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Bram Moolenaarfff2bee2010-05-15 13:56:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3a. Last change: 2010 May 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar58f0a1f2010-07-17 16:30:42 +020033GTK: torn-off menu doesn't work.
34
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020035Cursor positioning wrong with 0x200e character. (John Becket, 2010 May 6)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036
Bram Moolenaarab8205e2010-07-07 15:14:03 +020037Test 69 breaks on MS-Windows, both 32 and 64 builds. (George Reilly, 2010 Feb
3826)
39
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020040Bug: searching for tags file uses 'suffixesadd', should not happen. (Dominique
41Pelle, 2010 June 28)
42
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020043When directory "/tmp/tags" contains "tags1" and "tags2", setting 'tags' to
44"/tmp/tags/*" doesn't pick up these files. (Simon Ruggier, 2010 Mar 17)
45
46":command Print echo 'print'" works, but ":Print" doesn't. Builtin Print
47should be overruled. (Aaron Thoma)
48
49Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
50^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
51
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020052Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
53Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
54
55'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
56
57":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
58accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
59
60Better Czech keymap. (Stepnem, 2010 May 4) Use if no response from Jiri
61Tobisek.
62
63Use Dutch spell files from:
64http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-nl
65Looks like this is newer than the new wordlist for Dutch:
66http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/1_10/nl_NL-Pack
Bram Moolenaar9db9d9c2010-01-16 14:29:14 +010067
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010068Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020069Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
70
71"make install" installs some of the .info files on Unix.
72(James Vega, 2010 Mar 30)
73
74Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
75Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
76
778 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
78 after typing something.
79Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
80function that resets did_cursorhold.
Bram Moolenaar555cdc22010-01-12 21:31:21 +010081
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020082Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
83Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
84
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +010085I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
86Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
87an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +010088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020089Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
90
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010091Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
92non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010093
94iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
95Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
96or replace with a character and continue?
97
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010098Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
99Requires configure check for localtime().
100Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
101
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100102Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
103Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
104path.
105
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200106":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
107like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
108
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100109Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
110look into reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
111
112Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
113Only with "vim -u NONE".
114
115Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
116
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100117Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
118
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200119Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
120mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
121Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100122
123Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
124reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
125Most time is spent in in_id_list().
126
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200127Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
128it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
129(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
130
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200131When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
132Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
133
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100134In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
135Jun 1)
136
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100137When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
138not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
139string value.
140
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200141There is no command line completion for ":lmap".
142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100143Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
144
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100145For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
146line argument -noregister.
147
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200148When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
149doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100150
151Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
152(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
153Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
154There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
155Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
156
157":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
158highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
159to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
160
161Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
162Probably needs a bit of work.
163
164List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
165Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
166
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100167Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
168
169Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
1702009 Jul 18)
171
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100172Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
173Added test, updates, June 23.
174
175Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
176window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
177Needs more work.
178
179Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
180
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100181When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
182few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
183
184'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
185(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
186
187Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
188J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
189
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200190When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
191for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
192
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200193Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
194
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100195When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
196
197":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
198because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
199ex_docmd.c.
200
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200201Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100202Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
203
204string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
205for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
206
207Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
208
209'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
21020)
211
212Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
213And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
21423)
215
216Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
2172009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
218
219Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
220
221Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
222SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
223
224When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
225cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
226
227When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
228indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
229(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
230
231Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
232are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
233Ignore window options when not in the right window?
234Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
235that doesn't have a window.
236
237When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
238doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
239
240getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
241displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
242
243":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
244
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100245There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
246was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
247perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
248
249Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
250work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
251Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
252
253Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
254
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100255Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
256command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
257
258Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
259
260Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
261does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
262
263Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
264(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
265
266maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>.
267These are needed to save and restore a mapping.
268Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29)
269
270Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
271char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
272
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100273Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
274messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
275es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
2762009 Jan 26)
277
278When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used
279in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
280Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
281
282Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
283one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
284
285Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
286a modeline.
287
288Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
289Sergey Khorev)
290
291Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
292part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000293
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000294netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
295number to be below last visible line.
296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100297After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
298correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
299
300Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
301(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
302
303Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
304that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
305
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200306Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
307register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
308(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100310Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
311Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
312
313Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
314make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
315
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100316When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
317still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
318
319"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
320(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
321
322Update src/testdir/main.aap.
323
324"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
325
326Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
327that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
328ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
329Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
330
331Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
332
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000333Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
334
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100335MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
336doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
337probably causes this.
338
339'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02003402009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100341
342Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
343 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
344 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
345(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
346
347Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
348":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
349option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
350is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000351
352Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
35311) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
354in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
355Another valgrind output Jun 30.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100357":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
358first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000359
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000360Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
361laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
362Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000363
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100364Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
365anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
366
367On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
368doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
369Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
370Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
371
372":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
373
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000374When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
375'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
376fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
377the buffer to be unmodified.
378Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
379another look at it.
380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100381Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
382
383c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
384(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
385
386Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and
387"+ being the same thing?
388
389You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
390error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
391Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
392at the other match for 0xBF.
393
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000394Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100396When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
397argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
398
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000399Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
400backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
401
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000402After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
403(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000404command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000405
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000406":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
407Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
408
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100409Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
410Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
411
412When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
413either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
414put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004168 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
417 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
418
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000419Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
420Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
421Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
422Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
423(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
424
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100425Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
426
427ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000428
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000429Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
430(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
431escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
432an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000433This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
434July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100436Win32: The "4913" file is sometimes not deleted. Perhaps another program has
437opened it? Use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? (Craig Barkhouse, 2009 Nov 6)
438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000439The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
440Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
441Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
442find_special_key() also has this problem.
443
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000444Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
4452008 May 14)
446
447Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
448Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
449'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100451Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
452Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000454Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
455Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100457Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
458
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000459The utf class table is missing some entries:
460 0x2212, minus sign
461 0x2217, star
462 0x2500, bar
463 0x26ab, circle
464
465Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
466line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
467
468GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
469Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
470
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100471Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
472try the Cocoa version.
473
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000474Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
475changed or the window is resized.
476
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000477Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
478Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000479
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000480Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
4811) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000483C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
484with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
485Try to reproduce at work.
486
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100487Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
488Is there a way to list all the files first?
489
490When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
491result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
49216)
493
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000494Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
495Await response to question to make the register writable.
496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100497src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
498remark why.
499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000500Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
5011)
502
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100503In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
504each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
505
506try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
507
508Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
509
510":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
511Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
512
513":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
514in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
515
516Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
517
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000518Including NFA regexp code:
519Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
520Useful in tests.
521Performance tests:
522- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
523- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
524- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100525- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000526- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
527 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000528
529Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
530Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000532Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
533Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
534Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000535
536C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
537(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100539Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
540":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
541
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000542When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
543and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
544
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000545Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
546 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
547
548New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
549
550'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
551Likonen, March 19)
552
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100553Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
554other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
555
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000556The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
557appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
558matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100560When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
561character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
562'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
563(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
564
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000565Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
566Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000567
568More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
569
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000570Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
571back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
572Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000573
574Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
575No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
576
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000577Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
578terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000579
580Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000582Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
583but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
584that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000585
586When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100588Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
589Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
590
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000591Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
592popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
593size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
594This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
595
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000596When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
597to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
598
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000599Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
600a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
601isn't right?
