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Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Jan 23
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +010041Include ipv6 syntax changes? (DJ Lucas, #5360)
42
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020043Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +010044- Make it possible to put a terminal window in a popup. Would always grab key
45 input? Sort-of possible by creating a hidden terminal and opening a popup
46 with that buffer: #4063.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020047- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +010048- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
49 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
50- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020051- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020052 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
53- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +010054 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +010055- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020056
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020057Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020058- Text properties spanning more than one line
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +010059- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020060
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +010061'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020062- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
63 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010064- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
65 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020066- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020067- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020068- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
69 isn't one?
70 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
71
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020072Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010073- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020074- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010075- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020076
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020077Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020078- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010079- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
80 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020081- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010082- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020083- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
84 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
85 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010086- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010087- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
88 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010089 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010090 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020091
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020092Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +010093- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
94 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
95 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +010096- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010097- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
98 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020099- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
100 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200101- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200102- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200103- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
104 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200105- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
106 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
107- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
108 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200109- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
110 is disabled.
111- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
112- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
113 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200114- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
115 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
116 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
117- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
118- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
119 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
120- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
121 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200122
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200123Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100124E450, E451, E452,
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200125E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
126E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200127
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100128Patch to move duplicated code to a function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5330)
129
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100130Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
131
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200132Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
133manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
134Athena is OK.
135Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
136
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200137Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200138Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200139
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100140Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
141Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
142
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200143undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
144
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100145Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
146(Yegappan, #5465)
147
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200148Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
149
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100150:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
151Dec 19)
152
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200153Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200154
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100155Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
156May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200157Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
158remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200159Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100160Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200161
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100162Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
163(Max Rumpf, #5468)
164
165Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
166Fujiwara, #5469)
167
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200168Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100169Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
170in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200171Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
172(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200173
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100174Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
175ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
176
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100177Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
178(#4087)
179
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200180":helptags ALL" should skip directories where "tags" cannot be written.
181(Matěj Cepl, #5026)
182
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200183":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
184goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
185unlisted. (#4478)
186
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100187Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
188
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100189Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
190statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
191
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200192Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
193
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200194Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
195Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
196
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100197Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
198
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200199The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
200support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
201
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200202Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
203It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
204Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
205Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
206
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100207Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
208
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100209Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
210
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100211Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
212
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200213Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
214(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
215
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200216When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
217default one. #4698
218
219When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
220with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
221
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100222Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100223Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100224
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200225Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200226Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200227
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200228Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
229fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
230
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200231Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
232-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
233
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200234Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
235- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
236- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200237
238Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
23913, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200240
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200241Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
242
243Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
244
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100245Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
246
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100247When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
248when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
249gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
250input buffer. (#5302)
251
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200252xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
253buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
254Xterm 224 supports it!
255Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
256Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
257Also see issue #609.
258We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
259
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100260:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
261(#5467)
262
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200263Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200264
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100265Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
2662007 Feb 18)
267Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
268
269Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
270Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
271
272Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100273Implementation is too inefficient, avoid using lambda.
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100274
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200275Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
276
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200277Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
278Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200279
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100280Errors found with random data:
281 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100282
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200283Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
284change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
285patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
286(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
287
288Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
289Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
290
291Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
292
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200293Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
294files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
295Include part of #3242?
296
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200297When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
298it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
299
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200300Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
301Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
302Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
303
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100304":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
305window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
306#5443)
307
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200308Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
309(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
310Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
311- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
312 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
313 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
314- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
315 covered by the above change.
