one
187two). (Benjamin Fritz, 2012 Mar 15)
188
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200189Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200190
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100191"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
192Oct 26)
193
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200194Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
195
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200196With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
197register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200199In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
200Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
201 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
202(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
203The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
204This probably reflects a bug in the program.
205The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
206 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
207 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
208 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
209 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
210 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
211 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
212Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
213
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200214popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
215Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
216
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200217Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
218
219This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
220call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
221
222When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
223(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
224
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100225Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
226Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
227
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200228Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
229
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200230Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
231doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
232Jun 17)
233
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100234When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
235then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
236from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
237
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200238Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
239":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
24015)
241
242Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
243
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200244Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
245
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200246On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
24764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
248right type.
249
250string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
251(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
252
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200253Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
254
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200255When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
256(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
257
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200258When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
259doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
260
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002617 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
262Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
263
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200264maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
265mapping, how to restore the script ID?
266
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200267Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
268(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
269
270Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
271it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
272
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200273When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
274indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
275the help file.
276
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200277After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
278Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
279
280Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
281
282"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
283
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200284Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
28530)
286
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200287Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
288May 24) Update May 26.
289
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100290Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
291
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200292When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
293following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
294(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
295
296Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
297
298Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
2992010 Dec 18)
300
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200301With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
302number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
303Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
304
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02003058 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
306Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
307
3088 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
309 after typing something.
310Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
311function that resets did_cursorhold.
312Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
313
3147 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
315Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
316Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
317
3189 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
319 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
320Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
321
322Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
323Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
324
325Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
326Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
327
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200328In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
329or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
330sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
331
332GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
333doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
334
335GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
336
337Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
338Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
339
340Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
341
3427.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
343there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
344do?
345
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200346Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
34722)
348
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100349New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
350- move compflags to separate growarray?
351- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
352 the maximum repeat for * and +?
353
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100354"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3552011 Feb 27)
356
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200357Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200358characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200359When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
360properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
361Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
362clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200363
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200364Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
365^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
366
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100367When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
368exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3699) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
370
371g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
372the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
373
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100374Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
375crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
376
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100377Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
378correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
379
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200380Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
381names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
382Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
383the system encoding (usually utf-8).
384
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200385Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
386Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
387
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200388'beval' option should be global-local.
389
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100390Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200391
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200392setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200393
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003947 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
395 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
396 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
397
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200398getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
399element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
400Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
401and that it's documented.
402
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200403With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
4042010 Oct 24)
405
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100406Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
407Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
408
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200409Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
410
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200411When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
412Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
413
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200414Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
415delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
416mkdir().
417
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200418":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
419
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200420'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
421
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100422C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
423checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
424Issue 46.
425
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100426When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
427right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
428
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200429Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
430
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100431Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
432gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
433
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200434":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
435accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
436
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200437Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
438setwinvar().
439
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200440Echo starts in the wrong column:
441 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
442(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
443
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100444Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
445
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100446When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
447(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
448
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200449Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200450(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200451
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200452When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
453instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
454
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100455Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
456
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200457Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
458Winckler, 2011 May 11)
459Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100460
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100461Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
462back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
463
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100464Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
465one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
466Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
467
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100468Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200469Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
470
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100471CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
472the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
473FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
474
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200475Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
476Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
477
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200478Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
479Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
480
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100481I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
482Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
483an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100484
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200485Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
486
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100487Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
488non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100489
490iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
491Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
492or replace with a character and continue?
493
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100494Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
495Requires configure check for localtime().
496Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
497
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100498Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
499Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
500path.
501
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100502Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
503Dominique can't reproduc it.
504
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200505'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
506
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200507":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
508like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100510Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200511Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
512
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100513Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5142010 Nov 5)
515
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100516Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
517Jan 7)
518
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100519Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
520Only with "vim -u NONE".
521
522Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
523
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100524With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
525entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
526Feb 12)
527
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200528Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
529characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100531Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
532
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200533Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
534 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
535
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200536Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
537mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
538Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100539
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200540Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
541it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
542(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100543Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
544find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200545
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200546Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
547
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200548When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
549Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
550
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100551Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
552echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
553
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100554When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
555not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
556string value.
557
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200558":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
559getpwent() to find all the matches.
560
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100561Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100563For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
564line argument -noregister.
565
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100566When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
567missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
568
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200569When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
570doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100571
572Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
573(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
574Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
575There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
576Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
577
578":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
579highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
580to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
581
582Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
583Probably needs a bit of work.
584
585List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
586Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
587
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200588Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100590Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
591
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200592Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
593Sep 1)
594
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100595Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
596
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200597Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
598on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
599
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100600Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
6012009 Jul 18)
602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100603Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
604Added test, updates, June 23.
605
606Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
607window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
608Needs more work.
609
610Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
611
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100612When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
613few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
614
615'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
616(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
617
618Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
619J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
620
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200621When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
622for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
623
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200624Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
625
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200626Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
627
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100628When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
629
630":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
631because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
632ex_docmd.c.
633
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200634Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100635Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
636
637string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
638for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
639
640Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
641
642'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
64320)
644
645Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
646And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
64723)
648
649Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6502009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
651
652Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
653
654Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
655SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
656
657When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
658cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
659
660When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
661indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
662(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
663
664Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
665are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
666Ignore window options when not in the right window?
667Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
668that doesn't have a window.
669
670When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
671doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
672
673getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
674displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
675
676":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
677
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100678There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
679was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
680perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
681
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200682Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
683
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200684Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
685file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
686system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
687
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100688Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
689work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
690Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
691
692Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100694Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
695command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
696
697Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
698
699Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
700does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
701
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200702opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
703height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200704very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200705
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100706Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
707(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
708
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100709Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
710(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
711
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100712Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
713char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
714
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100715A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100717Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
718messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
719es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7202009 Jan 26)
721
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100722When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100723in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
724Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
725
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100726Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
727a modeline.
728
729Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
730Sergey Khorev)
731
732Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
733part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000734
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000735netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
736number to be below last visible line.
737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100738After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
739correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
740
741Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
742(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
743
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100744shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
745'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
746Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
747unix-like shell?
748
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100749Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
750that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
751
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200752Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
753register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
754(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
755
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100756Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
757Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
758
759Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
760make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
761
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100762When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
763still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
764
765"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
766(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
767
768Update src/testdir/main.aap.
769
770"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
771
772Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
773that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
774ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
775Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
776
777Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
778
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000779Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
780
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100781MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
782doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
783probably causes this.
784
785'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007862009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100787
788Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
789 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
790 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
791(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
792
793Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
794":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
795option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
796is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000797
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100798":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
799first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000800
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000801Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
802laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
803Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000804
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100805Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
806anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
807
808On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
809doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
810Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
811Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
812
813":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
814
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000815When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
816'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
817fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
818the buffer to be unmodified.
819Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
820another look at it.
821
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100822c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
823(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
824
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100825You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
826error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
827Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
828at the other match for 0xBF.
829
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000830Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000831
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100832When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
833argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
834
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000835Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
836backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
837
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200838Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
839Aug 23)
840
841When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
842line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
843
844Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
845position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
846
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000847After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
848(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000849command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000850
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000851":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
852Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
853
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100854Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
855Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
856
857When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
858either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
859put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
860
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000861Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
862Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
863Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
864Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
865(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
866
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100867Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
868
869ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000870
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000871Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
872(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
873escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
874an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000875This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
876July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000877
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000878Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8792008 May 14)
880
881Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
882Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
883'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
884
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100885Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
886Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
887
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000888Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
889Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
890
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100891Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
892
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000893The utf class table is missing some entries:
894 0x2212, minus sign
895 0x2217, star
896 0x2500, bar
897 0x26ab, circle
898
899Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
900line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
901
902GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
903Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
904
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100905Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
906try the Cocoa version.