602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100603When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
604it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
605
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000606Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
607then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
608files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000609Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
610indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
611":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
612in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
613quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
614Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000615
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000616When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
617parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
618neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
619particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
620Jun 3)
621However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
622the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000623
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100624Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
625Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
626
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000627Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
628switch list is noticed:
629 switch (i)
630 {
631 case 1:
632 foobar:
633 }
634
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000635Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
636
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000637Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
638with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
639go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
640moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000642Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
6432007 Feb 8)
644
645Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
646 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000647 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100648 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
649
650Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
651set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000652
653Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000655Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
656
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000657Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
658Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
659New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
660patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
661
662Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
663Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
664
665Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
666Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
667Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
668
669Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
670
671Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
6722007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000673Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000674
675Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +0000676label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
677
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000678Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
679with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
680Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000681
682Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
683Build another diff.exe somehow?
684
685Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
686pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
687
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000688Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
689
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100690Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
691 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
692Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
693contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
694Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
695
696Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200697Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100698Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
699
700Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar
701Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct)
702
703Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
704Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
705only takes 'shellslash' into account.
706
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000707Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
708Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
709
710Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
711Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
712Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
713properly?
714
715Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
7162007 Jun 21)
717
718When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
719Jun 18)
720
721If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
722
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100723Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
724windows. (Adam George)
725
726When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
727(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000729F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
730modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
731K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000732
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000733UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
734to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000736In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
737the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000739C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
740
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000741":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
742
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000743When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000744error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000745
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000746Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
747use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000749Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
750if_ruby.c.
751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000752":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
753
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100754Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
755Needs more work.
756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000757The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
758it in keep_msg?
759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000760Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200761error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000762name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
763
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +0000764Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
765longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +0000766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100767Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
768Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
769Also for ":w" without a file name.
770The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000771
772"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
773Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000775VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
776directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
777(Zoltan Arpadffy)
778
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000779VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000781input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
782name?
783
784getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
785element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
786
787Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000789When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
790(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
791Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
792will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
793
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100794gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
795This also fails with --remote.
796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100797When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
7982008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
799all places where buf_freeall() is called?
800
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000801":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
802Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
803
804aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
805
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100806When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
807(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
808
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000809Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
810the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
811
812Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000813Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
814Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
815argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000816(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000817
818GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
819
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100820Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
821superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
822
823Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
824character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000826Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
827Jun 5)
828
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100829Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
8302008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
831Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
832
833In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
834but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
835Jul 22)
836
837There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
838
839Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
840":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
841somehow? Or use a new function.
842
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000843Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
844
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100845Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
846that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000847
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000848Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
849moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
850that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
851
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000852The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
853
854Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
855loading all files.
856
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100857Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
858line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
859after starting up?
860
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100861When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000862cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
863the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
864
865Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
866has been created.
867
868Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
869shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
870fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
871background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
872A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000873
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000874These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
875 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
876 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
877 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
878
879Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
880partly. (2006 Dec 7)
881
882In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
883buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
884reload it then?
885
886New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
887previous version.
888
889For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
890
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000891Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
892only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
893
894Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
895tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
896doesn't contain other directories.
897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000898Linux distributions:
899- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
900 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
901 xfree-xterm".
902- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
903
904Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
905start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
906show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
907middle?
908
909When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000910(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000911connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
912dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
913
914Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
915
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100916When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
917current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
918the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
919
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000920When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
921Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000923Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
924 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
925 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
926 - getting colors in xterm
927 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
928
929Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
930Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
931
932Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
933
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000934A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
935Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
936
937Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
938Dara, 2006 June 21)
939
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000940Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
941number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000943After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
944the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000946Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
947Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
948about this.
949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000950Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
951copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
952error and stop using the connection to the server.
953
954Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
955Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
956
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200957Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01009582008 Sep 29)
959
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000960In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
961check the result of has("patch13").
962
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100963Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
964restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
965
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000966Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
967put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
968
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100969Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
970resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
971
972In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
973can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000975Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
976to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
977
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000978GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
979maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
980doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100981Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
982visible.
983
984GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
985the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
986
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000987The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
988be only one.
989
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000990"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
991script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000993It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
994the function name before resolving it to a number?
995 let d = {}
996 fun! d.foo()
997 echo "here"
998 endfun
999 call d.foo(9)
1000
1001Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1002only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001003Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1004used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1005
1006Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1007output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1008Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1009
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001010Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001011"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1012name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1013Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001014
1015Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1016(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1017
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001018Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1019as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1020
1021Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1022Jan 1)
1023
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001024Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
102523)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001027":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1028tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1029Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001030
1031xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1032buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1033Xterm 224 supports it!
1034
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001035When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1036text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1037latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1038
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001039Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1040
1041Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1042no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1043
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001044In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1045VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
10462007 Oct 16)
1047
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001048When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1049disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1050
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001051TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1052Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1053
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001054Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001055
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001056When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1057typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1058Sep 3, 11)
1059
1060When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1061respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1062the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1063what happens for the GUI.
1064
1065X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1066pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1067clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1068Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1069Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1070clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1071
1072Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
1073starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
1074size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where you
1075only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
1076
1077":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1078this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1079
1080When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1081Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1082restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1083
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001084Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
10852010 Jun 30)
1086
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001087
Bram Moolenaara9dc3752010-07-11 20:46:53 +02001088Before (beta) release 7.3:
1089- Add fixes for 7.2 to version7.txt
Bram Moolenaarb02cbe32010-07-11 22:38:52 +02001090- Add hg history to version7.txt
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02001091- Remove UF_VERSION_CRYPT_PREV and UF_VERSION_PREV.
Bram Moolenaarbd5e15f2010-07-17 21:19:38 +02001092- Build the MS-Windows version with Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2?
Bram Moolenaar76b96fc2010-07-17 16:44:59 +02001093
1094Before release 7.3:
Bram Moolenaara9dc3752010-07-11 20:46:53 +02001095- Rename vim73 branch to default (hints: Xavier de Gaye, 2010 May 23)
1096
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001097Vim 7.3:
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001098Needs some work:
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +02001099- Have a look at patch to enable screen access from Python. (Marko Mahnic,
1100 2010 Apr 12)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001101
1102
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001103More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001104- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1105 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001106- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1107- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1108 21)
1109- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1110 patch May 10)
1111- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1112 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1113- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1114 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1115- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1116- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1117- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1118 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1119 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001120- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001121- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1122 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1123- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1124 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1125- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1126 21)
1127- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1128 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1129- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1130 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001131- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1132 Sep 13)
1133- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1134 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001135- Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02001136 Where is a recent version of this patch? Or use CSApprox plugin?
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001137- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1138 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1139 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1140 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1141 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020011426 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
1143 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
1144 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2009 Apri 17.
1145 Comments from Andreas Bernauer 24th, Dominique Pelle 24th
1146 Docs patch by Dominique Pelle, Mar 25
1147 Can we put the strings in a window-local variable?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001148
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001149
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001150Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000011519 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1152 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1153 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1154 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1155 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1156 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1157 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1158 (Alan Schmitt)
1159 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001160 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1161 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000011629 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001163 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000011648 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011658 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001166 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011677 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1168 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1169 How does this work? Missing comments.
1170- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001171 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001172 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011738 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001174 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011757 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1176 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1177- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1178 for multi-byte characters.
1179- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1180- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1181 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1182 been given values.
1183 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
11848 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001185 with an ESC sequence.
1186 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1187 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1188 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000011897 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1190 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1191- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1192 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1193 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
11948 Add functions:
1195 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1196 Update 2004 Sep 10
1197 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1198 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001199 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001200 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001201 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
1202 bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001203 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1204 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1205 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1206 (2003 May 13)
1207 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1208 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001209 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1210 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001211 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1212 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1213 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012147 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1215 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1216- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1217 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
12187 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1219 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000012208 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1221 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012227 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
12238 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1224 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
12257 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1226 Kotchan has a patch for it)
12278 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1228 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1229 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
12307 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1231- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1232 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1233 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001234- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1235 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1236- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1237
1238
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001239Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001240- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1241 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012428 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1243 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1244 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1245 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1246 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1247 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012488 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1249 make Vim exit.