907
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000908Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
909changed or the window is resized.
910
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100911GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
912the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
913
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000914Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
915Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000916
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000917Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9181) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
919
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000920C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
921with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
922Try to reproduce at work.
923
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100924Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
925Is there a way to list all the files first?
926
927When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
928result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
92916)
930
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200931Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
932Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
933
934Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
935(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000937Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
938Await response to question to make the register writable.
939
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100940src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
941remark why.
942
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000943Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9441)
945
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100946In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
947each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
948
949try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
950
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100951try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
952
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100953":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
954Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100956Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
957
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000958Including NFA regexp code:
959Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
960Useful in tests.
961Performance tests:
962- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
963- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
964- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100965- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100966- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000967- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
968 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000969
970Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
971Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
972
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000973Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
974Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
975Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000976
977C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
978(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
979
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100980Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
981":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200982Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100983
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000984When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
985and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
986
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000987Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
988 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
989
990New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
991
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200992":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
993a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000995'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
996Likonen, March 19)
997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100998Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
999other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1000
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001001The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1002appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1003matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1004
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001005When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1006character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1007'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1008(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1009
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001010Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1011Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001012
1013More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1014
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001015Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1016http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1017
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001018Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1019back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1020Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001021
1022Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1023No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1024
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001025Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1026terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001027
1028Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1029
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001030Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1031but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1032that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001033
1034When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1035
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001036Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1037Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1038
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001039Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1040popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1041size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1042This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1043
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001044Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1045a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1046isn't right?
1047
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001048When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1049it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1050
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001051Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1052then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1053files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001054Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1055indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1056":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1057in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1058quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1059Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001060
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001061When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1062parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1063neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1064particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1065Jun 3)
1066However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1067the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001068
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001069A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1070Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1071
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001072Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1073Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1074
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001075Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1076switch list is noticed:
1077 switch (i)
1078 {
1079 case 1:
1080 foobar:
1081 }
1082
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001083Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1084
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001085Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1086with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1087go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1088moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1089
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001090Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001091Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010928 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1093 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1094 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001095
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001096Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
109764-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1098
1099Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1100Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1101Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1102argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1103(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1104
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001105Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1106(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1107
1108Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1109makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1110.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1111 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1112
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001113Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11142007 Feb 8)
1115
1116Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1117 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001118 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001119 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1120
1121Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1122set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001123
1124Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1125
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001126Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1127
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001128Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1129Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1130New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1131patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1132
1133Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1134Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1135
1136Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1137Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1138Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1139
1140Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1141
1142Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11432007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001144Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001145
1146Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001147label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1148
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001149Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1150with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1151Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001152
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001153Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1154pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1155
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001156Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1157
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001158Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001159Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001160Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001162Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1163Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1164only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1165
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001166Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1167Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1168
1169Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1170Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1171Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1172properly?
1173
1174Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11752007 Jun 21)
1176
1177When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1178Jun 18)
1179
1180If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1181
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001182Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1183windows. (Adam George)
1184
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001185F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1186modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1187K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001188
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001189UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1190to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1191
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001192In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1193the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1194
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001195C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1196
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001197":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1198
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001199When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001200error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001201
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001202Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1203use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1204
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001205Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1206if_ruby.c.
1207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001208":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1209
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001210Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1211Needs more work.
1212
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001213The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1214it in keep_msg?
1215
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001216Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001217error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001218name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1219
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001220Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1221longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001222
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001223Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1224Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1225Also for ":w" without a file name.
1226The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001227
1228"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1229Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1230
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001231VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1232directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1233(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1234
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001235VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1236
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001237input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1238name?
1239
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001240Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1241
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001242When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1243(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1244Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1245will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1246
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001247gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1248This also fails with --remote.
1249
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001250When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12512008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1252all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1253
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001254":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1255Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1256
1257aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001259When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1260(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1261
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001262Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1263the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1264
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001265GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001267Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1268superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1269
1270Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1271character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1272
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001273Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1274Jun 5)
1275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001276Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12772008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1278Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1279
1280In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1281but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1282Jul 22)
1283
1284There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1285
1286Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1287":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1288somehow? Or use a new function.
1289
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001290Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1291
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001292Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1293that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001294
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001295Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1296moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1297that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1298
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001299The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1300
1301Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1302loading all files.
1303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001304Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1305line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1306after starting up?
1307
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001308When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001309cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1310the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1311
1312Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1313has been created.
1314
1315Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1316shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1317fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1318background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1319A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001320
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001321These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1322 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1323 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1324 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1325
1326Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1327partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1328
1329In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1330buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1331reload it then?
1332
1333New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1334previous version.
1335
1336For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1337
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001338Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1339only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1340
1341Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1342tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1343doesn't contain other directories.
1344
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001345Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1346 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1347 set background=dark
1348This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1349color is, not reset it.
1350
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001351Linux distributions:
1352- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1353 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1354 xfree-xterm".
1355- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1356
1357Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1358start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1359show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1360middle?
1361
1362When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001363(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001364connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1365dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1366
1367Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1368
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001369When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1370current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1371the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1372
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001373When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1374Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1375
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001376Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1377 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1378 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1379 - getting colors in xterm
1380 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1381
1382Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1383Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1384
1385Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1386
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001387A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1388Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1389
1390Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1391Dara, 2006 June 21)
1392
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001393Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1394number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1395
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001396After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1397the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1398
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001399Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1400Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1401about this.
1402
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001403Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1404copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1405error and stop using the connection to the server.
1406
1407Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1408Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1409
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001410Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010014112008 Sep 29)
1412
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001413In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1414check the result of has("patch13").
1415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001416Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1417restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1418
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001419Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1420and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1421
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001422Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1423put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1424
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001425Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1426resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1427
1428In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1429can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1430
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001431Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14322011 May 23)
1433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001434GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1435maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1436doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001437Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1438visible.
1439
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001440When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1441differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001442
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001443The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1444be only one.
1445
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001446"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1447script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1448
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001449It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1450the function name before resolving it to a number?
1451 let d = {}
1452 fun! d.foo()
1453 echo "here"
1454 endfun
1455 call d.foo(9)
1456
1457Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1458only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001459Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1460used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1461
1462Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1463output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1464Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1465
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001466Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001467"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1468name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1469Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001470
1471Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1472(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1473
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001474Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1475as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1476
1477Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1478Jan 1)
1479
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001480Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
148123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001483":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1484tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1485Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001486
1487xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1488buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1489Xterm 224 supports it!
1490
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001491When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1492text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1493latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1494
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001495Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1496
1497Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1498no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001500In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1501VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
15022007 Oct 16)
1503
1504TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1505Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1506
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001507Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001509When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1510typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1511Sep 3, 11)
1512
1513When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1514respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1515the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1516what happens for the GUI.
1517
1518X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1519pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1520clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1521Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1522Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1523clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1524
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001525":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1526this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1527
1528When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1529Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1530restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1531
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001532Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15332010 Jun 30)
1534
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001535
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001536At next release:
1537- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1538 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001539- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1540 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001541
1542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001543More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001544- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1545 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001546- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1547- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1548 21)
1549- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1550 patch May 10)
1551- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1552 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1553- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1554 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1555- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1556- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1557- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1558 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1559 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001560- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001561- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1562 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1563- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1564 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1565- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1566 21)
1567- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1568 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1569- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1570 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001571- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1572 Sep 13)
1573- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1574 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001575- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1576 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1577 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1578 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1579 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001580- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001581- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001582
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001583Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015849 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1585 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1586 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1587 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1588 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1589 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1590 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1591 (Alan Schmitt)
1592 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001593 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1594 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015959 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001596 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015978 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015988 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001599 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016007 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1601 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1602 How does this work? Missing comments.
1603- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001604 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001605 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001606 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001607 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016088 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001609 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016107 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1611 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1612- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1613 for multi-byte characters.
1614- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1615- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1616 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1617 been given values.
1618 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16198 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001620 with an ESC sequence.
1621 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1622 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1623 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016247 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1625 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1626- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1627 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1628 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16298 Add functions:
1630 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1631 Update 2004 Sep 10
1632 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1633 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001634 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001635 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001636 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1637 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001638 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1639 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1640 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1641 (2003 May 13)
1642 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1643 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001644 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1645 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001646 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1647 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1648 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016497 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1650 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1651- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1652 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16537 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1654 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016558 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1656 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016577 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16588 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1659 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16607 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1661 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16628 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1663 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1664 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16657 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1666- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1667 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1668 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001669- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1670 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1671- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1672
1673
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001674Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001675- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1676 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016778 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1678 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1679 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1680 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1681 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1682 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016838 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1684 make Vim exit.
16857 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1686 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1687 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16888 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1689 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1690 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16916 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1692 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1693 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16948 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1695 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1696 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1697 names in one buffer???
1698 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1699 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1700 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
17017 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1702 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1703 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001704 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1705 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017067 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1707 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
17087 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
17097 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
17107 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1711 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17127 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1713 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1714 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1715 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17167 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17177 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17187 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1719 to the match with the tag? Option?
17207 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17217 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1722 (Sayre).
17237 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1724 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017257 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1726 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1727 match. Nvi can do it too.
17287 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1729 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1730 line 1\ line 2\\
1731 line 2\ line 3\\
1732 . line4/
17336 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1734 the way the shell is started?
17356 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1736 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1737
1738
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001739GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017409 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017418 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1742 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1743 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017448 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1745 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1746 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017479 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1748 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1749 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1750 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001751- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1752 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1753 blocked for now.
1754
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001755
1756Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001757- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1758 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017598 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1760 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017618 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1762 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17638 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1764 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1765 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17668 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1767 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17687 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1769 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1770 "lucida_console:h8").
17716 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1772 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017738 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1774 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1775 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017767 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1777 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1778 to use an opaque background in most places?
17798 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1780 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1781 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17828 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1783 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1784 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17857 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1786 2004 May 9)
17878 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1788 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1789 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1790 MS-Windows 98?
1791 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1792 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1793 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1794 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017958 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1796 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017978 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1798 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1799 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1800 doesn't work properly.
18018 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1802 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1803 appears in the right position. (Webb)
18049 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1805 button doesn't give popup menu.
1806 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1807 selection.
1808 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1809 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1810 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
18118 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1812 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1813 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1814 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18158 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1816 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1817 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018187 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1819 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1820 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18217 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1822 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001823 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018247 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1825 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018266 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18278 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1828 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1829 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18308 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1831 know which keyboard is being used?
18327 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1833 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1834 area (Koloseike).
18358 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1836 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1837 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1838 the font name).
1839
1840
1841Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018426 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1843 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1844 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1845 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1846 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018479 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1848 required and it's missing?
18498 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1850 wrong.
18519 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1852 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018539 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001854 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1855 flag.
18568 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1857 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1858 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18598 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18606 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1861 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1862 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1863 the tooltips work though...
18647 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1865 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18668 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1867 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1868 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1869
1870
1871Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018729 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1873 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018749 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1875 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1876 through files.
18777 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1878 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18794 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1880 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1881 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1882 problem during a refresh.
18835 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1884 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1885 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1886 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1887 colors as it should.
1888 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1889 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1890
1891
1892Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001893- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018947 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1895 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018968 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1897 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1898 (Phillipps)
1899
1900
1901GUI:
19029 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1903 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
19049 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001905 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001906 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
19079 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1908 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
19098 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1910 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
19118 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1912 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1913 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19148 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1915 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1916 of where it is processing the output.
1917 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19188 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1919 doesn't work.
19208 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019218 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1922 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1923 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019248 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019258 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1926 browse().
19278 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1928 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19298 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1930 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019317 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1932 - regexp on/off
1933 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1934 when all buffers/directory is used:
1935 - filter for file name
1936 when directory is used:
1937 - subdirectory on/off
1938 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019398 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1940 to avoid problems.
19418 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1942 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1943 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19448 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1945 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1946 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19478 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1948 up. Set erase character somehow?
19498 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1950 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1951 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1952 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19538 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19547 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1955 visible.
19567 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1957 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19587 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1959 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19608 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1961 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19628 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1963 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1964 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1965 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1966- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19674 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1968 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1969 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1970
1971
1972MSDOS/DJGPP:
19739 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1974 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1975 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19768 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1977 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19789 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001979 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1980 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019819 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1982 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1983 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1984 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19859 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1986 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1987 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1988 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1989 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1990 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1991 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1992 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1993 key code. Use a translation table?
19949 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1995 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19968 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19978 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1998 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
19998 setlocale() is bogus.
20008 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2001 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2002 Windows 95 system!
20038 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000020047 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002005 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
20067 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2007 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2008 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
20098 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2010 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
20117 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2012 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2013 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2014 "[New file]".
20157 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2016 that is supported?
20178 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20188 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2019 Briscoe)
2020
2021
2022MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20238 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2024 gen_expand_wildcards().
20258 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2026 Wagner.
20278 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20288 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2029 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020308 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2031 a good fallback, thus use:
2032 $HOME
2033 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2034 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2035 $USERPROFILE
2036 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2037 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2038 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2039 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020408 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2041 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20428 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2043 Should work like in the GUI version.
20448 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2045 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20468 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2047 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20488 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2049 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2050 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020518 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2052 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2053 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2054
2055
2056Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020578 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002058 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2059 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20608 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2061 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2062
2063
2064Win32 console:
20659 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2066 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2067 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2068 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2069 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2070 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2071 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2072 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2073 and the file is not saved.
2074 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2075 long name.
20768 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2077 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20787 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2079 besides the console.
20808 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20819 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2082 <C-S-i>?
20839 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2084 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20858 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2086 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020877 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2088 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2089 exiting.
2090
2091
2092Amiga:
20938 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2094 sequences.
20959 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2096 backslashes in result.
20978 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2098 all options, using white space separation.