12507 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1251 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1252 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
12538 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1254 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1255 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
12566 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1257 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1258 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
12598 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1260 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1261 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1262 names in one buffer???
1263 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1264 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1265 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
12667 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1267 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1268 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001269 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1270 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012717 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1272 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
12737 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
12747 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
12757 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1276 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
12777 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1278 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1279 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1280 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
12817 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
12827 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
12837 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1284 to the match with the tag? Option?
12857 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
12867 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1287 (Sayre).
12887 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1289 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012907 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1291 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1292 match. Nvi can do it too.
12937 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1294 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1295 line 1\ line 2\\
1296 line 2\ line 3\\
1297 . line4/
12986 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1299 the way the shell is started?
13006 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1301 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1302
1303
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001304GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000013059 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013068 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1307 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1308 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000013098 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1310 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1311 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013129 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1313 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1314 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1315 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001316- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1317 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1318 blocked for now.
1319
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001320
1321Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001322- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1323 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000013248 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1325 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013268 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1327 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000013288 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1329 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1330 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013318 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1332 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1333 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
13348 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1335 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
13367 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1337 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1338 "lucida_console:h8").
13396 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1340 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000013418 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1342 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1343 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013447 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1345 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1346 to use an opaque background in most places?
13478 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1348 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1349 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
13508 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1351 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1352 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
13537 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1354 2004 May 9)
13558 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1356 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1357 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1358 MS-Windows 98?
1359 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1360 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1361 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1362 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013638 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1364 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013658 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1366 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1367 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1368 doesn't work properly.
13698 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1370 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1371 appears in the right position. (Webb)
13729 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1373 button doesn't give popup menu.
1374 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1375 selection.
1376 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1377 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1378 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
13798 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1380 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1381 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1382 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
13838 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1384 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1385 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013867 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1387 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1388 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
13897 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1390 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001391 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013927 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1393 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
13947 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1395 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
13966 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
13978 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1398 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1399 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
14008 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1401 know which keyboard is being used?
14027 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1403 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1404 area (Koloseike).
14058 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1406 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1407 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1408 the font name).
1409
1410
1411Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014126 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1413 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1414 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1415 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1416 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014179 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1418 required and it's missing?
14198 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1420 wrong.
14219 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1422 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000014239 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001424 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1425 flag.
14268 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1427 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1428 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
14298 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
14306 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1431 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1432 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1433 the tooltips work though...
14347 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1435 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
14368 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1437 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1438 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1439
1440
1441Athena GUI:
14429 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1443 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1444 through files.
14457 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1446 read long file names. (Schroeder)
14474 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1448 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1449 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1450 problem during a refresh.
14515 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1452 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1453 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1454 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1455 colors as it should.
1456 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1457 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1458
1459
1460Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001461- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014627 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1463 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014648 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1465 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1466 (Phillipps)
1467
1468
1469GUI:
14709 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1471 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
14729 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001473 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001474 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
14759 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1476 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
14778 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1478 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
14798 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1480 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1481 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
14828 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1483 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1484 of where it is processing the output.
1485 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
14868 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1487 doesn't work.
14888 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000014898 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1490 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1491 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014928 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014938 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1494 browse().
14958 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1496 use that code? Or use console dialog.
14978 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1498 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014997 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1500 - regexp on/off
1501 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1502 when all buffers/directory is used:
1503 - filter for file name
1504 when directory is used:
1505 - subdirectory on/off
1506 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015078 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1508 to avoid problems.
15098 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1510 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1511 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
15128 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1513 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1514 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
15158 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1516 up. Set erase character somehow?
15178 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1518 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1519 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1520 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
15218 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
15227 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1523 visible.
15247 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1525 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
15267 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1527 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
15288 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1529 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
15308 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1531 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1532 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1533 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1534- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
15354 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1536 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1537 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1538
1539
1540MSDOS/DJGPP:
15419 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1542 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1543 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
15448 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1545 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
15469 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001547 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1548 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015499 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1550 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1551 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1552 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
15539 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1554 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1555 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1556 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1557 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1558 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1559 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1560 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1561 key code. Use a translation table?
15629 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1563 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
15648 Use DJGPP 2.03.
15658 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1566 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
15678 setlocale() is bogus.
15688 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1569 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1570 Windows 95 system!
15718 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000015727 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001573 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
15747 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1575 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1576 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
15778 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1578 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
15797 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1580 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1581 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1582 "[New file]".
15837 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1584 that is supported?
15858 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
15868 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1587 Briscoe)
1588
1589
1590MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
15918 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1592 gen_expand_wildcards().
15938 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1594 Wagner.
15958 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
15968 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1597 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000015988 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1599 a good fallback, thus use:
1600 $HOME
1601 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1602 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1603 $USERPROFILE
1604 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1605 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1606 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1607 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016088 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1609 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
16108 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1611 Should work like in the GUI version.
16128 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1613 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
16148 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1615 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
16168 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1617 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1618 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016198 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1620 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1621 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1622
1623
1624Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020016258 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001626 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1627 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
16288 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1629 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1630
1631
1632Win32 console:
16339 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1634 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1635 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1636 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1637 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1638 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1639 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1640 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1641 and the file is not saved.
1642 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1643 long name.
16448 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1645 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
16467 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1647 besides the console.
16488 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
16499 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1650 <C-S-i>?
16519 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1652 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
16538 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1654 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016557 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1656 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1657 exiting.
1658
1659
1660Amiga:
16618 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1662 sequences.
16639 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1664 backslashes in result.
16658 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1666 all options, using white space separation.
1667
1668
1669Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001670- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000016717 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1672 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1673 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016747 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1675 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1676 (Jack)
1677 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
16788 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1679 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
16808 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000016818 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1682 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016839 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1684 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
16858 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
16868 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
16878 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
16888 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
16899 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1690 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
16919 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1692 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
16939 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1694 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
16959 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
16968 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
16978 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1698
1699
1700"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001701- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1702 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001703- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1704 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001705- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
1706 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
1707 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
1708 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
1709 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
1710 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
1711 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000017129 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1713 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000017149 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001715 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1716 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017178 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1718 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1719 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001720 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017218 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1722 error number, it's not a regular error message.
17237 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1724 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
17258 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1726 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1727 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017287 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1729 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001730- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1731 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017328 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1733 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1734 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1735 using the horizontal scrollbar.
17367 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1737 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1738 invocations belong together.
17398 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1740 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
17418 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1742 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1743 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1744 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1745 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000017468 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000017478 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1748 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1749 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017506 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017518 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1752 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
17537 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1754 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017557 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1756 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1757 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1758 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
17598 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1760 defined.
17617 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1762 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1763 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
17647 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1765 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1766 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
17677 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1768 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017697 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1770 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017719 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1772 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1773 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1774 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1775 script can be called.
17768 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1777 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1778 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017798 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1780 CTRL-C.
17817 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1782 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1783 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1784 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1785 won't work for GTK anyway.
17868 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1787 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000017888 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001789 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1790 configurable?