2099
2100
2101Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002102- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021037 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2104 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2105 (Jack)
2106 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021078 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2108 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021098 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
21108 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
21119 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2112 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021139 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002114
2115
2116"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002117- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2118 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002119- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2120 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002121- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2122 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2123 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2124 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2125 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2126 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2127 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021289 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2129 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021309 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002131 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2132 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021338 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2134 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2135 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002136 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021378 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2138 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21397 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2140 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21418 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2142 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2143 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021447 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2145 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002146- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2147 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021488 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2149 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2150 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2151 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21527 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2153 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2154 invocations belong together.
21558 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2156 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21578 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2158 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2159 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2160 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2161 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021628 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021638 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2164 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2165 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021666 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021678 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2168 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021697 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2170 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2171 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2172 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21738 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2174 defined.
21757 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2176 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2177 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21787 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2179 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2180 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21817 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2182 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021837 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2184 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021859 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2186 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2187 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2188 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2189 script can be called.
21908 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2191 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2192 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021938 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2194 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021958 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002196 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2197 configurable?
21988 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
21999 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2200 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2201 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022028 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2203 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022048 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2205 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022068 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2207 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022089 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2209 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2210 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022117 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022128 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2213 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2214 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022158 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2216 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002217 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2218 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022198 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2220 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22219 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2222 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2223 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002224 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022257 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2226 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022277 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2228 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2229 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2230 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022318 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002232 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2233 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2234 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2235 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002236 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2237 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002238 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002239 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002240 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2241 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2242 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2243 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2244 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22458 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2246 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22479 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2248 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2249 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022508 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2251 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22528 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2253 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22548 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2255 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2256 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22578 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2258 'linebreak'.
22598 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2260 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2261 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022629 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2263 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2264 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2265 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22669 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2267 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22689 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2269 isn't updated).
22709 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22719 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2272 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2273 cause another redraw, etc.
22748 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2275 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22768 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2277 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2278 ":w!!" for that.
2279 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2280 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002281 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022827 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2283 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2284 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2285 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2286 clipboard)
22877 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2288 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2289 Waggoner)
22908 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2291 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2292 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022936 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2294 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2295 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022968 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2297 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
22988 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2299 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2300 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000023018 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023028 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2303 (e.g., ":w").
23048 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2305 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
23068 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2307 for ">>".
23088 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2309 script in do_cmdline().
23108 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2311 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2312 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2313 changes.
23148 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2315 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23168 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2317 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23187 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2319 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2320 needed.
2321 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23228 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2323 to skip catch_signals()?
23249 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2325 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2326 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2327 text?
23288 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2329 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23308 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2331 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23329 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2333 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2334 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2335 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2336 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23377 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2338 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2339 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2340 in the list?
23418 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2342 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2343 instead of on button down.
23448 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23459 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2346 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002347 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2348 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023498 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2350 character is typed.
23518 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2352 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23538 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2354 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23558 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2356 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2357 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2358 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2359 cygwin bash.
23607 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2361 Remember flags for backreferences.
23627 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2363 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23647 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2365 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23668 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2367 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23687 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2369 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023707 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2371 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2372 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23737 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2374 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23758 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2376 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2377 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23787 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2379 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002380
2381
2382I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23839 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2384 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2385 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002386
2387
2388Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002389- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2390 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2391 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002392- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2393 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2394 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2395 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2396 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2397 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002398 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002399- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2400 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002401 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002402 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2403 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2404 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002405- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2406 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2407 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2408 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2409 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2410- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2411 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2412 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2413- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2414 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002415- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002416- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2417 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2418 character gets the highlighting.
2419- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2420 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2421- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2422 (Jennings)
2423- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2424- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2425 errors. How do we get the rest?
2426- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002427- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002428 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2429- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2430 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2431 first?
2432- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2433 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2434- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2435 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2436 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2437- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2438 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2439 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2440 (Benzinger).
2441- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2442 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2443 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2444- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2445 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2446- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2447 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2448- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2449 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2450 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2451 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2452 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2453 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2454- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2455 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2456 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002457- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2458 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2459 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002460- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2461 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2462 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2463- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2464 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2465- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2466 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2467- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2468 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2469- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2470 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2471- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2472 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2473 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2474 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2475 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2476- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2477 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2478 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2479- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2480 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2481 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002482- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2483 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 +00002484- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2485 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2486 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2487 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2488 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2489- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2490 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2491
2492--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2493 *extensions-improvements*
2494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002495Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2496- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2497 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2498 calling a function.
2499 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2500 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002501- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2502 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2503- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2504 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2505 http://clewn.sf.net.
2506 And the idevim plugin/script.
2507 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2508 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2509 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2510 other window.
2511 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2512 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2513 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2514 in terminal mode.
2515- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2516 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2517 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2518 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2519 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2520 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002521 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002522- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2523 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2524 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002525- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2526 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002527- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2528 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2529 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025308 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2531 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2532 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2533 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002534- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2535 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002536
2537
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002538Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025398 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2540 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025418 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2542 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025438 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2544 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025458 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025467 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25479 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2548 - change to cursor position and curswant
2549 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2550 - how it works for folded lines
2551 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25529 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2553 work too.
25548 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2555 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2556 text.
25578 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25587 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2559 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25607 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2561 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002563- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2564
2565
2566Help:
2567- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2568 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2569- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2570 to the other matches.
2571- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2572- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2573- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2574 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2575 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2576 default contents.
2577- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2578 height for the help window (and other windows).
2579- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2580- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2581- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2582
2583
2584User Friendlier:
25858 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2586 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2587 Briscoe)
25888 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25898 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2590 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2591 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25928 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2593 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2594- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2595 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25968 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2597 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2598 'runtimepath'.
2599 " Vim plugin
2600 <main plugin code>
2601 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2602 <plugin docs>
2603- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
26049 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2605 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2606 item?).
2607 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026088 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
26097 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026107 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2611 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2612 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026138 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2614 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2615 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2616 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002617
2618
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002619Tab pages:
26209 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026217 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2622 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026238 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026248 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026258 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26268 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26277 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026287 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002629 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026307 Add local variables for each tab page?
26318 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2632 tab pages.
26337 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026347 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2635 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002636
2637
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002638Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002639- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2640 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2641 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2642 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002643- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2644 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2645- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2646 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2647 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2648- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2649 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002650- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2651 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2652 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002653- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2654 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2655 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002656- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2657 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002658- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002659 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2660 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026618 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2662 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26638 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2664 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26658 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2666 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002667 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002668 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2669 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2670 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2671 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002672- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2673 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002674- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002675- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2676 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002677- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002678 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002679- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002680 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002681- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2682 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002683- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2684 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2685- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002686 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002687 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2688 in the affix file separately.
2689 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002690 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002691 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2692 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2693 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2694- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2695 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2696 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2697 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2698 Alternative:
2699 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2700 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2701 affix which is required.
2702- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002703 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002704- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2705 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2706 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002707- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2708 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002709- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2710 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2711- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027128 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2713 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2714 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2715 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002716- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2717 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2718 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2719 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027208 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2721 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027228 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27238 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2724 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027257 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27268 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2727 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2728 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2729 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002730
2731
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002732Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027339 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2734 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002735 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027368 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2737 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2738 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002739 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2740 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027417 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2742 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2743 location.
2744
2745
2746Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002747 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2748 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027498 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2750 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027518 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027529 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2753 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027548 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2755 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2756 user aware of this?
27578 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2758 commands skip over a closed fold.
27598 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27608 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027617 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002762- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2763 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2764 missing line goes unnoticed.
2765 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002766- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2767 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2768 smoother?
2769- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2770 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002771- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2772 file can contain:
2773 args version.c main.c
2774 edit version.c
2775 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002776- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002777- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2778 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002779- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2780 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002781- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2782 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002783- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027848 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002785 searches.
2786
2787
2788Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002789- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2790 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2791 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2792 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027939 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2794 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2795 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2796 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027979 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2798 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2799 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028008 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2801 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2802 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2803 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2804 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2805 item.
28068 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002807 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2808 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028098 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2810 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002811 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002812 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028138 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2814 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028158 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2816 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2817 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028187 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2819 so that the user can fix the problem.
28208 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2821 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028229 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28238 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028248 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28258 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028267 Searching and composing characters:
2827 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2828 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2829 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2830 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2831 characters can be manipulated.
2832 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2833 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028348 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28358 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28368 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2837 characters.
28388 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28398 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2840 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28417 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2842 'display' option to specify this.
28437 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2844 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2845- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2846 fontselector somehow.
2847- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2848 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2849- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2850 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2851- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2852 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2853 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2854 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2855 if a font exists?
2856- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002857 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002858- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2859 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28607 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2861 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002862- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2863 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2864 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2865 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002866- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2867 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2868 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2869- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2870 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2871 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2872 But it's very complicated...
2873
2874
2875Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028767 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002877- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2878- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2879 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002880- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2881 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002882- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2883- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2884 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002885- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2886 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002887- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2888 units as for the margins.
2889- Support right-to-left text?
28908 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2891 color.
2892
2893
2894Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028958 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2896 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28978 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2898 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
28998 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2900 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000029017 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2902 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029038 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2904 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2905 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029067 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2907 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2908 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029098 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
29109 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2911 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029127 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2913 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029147 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2915 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029168 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2917 change this for each release.
29188 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2919 pattern, but not in the body.
29208 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2921 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2922 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029238 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29248 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2925 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2926 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2927 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29288 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2929 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29308 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2931 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002932 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029338 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2934 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2935 used.
29368 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2937 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29388 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2939 re-insert the [] if possible.
29408 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2941 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029428 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2943 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2944 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2945 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2946 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029478 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2948 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29498 Support for deleting syntax items:
2950 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2951 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2952 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29538 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2954 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2955 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29567 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2957 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2958 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29597 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2960 detected.
29618 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002962 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029638 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2964 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029658 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29668 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29677 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2968 ":mkvimrc".
29698 Improve c.vim:
2970 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2971 "c_strict_ansi".
2972 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29738 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2974 current line while in Insert mode.
29758 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2976 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29778 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2978 display position.
29798 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2980 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2981 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29828 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2983 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2984 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029858 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2986 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2987 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029887 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2989 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2990 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2991 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2992 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029937 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2994 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2995 E.g. for this html:
2996 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029977 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
29987 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2999 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030008 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
30018 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030027 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3003 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3004 completion?
30058 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3006 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
30077 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3008 select one of the sets.
30098 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3010 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3011 2, etc.
30128 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3013 highlighting (for "." command).
30148 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3015 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30168 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30177 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3018 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30196 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3020 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3021- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3022 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3023- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003024- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3025 (for comment blocks).
3026- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3027 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3028 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3029 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3030 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3031 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3032 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3033 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3034 (Campbell)
3035 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3036 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30377 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3038 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30397 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3040 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3041 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30427 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3043 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3044 messages. And external commands?
30458 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3046 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30477 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3048 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3049
3050
3051Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030528 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3053 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030547 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3055 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3056 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030578 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3058 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3060 2006 Dec 11.
3061- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030628 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3063 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3064 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3065 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3066 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3067 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030687 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3069 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030708 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30718 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3072 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3073 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3074 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3075 nested packages?
3076 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3077 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3078 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030797 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3080 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3081 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3082 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3083 autocommand.
3084 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3085 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3086 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3087 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030887 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3089 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030906 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3091 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030928 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003093 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3094 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3095 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3096 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3097 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3098 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3099 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003100 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3101 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3102 3 2002
3103 Only add this when also implemented for
3104 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3105 be used.
3106 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003107 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3108 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3109 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3110 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3111 File.Open..." argument.
3112 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3113 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3114 with properties instead.
3115 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3116 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3117 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003118 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003119 crypt() encrypt string
3120 decrypt() decrypt string
3121 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3122 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003123 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003124 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003125 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003126 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003127 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003128 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3129 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003130 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3131 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003132 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003133 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3134 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003135 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3136 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3137 to allow the library to execute a command or
3138 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031397 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3140 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31418 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3142 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031438 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3144 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031458 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031467 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3147 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31486 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031498 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3150 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031518 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3152 option or environment variable.
31538 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031548 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003155 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031567 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3157 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031588 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3159 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31608 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31618 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3162 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3163 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3164 charwise({expr}).
31657 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3166 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3167 buffer for this?
3168 result = scratch(string, command)
3169 result = apply(string, command)
3170 result = execute(string, command)
3171 "command" would use <> notation.
3172 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31737 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003174
3175
3176Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031776 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3178 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3179 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3180 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3181 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3182 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3183 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003184
3185
3186Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031877 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3188 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031897 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3190 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3191 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3192 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031938 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3194 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3195 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3196 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003197 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031988 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3199 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3200 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032018 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
32029 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
32038 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
32047 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3205 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
32068 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3207 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3208 when starting up in a color terminal.
32098 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3210 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032118 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3212 function be improved?
32138 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3214 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3215 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3216 this be improved?
32178 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3218 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032197 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3220 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032217 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3222 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32237 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3224 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032257 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032267 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3227 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3228 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3229 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3230 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3231 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3232 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032338 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3234 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3235 using strcmp() too often?
32367 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3237 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3238 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3239 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3240 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3241 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32427 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3243 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3244 with an argument that can be messed with.
3245 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3246 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32477 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3248- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32498 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3250 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3251- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3252 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3253- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3254- Do profiling on:
3255 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3256 - 1000ii<Esc>
3257 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3258 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3259 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3260 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3261 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3262 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003263 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032647 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3265 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3266 changed).
3267 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3268 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3269- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3270- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3271 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3272- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3273 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3274 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3275- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3276 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3277- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3278- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3279 cursor is right of the screen.
32808 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3281 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3282
3283
3284Code size:
32858 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3286- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3287 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32888 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32898 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3290 it.
32917 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3292 left out.
32938 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3294 can be removed.
32958 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3296
3297
3298Messages:
32998 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3300 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
33018 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3302 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
33038 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3304 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003305- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3306 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3307- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033088 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3309 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033109 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3311 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3312 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3313 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3314 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033158 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3316 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33178 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3318 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3319 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3320 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3321 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3322 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003323- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003324 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033258 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3326 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3327 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3328 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3329 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3330 error messages, printing text, etc.