17918 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
17929 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1793 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1794 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017958 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1796 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017978 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1798 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017998 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1800 always written, even when the original file already exists.
18017 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1802 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
18039 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1804 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1805 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018067 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018078 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1808 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1809 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000018108 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1811 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001812 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1813 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018148 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1815 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
18169 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1817 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1818 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001819 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018207 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1821 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018227 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1823 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1824 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1825 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018268 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001827 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1828 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1829 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1830 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001831 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1832 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001833 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001834 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001835 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1836 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1837 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1838 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1839 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
18408 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1841 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
18429 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1843 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1844 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018458 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1846 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
18478 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1848 in lines that don't extend into the block?
18498 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1850 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1851 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
18528 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1853 'linebreak'.
18548 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1855 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1856 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018579 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1858 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1859 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1860 'magic' in history. (Margo)
18619 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1862 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
18639 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1864 isn't updated).
18659 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
18669 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1867 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1868 cause another redraw, etc.
18698 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1870 must escape special characters in the pattern.
18718 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1872 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1873 ":w!!" for that.
1874 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1875 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00001876 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018777 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1878 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1879 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1880 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1881 clipboard)
18827 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1883 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1884 Waggoner)
18858 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1886 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1887 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000018886 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1889 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1890 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018918 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1892 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
18938 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1894 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1895 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000018968 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018978 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1898 (e.g., ":w").
18998 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1900 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
19018 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1902 for ">>".
19038 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1904 script in do_cmdline().
19058 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1906 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1907 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1908 changes.
19098 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1910 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
19118 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1912 check for file marks. This can be slow.
19137 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1914 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1915 needed.
1916 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
19178 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1918 to skip catch_signals()?
19199 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1920 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1921 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1922 text?
19238 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1924 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
19258 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1926 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
19279 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1928 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1929 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1930 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1931 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
19327 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1933 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1934 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1935 in the list?
19368 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1937 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1938 instead of on button down.
19398 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
19409 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1941 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001942 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1943 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019448 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1945 character is typed.
19468 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1947 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
19488 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1949 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
19508 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1951 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1952 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1953 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1954 cygwin bash.
19557 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1956 Remember flags for backreferences.
19577 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1958 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
19597 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1960 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
19618 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1962 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
19637 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1964 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019657 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1966 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1967 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
19687 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1969 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
19708 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1971 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1972 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
19737 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1974 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001975
1976
1977I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
19789 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1979 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1980 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001981
1982
1983Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00001984- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
1985 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
1986 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001987- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
1988 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
1989 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
1990 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
1991 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
1992 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
1993 (2008 Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001994- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1995 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001996 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001997 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1998 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1999 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002000- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2001 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2002 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2003 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2004 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2005- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2006 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2007 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2008- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2009 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002010- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002011- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2012 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2013 character gets the highlighting.
2014- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2015 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2016- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2017 (Jennings)
2018- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2019- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2020 errors. How do we get the rest?
2021- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002022- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002023 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2024- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2025 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2026 first?
2027- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2028 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2029- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2030 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2031 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2032- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2033 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2034 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2035 (Benzinger).
2036- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2037 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2038 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2039- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2040 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2041- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2042 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2043- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2044 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2045 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2046 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2047 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2048 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2049- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2050 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2051 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
2052- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2053 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2054 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2055- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2056 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2057- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2058 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2059- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2060 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2061- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2062 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2063- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2064 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2065 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2066 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2067 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2068- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2069 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2070 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2071- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2072 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2073 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002074- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2075 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 +00002076- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2077 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2078 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2079 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2080 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2081- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2082 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2083
2084--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2085 *extensions-improvements*
2086
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002087Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2088- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2089 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2090 calling a function.
2091 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2092 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002093- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2094 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2095- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2096 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2097 http://clewn.sf.net.
2098 And the idevim plugin/script.
2099 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2100 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2101 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2102 other window.
2103 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2104 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2105 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2106 in terminal mode.
2107- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2108 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2109 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2110 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2111 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2112 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002113 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002114- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2115 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2116 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002117- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2118 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002119- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2120 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2121 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021228 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2123 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2124 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2125 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002126- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2127 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002128
2129
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002130Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021318 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2132 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000021338 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2134 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021358 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2136 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021378 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021387 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
21399 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2140 - change to cursor position and curswant
2141 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2142 - how it works for folded lines
2143 - how it works with multi-byte characters
21449 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2145 work too.
21468 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2147 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2148 text.
21498 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
21507 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2151 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
21527 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2153 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002154 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002155- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2156
2157
2158Help:
2159- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2160 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2161- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2162 to the other matches.
2163- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2164- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2165- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2166 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2167 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2168 default contents.
2169- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2170 height for the help window (and other windows).
2171- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2172- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2173- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2174
2175
2176User Friendlier:
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +000021778 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
2178 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021798 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2180 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2181 Briscoe)
21828 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
21838 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2184 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2185 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
21868 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2187 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2188- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2189 ":mkplugin <file>"?
21908 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2191 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2192 'runtimepath'.
2193 " Vim plugin
2194 <main plugin code>
2195 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2196 <plugin docs>
2197- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
21989 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2199 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2200 item?).
2201 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022028 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
22037 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000022047 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2205 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2206 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000022078 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2208 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2209 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2210 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002211
2212
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002213Tab pages:
22149 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022157 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2216 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022178 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000022188 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022198 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
22208 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
22217 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022227 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002223 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022247 Add local variables for each tab page?
22258 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2226 tab pages.
22277 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022287 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2229 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002230
2231
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002232Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002233- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2234 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2235 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2236 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002237- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2238 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2239- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2240 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2241 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2242- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2243 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002244- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2245 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2246 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002247- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2248 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2249 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002250- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2251 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002252- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002253 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2254 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000022558 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2256 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
22578 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2258 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
22598 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2260 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002261 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002262 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2263 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2264 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2265 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002266- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2267 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002268- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002269- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2270 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002271- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002272 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002273- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002274 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002275- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2276 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002277- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2278 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2279- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002280 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002281 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2282 in the affix file separately.
2283 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002284 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002285 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2286 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2287 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2288- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2289 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2290 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2291 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2292 Alternative:
2293 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2294 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2295 affix which is required.
2296- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002297 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002298- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2299 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2300 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002301- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2302 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002303- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2304 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2305- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023068 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2307 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2308 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2309 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002310- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2311 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2312 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2313 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023148 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2315 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023168 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
23178 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2318 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023197 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
23208 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2321 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2322 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2323 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002324
2325
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002326Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023279 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2328 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023298 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2330 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2331 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002332 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2333 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023347 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2335 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2336 location.
2337
2338
2339Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002340 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2341 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023428 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2343 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000023448 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023459 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2346 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023477 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023488 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2349 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2350 user aware of this?
23518 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2352 commands skip over a closed fold.
23538 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
23548 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023557 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002356- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2357 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2358 missing line goes unnoticed.
2359 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002360- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2361 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2362 smoother?
2363- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2364 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002365- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2366 file can contain:
2367 args version.c main.c
2368 edit version.c
2369 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002370- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002371- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2372 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002373- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2374 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002375- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2376 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002377- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000023788 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002379 searches.
2380
2381
2382Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002383- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2384 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2385 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2386 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023879 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2388 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2389 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2390 byte).
23918 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2392 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2393 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2394 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2395 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2396 item.