33318 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3332 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3333 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3334
3335
3336Screen updating:
33377 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3338 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3339 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3340- screen_line():
3341 - insert/delete character stuff.
3342 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3343- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3344 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3345- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3346 waiting for a character.
33478 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3348 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3349 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33507 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003351
3352
3353Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033548 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033556 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3356- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3357 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3358 windows.
33597 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3360 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3361 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3362- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3363 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3364 (Goldfarb)
3365- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3366 bound windows.
3367- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3368 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003369- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003370- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3371 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3372 of lines but not with a single line).
3373
3374
3375Autoconf:
33768 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33778 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3378 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3379- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3380 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3381- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3382- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3383- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3384
3385
3386Perl interface:
33878 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033887 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33897 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33906 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3391
3392
3393Shared libraries:
33946 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3395 :libload internal-name libname
3396 :libunload internal-name
3397 :liblist
3398 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3399 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3400 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
34016 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3402
3403
3404Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000034059 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3406 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3407 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3408 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3409 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034108 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3411 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3412 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003413 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003414 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034158 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3416 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3417 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003418 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3419 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3420 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034217 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3422 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3423 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034248 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34258 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3426 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034277 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3428 window for each tag.
34297 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34307 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3431 bottom" search message.
34327 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3433 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3434 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003435- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3436- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003437- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3438 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3439 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034407 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3441 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3442 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3443 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34447 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3445 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3446 :tagargs clear
3447 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3448 matching).
34497 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3450 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3451 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3452 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34537 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3454 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34557 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3456 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3457 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003458
3459
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003460Win32 GUI:
34618 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3462 the message and input?
34637 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3464 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3465 dynamically?
34667 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3467 (Mike McCollister)
34688 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3469 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3470 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3471 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3472 common part of the path.
34738 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34748 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3475 gettext and menus work.
34768 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3477 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003478 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003479 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34808 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3481 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34828 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3483 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34847 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3485 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34867 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34877 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34887 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3489 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3490 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3491 prompts.
34927 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3493 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3494 the file added into an already running Vim.
34957 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3496 functions to find the window title.
3497
3498
3499GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035008 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003501- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3502 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
35037 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
35048 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
35056 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
35068 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3507 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35089 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35097 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35108 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3511 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35128 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3513 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3514 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35158 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3516 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35178 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3518 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3519 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3520 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035217 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35228 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3523 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035247 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3525 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3526 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035278 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35288 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003529 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035308 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35318 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35328 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3533 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3534 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35357 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3536 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3537 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35387 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3539 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35407 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3541 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3542 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3543 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35447 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3545 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35467 Should support multi-column menus.
3547- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3548 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3549- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35508 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35516 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3552 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35537 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35547 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3555 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3556 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35577 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35588 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3559 name can be chosen free.
35607 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3561 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35626 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3563 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3564 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3565 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3566 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3567 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3568 things.
35697 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3570 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035717 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003572 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003573- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3574 where it was started from?
35757 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3576
3577
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003578Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035799 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3580 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003581- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035828 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3583 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3584 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3585 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35868 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3587 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035887 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3589 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3590 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3591 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035927 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035938 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3594 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035958 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3596 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3597 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035987 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3599 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3600 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036018 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3602 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3603 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036047 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3605 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036068 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3607 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036088 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036096 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3610 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036117 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036127 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003613 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3614 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3615 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036165 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3617 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3618 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36197 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3620 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3621 file.
36228 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3623 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3624 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003625- Add events to autocommands:
3626 Error - When an error happens
3627 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003628 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003629 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3630 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003631 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003632 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003633 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3634 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003635 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003636 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003637 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003638 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3639 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3640 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3641 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003642 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003643 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3644 the char.
3645 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3646 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3647 file from CVS).
3648 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3649 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3650 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3651 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3652 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3653 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003654 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3655 changes.
3656 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3657 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003658- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003660 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003661 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3662 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3663 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3664 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3665 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3666
3667
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003668Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003669- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3670 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003671- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3672 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3673 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3674 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3675 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003676- Ideas from others:
3677 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3678 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3679 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3680 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3681 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3682 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3683 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3684 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3685 Uses Perl for C++.
3686 Uses ctags to find the info:
3687 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3688 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3689 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3690 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3691 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3692 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003693 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003694 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3695- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3696
3697
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003698Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003699- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000037007 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3701 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037027 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3703 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3704 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037058 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3706 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
37079 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3708 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3709 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3711 - ignore/match case
3712 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037138 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3714 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3715 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3716 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3717 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3718 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037198 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037207 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3721 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3723 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3724 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3725 Should work for C++ and Java.
3726 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37277 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37287 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3729 instead of words.
37308 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37318 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3732 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37338 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3734 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003735- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3736 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003737- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3738 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3739 wildcards in the file name)?
3740- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3741- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3742- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3743 be in another file).
3744- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3745- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3746- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3747 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3748- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3749- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3750- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003751- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3752
3753
3754Command line editing:
37557 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3756 line.
37578 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3758 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3759 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3760- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3761 lines wraps to start of line).
3762- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3763 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3764 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3765 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3766 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3767 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3768 cmdwin does now already.
3769 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3770 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3771 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3772 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3773 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3774 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3775 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3776 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3777 Problems:
3778 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3779 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3780 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3781 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3782 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3783 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3784 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3785 character in first column?
3786 - Implementation ideas:
3787 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3788 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3789 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3790 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3791 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3792 Mode.
3793
3794
3795Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037968 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
37988 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3799 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
38008 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3801 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038028 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3803 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038047 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3805 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3807- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3808 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038098 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3810 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38117 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3812 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3813- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3814 identifiers (Webb).
38158 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3816 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38177 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3818 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3819- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3820 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3821- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3822 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3823 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003824
3825
3826Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038279 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3828 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3829 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3831 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3832 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3833 completely resulted from one mapping.
3834- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3835 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3836
3837
3838Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038399 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3840 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3841 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038428 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3843 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3844 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3845 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3846 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038478 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3848 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3849 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038507 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3851 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003852- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038539 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038547 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3855 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3856- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3857 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3858 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3859 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3860 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3861 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3862- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3863 Normal mode.
3864- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3865 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3866 are used.
3867- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3868- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3869- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3870
3871
3872'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038739 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3874 char * veryLongName =
3875 "very long string"
3876 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038778 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038788 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3879 long_type foo =
3880 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038818 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3882 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003883 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038848 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3885 func(
3886 new String[] {
3887 "asdf",
3888 "asdf"
3889 }
3890 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038918 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3892 (Chow Loong Jin)
3893 namespace {
3894 int
3895 func(int arg) {
3896 }
3897 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038986 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3899 func( arg1
3900 , arg2
3901 , arg3
3902 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000039037 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003904 func(
3905 int x) // indent like "(4"
3906 {
3907 if (a
3908 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039099 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3910 if (a)
3911 {
3912 if (b)
3913 {
3914 // {
3915 }
3916 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003917 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3918 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3919 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003920- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003921 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39227 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3923- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3924 line).
3925- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3926- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3927 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39287 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3929- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3930 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3931- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3932 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3933- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3934- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3935 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39368 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3937 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3938 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3939- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3940- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3941 lines start with "\item".
3942- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3943 /* here is a comment that
3944 is just autoindented, and
3945 nothing else */
3946- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39477 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3948 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3949 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003950 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3951 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003952
3953
3954Java:
39558 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3956 Odendahl?
39578 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3958 "[i" commands and friends.
3959- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3960 (Jason)
3961- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3962 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3963
3964
3965'comments':
39668 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3967 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3968 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3969 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003970 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3971 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039727 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3973 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39747 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39756 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3976 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3977 regexp is used.
39788 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3979 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3980
3981
3982Virtual edit:
39838 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039847 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3985
3986
3987Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039888 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039898 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039908 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003991 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039928 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3993 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003994 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3995 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039968 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039977 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3998 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039998 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4000 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040018 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4002 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4003 the end of the line or before a ".".
40047 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4005 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
40067 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4007 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040086 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40095 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4010 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4011 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4012 cursor is on.
4013
4014
4015Select mode:
40168 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4017 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40187 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4019 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40207 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4021 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4022 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4023 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4024 normal_cmd().
4025 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4026 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4027
4028
4029Visual mode:
4030- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4031 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4032 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004033- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4034 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4035 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040368 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004037 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004038 where needed.
40397 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4040 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40417 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4042 of each selected line.
40438 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40448 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4045 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4046 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40478 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4048 Ben Godfrey)
40497 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4050 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40517 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4052 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40537 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4054 Young is working on this)
40557 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004056 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40588 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4059 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40607 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4061 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4062 option!
40637 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4064 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4065 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4066 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4067 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4068 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4069 without changing the column.
40706 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040717 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4072 current buffer.
40737 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40746 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4075 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40766 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040776 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004078 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004079 or other special character.
40806 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4081
4082
4083More advanced repeating commands:
4084- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040857 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004086 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004087- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004088- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004089 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4090 "y." will repeat last yank.
4091 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4092 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4093 and/or pick an older command.
4094- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4095
4096
4097Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040988 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4099 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4100 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
41018 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
41027 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4103 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041048 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4105 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
41068 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000041077 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041088 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4109 entering search strings.
41108 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4111 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4112 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041138 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4114 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041158 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4116 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4117 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41187 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041197 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4120 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041216 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4122 abbreviations are to be used.
4123- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4124 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4125 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004126- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4127 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4128 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4129 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4130 Or implicit:
4131 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004132- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4133 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4134 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4136 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4137- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4138 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41396 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4140 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4141 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4142 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4144 non-replace Insert mode?
4145- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004146- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4147- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4148 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4149- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004150 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004151- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4152 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4153- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4154- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4155 ":freekeys".
4156- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4157
4158
4159Incsearch:
4160- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4161- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4162 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4163 up every time.
4164- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4165 folds when going to another line.
4166- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4167 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4168 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4169 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4170- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4171 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4172
4173
4174Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041758 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004176 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004177 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004178 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004179 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041809 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4181 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041828 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4183 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041848 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4185 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4186 Perl does it this way:
4187 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4188 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4189 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4190 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041918 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4192 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4193 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041948 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4195 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4196 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041977 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4198 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041998 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4200 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042017 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004202 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4203 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4204 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
42057 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4206 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042077 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004208 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042097 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4210 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042118 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4212 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42138 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4214 line.
42157 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4216 example.
42178 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4218 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4219- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4220 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4221 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4222 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42238 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42248 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4225 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4226 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42277 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4228 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042297 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4230 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042318 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4232 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042338 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4234 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4236 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4237 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4238 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004239- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4240 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004241- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4242 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4243- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4244 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4245 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4246 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042478 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4248 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004249- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4250 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042518 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4252 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4253 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004254- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4255 i ignore case
4256 I use case
4257 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4258 v use Vi regexp syntax
4259 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4260 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4261 Perl uses these too:
4262 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4263 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4264 o compile only once (Perl only)
4265 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4266 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4267 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4268 following command.
4269 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4270- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4271 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4272 for search string)?
42737 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4274 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4275- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4276 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4277- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4278 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4279- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4280- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004281 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004282 a for the next file in the argument list
4283 f for file in the buffer list
4284 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004285 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4286 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004287 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4288 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4289- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042907 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004291 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042927 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4293 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4294 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4295 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42966 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4297 effects.
42987 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4299 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4300 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000043017 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004302 Also ":dselect".
4303
4304
4305Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043069 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4307 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043088 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4309 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4310 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43118 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4312 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043138 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4314 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4315 timestamp?
4316 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4317 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043188 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4319 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4320 was changed outside of Vim.
4321 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4322 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004323 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4324 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004325- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4326 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004327- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4328 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4329 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43308 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4331 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4332 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4333 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43348 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4335 only remember the lines that really changed.
43367 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4337 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4338 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4339 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004340- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4341 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4342- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4343 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4344- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4345 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4346 [-99].
4347- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4348- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004349- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4350 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4351
4352
4353Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043547 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4355 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4356 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4357 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43588 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4359 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43608 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4361 inode too.
43627 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004363 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4364 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4366 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4367- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4368 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4369- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4370 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43717 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4372 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43737 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4374 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43758 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043768 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004377 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43787 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4379 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043808 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4381 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4382 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004383
4384
4385Swap (.swp) files:
43868 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4387 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4388 there are short file name problems.
43898 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4390 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43918 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43928 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004393 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004394 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4395 file the same as the actual file?
4396 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4398 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
43997 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004400 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004401 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4402 enough room.
44037 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4404 or /var/preserve.
4405- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4406 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4407- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4408 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4409- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4410 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4411 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4412 cached list of which line is where.
4413
4414
4415Viminfo:
44167 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4417 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4418 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044198 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4420 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4421 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044228 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4423 name. (Schild)
44248 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44258 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044268 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044278 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4428 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4429 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4430 this?
44317 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44327 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4433 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44346 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4435 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4436 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4437- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4438 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4439
4440
4441Modelines:
44428 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4443 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4444 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004445- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4446 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4447 'shiftwidth'.
4448- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4449 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004450- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4451 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4452 modeline setting.
4453- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4454 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4455- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4456 .cpp files.
4457- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4458 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4459- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4460 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4461
4462
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004463Sessions:
44648 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4465 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44667 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4467 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044688 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4469 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044708 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4471 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4472 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044737 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4474 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044757 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004476
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004477
4478Options:
44797 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4480 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044818 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4482 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4483 also be supported.
44848 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4485 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4486 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44877 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44887 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4489 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004490
4491
4492External commands:
44938 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4494 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44954 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4496 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4497 -f).
44984 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
44994 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4500 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
45014 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4502
4503
4504Multiple Windows:
45057 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
45068 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4507 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45087 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4509 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4510 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045117 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4512 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045137 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4514 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045156 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4516 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004517 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45197 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4520 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4521 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4522 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4523- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4524 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4525 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4526 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4527
4528
4529Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045308 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045318 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4532 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045338 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 +000045348 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4535 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45368 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4537 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4538 the mark was set.
45397 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4540 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4541 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4542 ":browse marks"?