23978 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002398 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2399 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024008 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2401 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002402 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002403 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024048 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2405 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024068 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2407 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2408 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024097 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2410 so that the user can fix the problem.
24118 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2412 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024139 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
24148 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024158 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
24168 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024177 Searching and composing characters:
2418 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2419 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2420 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2421 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2422 characters can be manipulated.
2423 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2424 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024258 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
24268 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
24278 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2428 characters.
24298 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
24308 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2431 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
24327 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2433 'display' option to specify this.
24347 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2435 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2436- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2437 fontselector somehow.
2438- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2439 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2440- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2441 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2442- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2443 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2444 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2445 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2446 if a font exists?
2447- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00002448 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002449- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2450 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
24517 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2452 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002453- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2454 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2455 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2456 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002457- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2458 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2459 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2460- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2461 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2462 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2463 But it's very complicated...
2464
2465
2466Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000024677 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002468- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2469- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2470 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002471- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2472 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002473- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2474- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2475 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2477 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002478- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2479 units as for the margins.
2480- Support right-to-left text?
24818 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2482 color.
2483
2484
2485Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024868 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2487 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
24888 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2489 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
24908 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2491 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000024927 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2493 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024948 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2495 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2496 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024977 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2498 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2499 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025008 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
25019 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2502 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025037 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2504 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000025057 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2506 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025078 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2508 change this for each release.
25098 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2510 pattern, but not in the body.
25118 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2512 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2513 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025148 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
25158 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2516 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2517 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2518 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
25198 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2520 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
25218 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2522 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002523 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025248 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
25258 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2526 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2527 used.
25288 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2529 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
25308 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2531 re-insert the [] if possible.
25328 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2533 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025348 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2535 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2536 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2537 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2538 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025398 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2540 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
25418 Support for deleting syntax items:
2542 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2543 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2544 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
25458 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2546 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2547 a '<'. (Fleiner)
25487 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2549 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2550 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
25517 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2552 detected.
25538 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002554 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025558 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2556 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025578 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
25588 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
25597 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2560 ":mkvimrc".
25618 Improve c.vim:
2562 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2563 "c_strict_ansi".
2564 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
25658 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2566 current line while in Insert mode.
25678 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2568 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
25698 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2570 display position.
25718 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2572 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2573 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
25748 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2575 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2576 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025778 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2578 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2579 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000025807 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2581 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2582 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2583 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2584 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025857 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2586 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2587 E.g. for this html:
2588 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
25897 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2590 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2591 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
25927 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
25937 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2594 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025958 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
25968 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025977 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2598 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2599 completion?
26008 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2601 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
26027 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2603 select one of the sets.
26048 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2605 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2606 2, etc.
26078 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2608 highlighting (for "." command).
26098 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2610 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
26118 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
26127 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2613 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
26146 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2615 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2616- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2617 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2618- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002619- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2620 (for comment blocks).
2621- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2622 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2623 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2624 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2625 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2626 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2627 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2628 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2629 (Campbell)
2630 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2631 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
26327 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2633 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
26347 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2635 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2636 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
26377 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2638 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2639 messages. And external commands?
26408 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2641 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
26427 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2643 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2644
2645
2646Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026478 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2648 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026497 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2650 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2651 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026528 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2653 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2655 2006 Dec 11.
2656- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020026578 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
2658 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
2659 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
2660 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
2661 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
2662 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000026637 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2664 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026658 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
26668 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2667 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2668 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2669 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2670 nested packages?
2671 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2672 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2673 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026747 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2675 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2676 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2677 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2678 autocommand.
2679 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2680 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2681 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2682 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026837 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2684 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026856 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2686 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026878 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002688 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2689 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2690 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2691 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2692 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2693 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2694 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00002695 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2696 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2697 3 2002
2698 Only add this when also implemented for
2699 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2700 be used.
2701 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00002702 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2703 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2704 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2705 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2706 File.Open..." argument.
2707 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2708 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2709 with properties instead.
2710 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2711 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2712 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002713 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002714 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002715 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002716 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002717 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002718 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002719 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2720 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002721 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2722 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002723 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002724 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2725 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002726 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2727 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2728 to allow the library to execute a command or
2729 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027307 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2731 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
27328 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2733 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027348 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2735 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027368 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027377 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2738 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
27396 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027408 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2741 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027428 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2743 option or environment variable.
27448 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027458 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002746 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027477 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2748 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027498 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2750 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
27518 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
27528 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2753 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2754 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2755 charwise({expr}).
27567 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2757 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2758 buffer for this?
2759 result = scratch(string, command)
2760 result = apply(string, command)
2761 result = execute(string, command)
2762 "command" would use <> notation.
2763 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
27647 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
27657 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2766 option for the search path. (Sekera)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002767
2768
2769Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000027706 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2771 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2772 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2773 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2774 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2775 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2776 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002777
2778
2779Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000027807 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2781 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
27828 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2783 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2784 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2785 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02002786 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027878 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2788 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2789 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027908 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
27919 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
27928 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
27937 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2794 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
27958 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2796 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2797 when starting up in a color terminal.
27988 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2799 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028008 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2801 function be improved?
28028 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2803 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2804 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2805 this be improved?
28068 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2807 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028087 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2809 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028107 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2811 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
28127 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2813 lot of abbreviations).
28147 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
28157 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2816 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2817 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2818 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2819 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2820 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2821 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
28228 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2823 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2824 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2825 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
28268 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2827 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2828 using strcmp() too often?
28297 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2830 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2831 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2832 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2833 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2834 the two blocks to the memfile block.
28357 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2836 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2837 with an argument that can be messed with.
2838 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2839 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
28407 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2841- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
28428 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2843 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2844- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2845 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2846- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2847- Do profiling on:
2848 - :g/pat/normal cmd
2849 - 1000ii<Esc>
2850 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2851 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2852 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2853 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2854 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2855 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002856 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028577 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2858 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2859 changed).
2860 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2861 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2862- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2863- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2864 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2865- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2866 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2867 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2868- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2869 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2870- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2871- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2872 cursor is right of the screen.
28738 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2874 CTRL-C (it's slow).
2875
2876
2877Code size:
28788 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2879- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2880 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
28818 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
28828 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2883 it.
28847 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2885 left out.
28868 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2887 can be removed.
28888 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2889
2890
2891Messages:
28928 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2893 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
28948 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2895 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
28968 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2897 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002898- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2899 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2900- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029018 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2902 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029039 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2904 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2905 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2906 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2907 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029088 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2909 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
29108 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2911 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2912 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2913 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2914 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2915 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002916- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002917 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2919 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2920 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2921 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2922 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2923 error messages, printing text, etc.
29248 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2925 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2926 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2927
2928
2929Screen updating:
29307 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2931 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2932 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2933- screen_line():
2934 - insert/delete character stuff.
2935 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2936- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2937 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2938- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2939 waiting for a character.
29408 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2941 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2942 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
29437 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002944
2945
2946Scrolling:
29478 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
29486 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2949- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2950 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2951 windows.
29527 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2953 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2954 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2955- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2956 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2957 (Goldfarb)
2958- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2959 bound windows.
2960- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2961 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00002962- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002963- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2964 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2965 of lines but not with a single line).
2966
2967
2968Autoconf:
29698 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
29708 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2971 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2972- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2973 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2974- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2975- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2976- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2977
2978
2979Perl interface:
29808 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029817 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
29827 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
29836 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2984
2985
2986Shared libraries:
29876 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2988 :libload internal-name libname
2989 :libunload internal-name
2990 :liblist
2991 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2992 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2993 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
29946 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2995
2996
2997Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000029989 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
2999 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3000 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3001 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3002 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000030038 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3004 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3005 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003006 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003007 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000030088 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3009 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3010 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003011 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3012 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3013 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000030147 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3015 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3016 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030178 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
30188 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3019 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030207 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3021 window for each tag.
30227 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
30237 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3024 bottom" search message.
30257 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3026 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3027 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003028- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3029- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003030- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3031 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3032 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030337 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3034 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3035 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3036 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
30377 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3038 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3039 :tagargs clear
3040 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3041 matching).
30427 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3043 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3044 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3045 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
30467 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3047 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
30487 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3049 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3050 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003051
3052
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003053Win32 GUI:
30548 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3055 the message and input?
30567 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3057 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3058 dynamically?
30597 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3060 (Mike McCollister)
30618 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3062 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3063 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3064 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3065 common part of the path.
30668 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
30678 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3068 gettext and menus work.
30698 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3070 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003071 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003072 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
30738 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3074 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
30758 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3076 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
30777 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3078 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
30797 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
30807 <Esc> should close a dialog.
30817 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3082 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3083 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3084 prompts.
30857 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3086 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3087 the file added into an already running Vim.
30887 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3089 functions to find the window title.
3090
3091
3092GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030938 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3094- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3095 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
30967 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
30978 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
30986 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
30998 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3100 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
31019 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
31027 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
31038 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3104 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
31058 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3106 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3107 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
31088 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3109 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
31108 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3111 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3112 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3113 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031147 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
31158 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3116 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000031177 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3118 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3119 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031208 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
31218 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003122 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031238 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
31248 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
31258 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3126 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3127 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
31287 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3129 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3130 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
31317 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3132 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
31337 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3134 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3135 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3136 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
31377 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3138 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
31397 Should support multi-column menus.
3140- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3141 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3142- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
31438 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
31446 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3145 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
31467 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
31477 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3148 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3149 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
31507 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
31518 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3152 name can be chosen free.
31537 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3154 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
31556 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3156 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3157 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3158 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3159 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3160 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3161 things.
31627 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3163 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031647 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003165 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003166- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3167 where it was started from?
31687 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3169
3170
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003171Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003172- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010031738 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3174 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3175 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3176 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
31778 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3178 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000031797 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3180 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3181 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3182 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031838 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
3184 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000031857 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031868 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3187 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031888 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3189 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3190 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031917 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3192 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3193 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031948 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3195 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3196 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031977 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3198 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000031998 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3200 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032018 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032026 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3203 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032047 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032057 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3206 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3207 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3208 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
32095 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3210 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3211 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
32127 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3213 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3214 file.
32158 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3216 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3217 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003218- Add events to autocommands:
3219 Error - When an error happens
3220 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003221 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003222 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3223 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003224 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003225 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003226 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3227 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003228 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003229 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003230 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003231 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3232 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3233 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3234 window title)
3235 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
3236 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
3237 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
3238 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
3239 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
3240 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
3241 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
3242 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3243 the char.
3244 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3245 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3246 file from CVS).
3247 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3248 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3249 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3250 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3251 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3252 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003253 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3254 changes.
3255 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3256 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003257- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003258 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003259 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003260 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3261 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3262 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3263 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3264 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3265
3266
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003267Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003268- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3269 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003270- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3271 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3272 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3273 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3274 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003275- Ideas from others:
3276 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3277 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3278 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3279 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3280 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3281 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3282 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3283 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3284 Uses Perl for C++.
3285 Uses ctags to find the info:
3286 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3287 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3288 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3289 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3290 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3291 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003292 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003293 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3294- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3295
3296
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003297Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003298- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000032997 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3300 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033017 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3302 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3303 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033048 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3305 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
33069 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3307 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3308 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033098 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3310 - ignore/match case
3311 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033128 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3313 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3314 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3315 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3316 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3317 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033188 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000033197 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3320 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033218 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3322 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3323 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3324 Should work for C++ and Java.
3325 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
33267 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
33277 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3328 instead of words.
33298 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
33308 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3331 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
33328 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3333 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003334- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3335 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003336- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3337 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3338 wildcards in the file name)?
3339- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3340- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3341- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3342 be in another file).
3343- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3344- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3345- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3346 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3347- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3348- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3349- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003350- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3351
3352
3353Command line editing:
33547 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3355 line.
33568 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3357 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3358 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3359- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3360 lines wraps to start of line).
3361- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3362 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3363 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3364 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3365 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3366 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3367 cmdwin does now already.
3368 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3369 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3370 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3371 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3372 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3373 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3374 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3375 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3376 Problems:
3377 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3378 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3379 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3380 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3381 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3382 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3383 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3384 character in first column?
3385 - Implementation ideas:
3386 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3387 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3388 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3389 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3390 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3391 Mode.
3392
3393
3394Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033958 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033968 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
33978 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3398 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
33998 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3400 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034018 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3402 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034037 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3404 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003405- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3406- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3407 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034088 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3409 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
34107 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3411 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3412- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3413 identifiers (Webb).
34148 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3415 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
34167 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3417 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3418- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3419 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3420- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3421 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3422 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003423
3424
3425Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000034269 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3427 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3428 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003429- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3430 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3431 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3432 completely resulted from one mapping.
3433- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3434 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3435
3436
3437Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000034389 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3439 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3440 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034418 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3442 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3443 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3444 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3445 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034468 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3447 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3448 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034497 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3450 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003451- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034527 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3453 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3454- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3455 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3456 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3457 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3458 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3459 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3460- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3461 Normal mode.
3462- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3463 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3464 are used.
3465- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3466- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3467- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3468
3469
3470'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034719 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3472 cout << "a"
3473 << ") :"
3474 << "y";
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010034759 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3476 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034778 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034788 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3479 long_type foo =
3480 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034818 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3482 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003483 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034848 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3485 func(
3486 new String[] {
3487 "asdf",
3488 "asdf"
3489 }
3490 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010034918 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3492 (Chow Loong Jin)
3493 namespace {
3494 int
3495 func(int arg) {
3496 }
3497 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034986 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3499 func( arg1
3500 , arg2
3501 , arg3
3502 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000035037 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003504 func(
3505 int x) // indent like "(4"
3506 {
3507 if (a
3508 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035099 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3510 if (a)
3511 {
3512 if (b)
3513 {
3514 // {
3515 }
3516 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003517 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3518 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3519 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003520- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003521 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
35227 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3523- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3524 line).
3525- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3526- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3527 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
35287 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3529- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3530 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3531- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3532 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3533- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3534- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3535 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
35368 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3537 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3538 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3539- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3540- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3541 lines start with "\item".
3542- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3543 /* here is a comment that
3544 is just autoindented, and
3545 nothing else */
3546- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
35477 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3548 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3549 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003550 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3551 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003552
3553
3554Java:
35558 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3556 Odendahl?
35578 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3558 "[i" commands and friends.
3559- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3560 (Jason)
3561- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3562 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3563
3564
3565'comments':
35668 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3567 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3568 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3569 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003570 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3571 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035727 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3573 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
35747 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
35756 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3576 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3577 regexp is used.