45436 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045447 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4545 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45467 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4547 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45487 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4549 command).
45507 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4551 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4552 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4553 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45545 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4555 mappings.
45566 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4557 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4558 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4559
4560
4561Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045627 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004563 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004564- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4565 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045668 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045677 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4568 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4569
4570
4571Writing files:
4572- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4573 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4574 shortname conversion.
45758 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45768 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4577 file.
45788 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4579 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4580 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045816 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4582 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45836 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4584 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45856 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4586 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045878 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004588 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45897 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4590 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45917 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4592 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4593 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4594 waiting for a character to be typed).
45958 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4596 line of the window, like "[time]".
4597 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4598 Automatic and/or with a command.
4599
4600
4601Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000046028 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4603 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046048 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004605 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4606- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4607- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46088 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4609 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004610- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611 :s///N substitutes N times.
4612- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4613 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4614 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46157 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4616 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4617 last line column 5.
46185 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4619 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4620 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4621 (Stanislav Sitar)
4622
4623
4624Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046258 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46267 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46278 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4628 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4629 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004630- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4631- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4632 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4633- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4634- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4635
4636
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004637Argument list:
46386 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4639 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4640 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46416 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4642
4643
4644Registers:
46458 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46468 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4647 around in windows.
46488 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4649 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4650 for every line.
46516 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4652 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4653 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4654- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4655 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4656- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4657 leader when line wraps?
4658- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4659 line in the range.
4660- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4661 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46628 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4663 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004664
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004665
4666Debug mode:
46677 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46688 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046698 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046707 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004671 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4672 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4673 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046747 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46757 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4676
4677
4678Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046799 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4680 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046817 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4682 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4683 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4684 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4685 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4686 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4687 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004688 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046897 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4690 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046917 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4692 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046938 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4694 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046957 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4696 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4697 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004698- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004699 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047007 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4701 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047027 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4703 window as a buffer-tab selection.
47048 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047056 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
47067 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4707 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4708 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004709 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4710 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047117 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4712 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47138 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4714 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047156 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047168 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4717 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4718 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4719 in this Vim.
47208 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004721 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047228 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4723 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4724 have it apply to the following command.
47258 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4726 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4727 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4728 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047297 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4730 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047317 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4732 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4733 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4734 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047356 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47368 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47379 Support ACLs on more systems.
47387 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4739 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047407 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4741 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4742 (truncated to fit in the space).
47437 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47448 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47458 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4746 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047477 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004748 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47497 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4750 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047517 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047527 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47537 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047548 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47558 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4756 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4757 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4758 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47598 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47606 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4761 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004762 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047638 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047648 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4765 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4766 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4767 does something like this. (Shah)
47687 Use growarray for replace stack.
47697 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4770 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47713 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047727 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4773 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047747 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4775 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004776- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4777- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4778- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4779- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47807 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4781 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4782- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4783 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004784- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004785- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4786 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4787- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4788 call "play newbeep.au").
4789- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4790 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4791 (Bhatt).
4792- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4793 blockwise registers).
4794- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4795 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4796- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4797 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4798 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4799 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048017 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4802 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4803- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4804 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4805 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4806 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4807 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048088 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4809 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048108 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4811 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4812 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4813 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4814 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4815- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004816- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048177 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4818 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4819- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4820 not in column 1.
48216 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4822 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48237 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4824- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004825- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004826 :redir #> bufname
4827 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004828- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4829 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4831 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4832 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48336 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4834 console? (Klaus Hast)
4835- Add :delcr command:
4836 *:delcr*
4837 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4838 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4839 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4840 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4841 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4842 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4843- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4844- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4845 characters from 'isprint'.
4846- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4847- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4848 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4849- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4850 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4851 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4852- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4853- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4854 Nvi).
4855- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4856 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48577 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4858- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4859 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48606 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4861- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4862 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4863 macro).
4864- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004865- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4866 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4867- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48688 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004869- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4870- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4871- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4872 if it is not the first or last window.
4873- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4874 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48757 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4876 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4877 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4878- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4879- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004880 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004881 many percent down the windows).
4882- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4883 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4884 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4885- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4886 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4887- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4888 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4889- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4890- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4891- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4892 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048938 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4894 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4895 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4896 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4897 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004898- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4899 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4900- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004901 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4902- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004903 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4904 (Webb).
4905- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004906 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4908 hex codes like 0xff).
4909- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4910 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4911 the last TYPED command.
4912- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4913- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4914- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4915 should also work?
4916- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49178 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4918 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4919 name.
4920- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4921 trailing '.'.
4922- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4923 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4924 find_file_in_path().
4925- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4926 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4927- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4928- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4929 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4930- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004931 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004932- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4933 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4934 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004935- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004936 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4937- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4938- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4939- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4940 to the minimal size.
4941- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4942- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4943- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4944- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4945- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4947 entered)?
4948- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4949 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004950- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004951- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4952- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4953- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4954- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4955- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4956 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004957- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049588 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4959 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4960 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4961 or in octal.
49627 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4963 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004964- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004965 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4966- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4967- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4968 insert line command).
4969- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4970- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4971- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4972- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4973- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4974 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004975- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004976 yet.
4977- Implement 'redraw' option.
4978- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4979 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049807 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4981 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004982 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4983 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049848 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4985 do it.
4986- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4987- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4988 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4989- Add text justification option.
4990- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4991- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4992 off".
4993- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4994- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4995- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004996 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004997- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004998- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5000- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5001 commands.
5002- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5003- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5004- :table command (Webb)
5005- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5007- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5008- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5009- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5010- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5011 (Demirel).
5012- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5013- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5014 for use in macro's and the like.
5015- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005016 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005017- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005018 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005019- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005020 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005021 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5022- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5023 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005024- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005025 mkopttab to make option table?
5026- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5027 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5028- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5029 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005030- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005031 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5032- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5033 cursor?
5034- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5035- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50365 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5037 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050388 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5039 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5040 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5041 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5042 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050438 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5044 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5045 (Netherton)
50466 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5047 space after "(", for example.
50485 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5049 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5050 (Servatius Brandt)
5051
5052
5053From Elvis:
5054- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5055- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005056- Search patterns:
5057 \@ match word under cursor.
5058 but do:
5059 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5060 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50618 ":window" command:
5062 :win + next window (up)
5063 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5064 :win - previous window (down)
5065 :win -- idem, wrapping
5066 :win nr to window number "nr"
5067 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50687 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5069 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5070
5071
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005072From xvi:
5073- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5074- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5075
5076
5077From vile:
5078- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5079- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5080 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5081
5082
5083Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005084- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5085 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5086 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5087 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5088 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005089- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5090 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5091- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5092 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5093 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5094 current layout mirrored.
5095- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5096- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5097 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5098- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5099- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5100 font in each top-level window.
5101- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5102- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5103- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5104- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5105 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5106- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5107 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5108 mentioned in the tags file.
5109 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5110 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5111- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5112 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5113- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5114 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51154 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5116 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5117 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5118 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005119 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005120 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5121 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5122- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5123 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5124 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5125
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005126When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5127empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005128
5129vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5130vim: set fo+=n :