35788 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3579 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3580
3581
3582Virtual edit:
35838 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035847 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3585
3586
3587Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035888 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035898 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000035908 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003591 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035928 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3593 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003594 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3595 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035968 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035977 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3598 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035998 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3600 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036018 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3602 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3603 the end of the line or before a ".".
36047 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3605 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
36067 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3607 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036086 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
36095 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3610 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3611 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3612 cursor is on.
3613
3614
3615Select mode:
36168 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3617 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
36187 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3619 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
36207 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3621 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3622 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3623 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3624 normal_cmd().
3625 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3626 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3627
3628
3629Visual mode:
3630- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3631 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3632 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003633- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3634 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3635 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036368 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003637 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003638 where needed.
36397 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3640 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
36417 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3642 of each selected line.
36438 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
36448 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3645 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3646 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
36478 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3648 Ben Godfrey)
36497 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3650 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
36517 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3652 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
36537 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3654 Young is working on this)
36557 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003656 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003657 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
36588 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3659 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
36607 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3661 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3662 option!
36637 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3664 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3665 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3666 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3667 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3668 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3669 without changing the column.
36706 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036717 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3672 current buffer.
36737 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
36746 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3675 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
36766 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036776 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003678 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003679 or other special character.
36806 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3681
3682
3683More advanced repeating commands:
3684- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036857 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003686 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003687- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003688- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003689 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3690 "y." will repeat last yank.
3691 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3692 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3693 and/or pick an older command.
3694- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3695
3696
3697Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036988 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3699 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3700 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
37018 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
37027 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3703 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037048 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3705 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
37068 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000037077 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3709 entering search strings.
37108 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3711 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3712 not the <Space>.
37138 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
37148 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3715 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037168 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3717 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3718 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
37197 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
37207 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003721 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722 option.
37237 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3724 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
37257 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3726 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3727 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037286 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3729 abbreviations are to be used.
3730- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3731 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3732 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003733- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3734 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3735 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3736 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3737 Or implicit:
3738 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003739- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3740- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3741 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3742 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003743- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3744 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3745- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3746 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3747- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3748 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
37496 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3750 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3751 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3752 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003753- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3754 non-replace Insert mode?
3755- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003756- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3757- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3758 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3759- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003760 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3762 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3763- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3764- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3765 ":freekeys".
3766- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3767
3768
3769Incsearch:
3770- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3771- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3772 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3773 up every time.
3774- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3775 folds when going to another line.
3776- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3777 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3778 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3779 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3780- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3781 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3782
3783
3784Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000037858 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00003786 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003787 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003788 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003789 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010037909 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3791 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000037928 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3793 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3794 Perl does it this way:
3795 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3796 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3797 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3798 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037998 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3800 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3801 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038028 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
3803 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
3804 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000038057 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3806 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038078 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3808 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038097 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003810 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3811 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3812 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
38137 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3814 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038157 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003816 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038177 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3818 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038198 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3820 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
38218 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3822 line.
38237 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3824 example.
38258 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3826 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3827- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3828 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3829 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3830 Alternative: use matchit.vim
38318 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
38328 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3833 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3834 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
38357 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3836 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000038377 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3838 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038398 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3840 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038418 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3842 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038438 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3844 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3845 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3846 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003847- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3848 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003849- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3850 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3851- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3852 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3853 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3854 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038558 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3856 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3858 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038598 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3860 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3861 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003862- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3863 i ignore case
3864 I use case
3865 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3866 v use Vi regexp syntax
3867 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3868 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3869 Perl uses these too:
3870 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3871 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3872 o compile only once (Perl only)
3873 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3874 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3875 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3876 following command.
3877 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3878- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3879 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3880 for search string)?
38817 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3882 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3883- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3884 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3885- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3886 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3887- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3888- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003889 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003890 a for the next file in the argument list
3891 f for file in the buffer list
3892 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003893 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3894 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003895 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3896 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3897- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038987 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003899 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039007 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3901 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3902 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3903 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
39046 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3905 effects.
39067 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3907 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3908 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039097 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003910 Also ":dselect".
3911
3912
3913Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039149 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3915 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020039168 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
3917 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
3918 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
39198 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3920 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039218 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3922 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3923 timestamp?
3924 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3925 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039268 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3927 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3928 was changed outside of Vim.
3929 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3930 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02003931 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
3932 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
3933 OR: before unloading, write a backup file with the current text, as if
3934 doing ":w" twice before reloading.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003935- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3936 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3938 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3939 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
39408 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3941 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3942 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3943 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
39448 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3945 only remember the lines that really changed.
39467 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3947 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3948 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3949 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003950- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3951 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3952- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3953 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3954- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3955 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3956 [-99].
3957- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3958- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3960 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
3961
3962
3963Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039647 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
3965 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
3966 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
3967 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
39688 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
3969 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
39708 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
3971 inode too.
39727 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003973 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
3974 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039757 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
3976 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
3977- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
3978 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
3979- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
3980 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
39817 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
3982 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
39837 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
3984 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
39858 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000039868 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
39887 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
3989 internal use and for when executing an external program?
3990
3991
3992Swap (.swp) files:
39938 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
3994 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
3995 there are short file name problems.
39968 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3997 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
39988 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
39998 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004000 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004001 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4002 file the same as the actual file?
4003 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040047 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4005 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
40067 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004007 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004008 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4009 enough room.
40107 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4011 or /var/preserve.
4012- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4013 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4014- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4015 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4016- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4017 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4018 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4019 cached list of which line is where.
4020
4021
4022Viminfo:
40237 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4024 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4025 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040268 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4027 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4028 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040298 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4030 name. (Schild)
40318 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
40328 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040338 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040348 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4035 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4036 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4037 this?
40387 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
40397 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4040 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
40416 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4042 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4043 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4044- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4045 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4046
4047
4048Modelines:
40498 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4050 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4051 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004052- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4053 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4054 'shiftwidth'.
4055- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4056 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4058 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4059 modeline setting.
4060- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4061 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4062- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4063 .cpp files.
4064- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4065 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4066- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4067 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4068
4069
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004070Sessions:
40718 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4072 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
40737 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4074 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040758 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4076 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040778 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4078 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4079 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000040807 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4081 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000040827 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004083
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004084
4085Options:
40867 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4087 restore it after the command has executed.
40887 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4089 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4090 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040918 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4092 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4093 also be supported.
40948 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4095 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4096 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
40977 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
40987 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4099 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004100
4101
4102External commands:
41038 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4104 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
41054 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4106 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4107 -f).
41084 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
41094 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4110 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
41114 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4112
4113
4114Multiple Windows:
41157 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
41168 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4117 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
41187 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4119 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4120 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041217 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4122 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000041237 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4124 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041256 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4126 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004127 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004128 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
41297 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4130 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4131 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4132 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4133- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4134 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4135 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4136 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4137
4138
4139Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041408 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041418 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4142 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041438 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 +000041448 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4145 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
41468 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4147 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4148 the mark was set.
41497 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4150 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4151 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4152 ":browse marks"?
41536 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041547 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4155 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
41567 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4157 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
41587 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4159 command).
41607 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4161 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4162 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4163 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
41645 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4165 mappings.
41666 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4167 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4168 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4169
4170
4171Digraphs:
41727 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4173 Also the keymap?
4174- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4175 below/above).
4176- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4177 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000041788 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041797 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4180 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4181
4182
4183Writing files:
4184- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4185 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4186 shortname conversion.
41878 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
41888 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4189 file.
41908 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4191 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4192 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
41937 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
4194 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
41956 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4196 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
41976 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4198 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
41996 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4200 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042018 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004202 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
42037 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4204 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
42057 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4206 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4207 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4208 waiting for a character to be typed).
42098 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4210 line of the window, like "[time]".
4211 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4212 Automatic and/or with a command.
4213
4214
4215Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000042168 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4217 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042188 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004219 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4220- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4221- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
42228 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4223 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004224- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004225 :s///N substitutes N times.
4226- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4227 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4228 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
42297 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4230 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4231 last line column 5.
42325 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4233 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4234 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4235 (Stanislav Sitar)
4236
4237
4238Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042398 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
42407 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
42418 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4242 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4243 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4245- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4246 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4247- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4248- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4249
4250
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251Argument list:
42526 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4253 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4254 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
42556 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4256
4257
4258Registers:
42598 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
42608 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4261 around in windows.
42628 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4263 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4264 for every line.
42656 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4266 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4267 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4268- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4269 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4270- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4271 leader when line wraps?
4272- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4273 line in the range.
4274- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4275 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
42768 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4277 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004278
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004279
4280Debug mode:
42817 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
42828 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000042838 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004285 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4286 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4287 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042887 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
42897 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4290
4291
4292Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042938 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4294 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000042957 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4296 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4297 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4298 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4299 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4300 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4301 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004302 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000043037 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4304 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000043057 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4306 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4308 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043097 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4310 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4311 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004312- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004313 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043147 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4315 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043167 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4317 window as a buffer-tab selection.
43188 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043196 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
43207 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4321 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4322 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004323 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4324 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043257 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4326 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
43278 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4328 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043296 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4331 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4332 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4333 in this Vim.
43348 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004335 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043368 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4337 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4338 have it apply to the following command.
43398 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4340 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4341 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4342 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043437 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4344 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043457 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4346 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4347 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4348 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043496 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
43508 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
43519 Support ACLs on more systems.
43527 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4353 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043547 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4355 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4356 (truncated to fit in the space).
43577 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
43588 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
43598 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4360 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000043617 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004362 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
43637 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4364 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043667 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
43677 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043688 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
43698 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4370 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4371 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4372 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
43738 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
43746 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4375 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004376 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043778 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043788 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4379 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4380 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4381 does something like this. (Shah)
43827 Use growarray for replace stack.
43837 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4384 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
43853 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043867 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4387 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004388- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4389- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4390- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4391- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
43927 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4393 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4394- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4395 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4396- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4397- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4398 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4399- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4400 call "play newbeep.au").
4401- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4402 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4403 (Bhatt).
4404- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4405 blockwise registers).
4406- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4407 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4408- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4409 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4410 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4411 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004412- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044137 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4414 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4415- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4416 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4417 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4418 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4419 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044208 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4421 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044228 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4423 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4424 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4425 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4426 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4427- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004428- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044297 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4430 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4431- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4432 not in column 1.
44336 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4434 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
44357 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4436- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004437- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004438 :redir #> bufname
4439 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004440- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4441 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004442- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4443 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4444 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
44456 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4446 console? (Klaus Hast)
4447- Add :delcr command:
4448 *:delcr*
4449 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4450 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4451 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4452 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4453 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4454 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4455- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4456- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4457 characters from 'isprint'.
4458- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4459- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4460 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4461- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4462 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4463 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4464- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4465- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4466 Nvi).
4467- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4468 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
44697 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4470- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4471 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
44726 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4473- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4474 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4475 macro).
4476- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4478 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4479- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
44808 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4481- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4482- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4483- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4484- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4485 if it is not the first or last window.
4486- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4487 there is one) instead of the file itself.
44887 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4489 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4490 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4491- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4492- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004493 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004494 many percent down the windows).
4495- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4496 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4497 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4498- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4499 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4500- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4501 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4502- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4503- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4504- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4505 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4507 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4508 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4509 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4510 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004511- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4512 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4513- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004514 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4515- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004516 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4517 (Webb).
4518- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004519 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4521 hex codes like 0xff).
4522- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4523 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4524 the last TYPED command.
4525- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4526- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4527- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4528 should also work?
4529- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
45308 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4531 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4532 name.
4533- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4534 trailing '.'.
4535- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4536 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4537 find_file_in_path().
4538- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4539 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4540- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4541- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4542 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4543- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004544 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004545- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4546 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4547 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004548- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004549 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4550- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4551- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4552- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4553 to the minimal size.
4554- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4555- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4556- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4557- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4558- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4559- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4560- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4561 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4562- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4563 entered)?
4564- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4565 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004566- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004567- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4568- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4569- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4570- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4571- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4572 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004573- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045748 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4575 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4576 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4577 or in octal.
45787 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4579 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004580- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4582- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4583- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4584 insert line command).
4585- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4586- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4587- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4588- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4589- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4590 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004591- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004592 yet.
4593- Implement 'redraw' option.
4594- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4595 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045967 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4597 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004598 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4599 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046008 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4601 do it.
4602- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4603- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4604 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4605- Add text justification option.
4606- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4607- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4608 off".
4609- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4610- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4611- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004612 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004613- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004614- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004615- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4616- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4617 commands.
4618- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4619- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4620- :table command (Webb)
4621- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4623- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4624- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4625- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4626- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4627 (Demirel).
4628- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4629- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4630 for use in macro's and the like.
4631- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004632 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004633- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004634 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4635- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4636 read-only mode).
4637- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004638 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4640- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4641 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004642- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004643 mkopttab to make option table?
4644- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4645 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4646- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4647 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004648- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004649 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4650- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4651 cursor?
4652- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4653- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
46545 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4655 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046568 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4657 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4658 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4659 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4660 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046618 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4662 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4663 (Netherton)
46646 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4665 space after "(", for example.
46665 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4667 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4668 (Servatius Brandt)
4669
4670
4671From Elvis:
4672- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4673- Add ":alias" command.
4674- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4675- Search patterns:
4676 \@ match word under cursor.
4677 but do:
4678 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4679 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
46808 ":window" command:
4681 :win + next window (up)
4682 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4683 :win - previous window (down)
4684 :win -- idem, wrapping
4685 :win nr to window number "nr"
4686 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
46877 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4688 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4689
4690
4691From Nvi:
4692- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4693- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4694- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
46958 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4696- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
46976 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4698 :bg :hide
4699 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4700 :dis b :ls
4701 :Edit fname :split fname
4702 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4703 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4704 :Previous :sprevious
4705 :Tag :stag
4706
4707
4708From xvi:
4709- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4710- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4711
4712
4713From vile:
4714- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4715- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4716 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4717
4718
4719Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00004720- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4721 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4722 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4723 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4724 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004725- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4726 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4727- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4728 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4729 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4730 current layout mirrored.
4731- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4732- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4733 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4734- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4735- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4736 font in each top-level window.
4737- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4738- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4739- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4740- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4741 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4742- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4743 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4744 mentioned in the tags file.
4745 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4746 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4747- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4748 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4749- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4750 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
47514 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4752 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4753 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4754 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004755 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004756 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4757 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4758- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4759 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4760 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4761
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00004762When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4763empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004764
4765vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
4766vim: set fo+=n :