316So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
317same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
318Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200319
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200320Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
321t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
322
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100323v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
324(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
325
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100326Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
327Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
328
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200329'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
330
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200331"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
332(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
333
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200334Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
335
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100336Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
337
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200338Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
339
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100340When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
341in a long line. #5189
342
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200343The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
344Give a few examples. (#4288)
345
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200346Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
347work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
348
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200349Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
3507 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
351 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
352 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
353
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100354Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
355read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
356be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
357
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100358Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
359CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
360with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
361fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
362displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
363
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200364Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
365(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
366
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200367Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
368
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200369Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
370
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200371Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
372https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
373
374Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
375http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
376http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
377Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100378- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200379- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
380- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
381 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
382- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
383- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
384Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
385- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
386- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
387Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
388- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
389
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100390Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
391Mar 5)
392
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200393Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
394- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
395 line.
396- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
397 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
398- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
399 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
400
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200401Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
402on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
403
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200404Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
405in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
406buffer didn't change at all.
407
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200408Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
409register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
410(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
411
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200412Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
413(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
414
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200415Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
416":let buf = bufcreate('name')
417
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200418Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
419'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
420(#4450)
421
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100422When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
423But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
424similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
425
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200426C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
427(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
428
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100429Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
430added?
431
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200432Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
433maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
434
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200435Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
436negative. (see #4326)
437
438'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
439`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
440tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
441:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
442
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200443This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
444 vim: syn=nosyntax
445
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200446":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
447a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
448
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100449Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
450#2948. (related to #1512?)
451On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
452balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
45320, #2481)
454Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
455Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
456balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
4572018 Sep 14)
458Another request: #3811.
459
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200460More warnings from static analysis:
461https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200462
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100463Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
464
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200465Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
466
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200467Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
468internals of the dict structure.
469
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100470nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
471
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200472Missing tests for:
473- add_termcap_entry()
474
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200475Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
476change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
477them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
478
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100479Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
480Also run all tests with C locale?
481
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100482"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
483#3927
484
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200485Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200486Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200487
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100488When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
489case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
490For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
491
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200492Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
493(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
494expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200495
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200496Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
497 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
498 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
499
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100500Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100501punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100502
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200503ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
504
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200505Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
506":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
507#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
508Updated 2019 May 25.
509
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200510Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
511drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
512
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200513Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
514is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
515
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100516When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
517scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
518using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
519
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200520Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
521#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
522(Sep 8)
523
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200524Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
525unified diff (list of lines).
526
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100527When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
528kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
529when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
530
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100531Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
532(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100533
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100534Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
535
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200536Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200537Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200538memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200539Memory leak in test_terminal:
540==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
541==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
542==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
543==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
544==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
545==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
546==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
547==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
548==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200549TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100550Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200551Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
552Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200553
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200554gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200555
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200556matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
55719.
558
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100559Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100560Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100561Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
562highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200563And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
564'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100565Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
566Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100567
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100568Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
569Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
570
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200571Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
572Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
573Not ready to include.
574
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200575Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
576Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
577Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
578
579Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
580
581Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
582screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
583
584Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
585 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
586 Not ready to include.
587
588Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
589Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
590
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200591home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
592
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200593When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
594terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
595How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
596
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200597Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
598
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100599Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
600Feedback from someone who uses this?
601
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200602ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
603
604Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
605Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
606values.
607
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100608Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200609- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
610- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
611- omit diff.exe from distribution
612- Can we make this show differences within a line?
613- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200614
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200615Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
616
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100617Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
618What is the practical use for this?
619
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200620When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
621includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
622
623Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200624Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200625
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200626MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
627(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
628
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100629Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
630
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200631Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
632
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200633Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
634window for the buffer.
635
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200636Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
637when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
638
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100639Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
640mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
641
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200642Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
643
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200644Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
645modified buffers
646 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
647 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
648 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
649 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
650
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100651Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
652- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
653- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
654- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100655- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
656
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200657Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
658characters. (#3246)
659
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200660'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
661
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100662Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
663Oct 28)
664
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200665ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
666Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
667Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
668Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
669
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100670Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
671- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
672
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200673Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
674- Test_setbufvar_options()
675- Test_exit_callback_interval()
676
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200677Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
678Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100679Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
680Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200681
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200682Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
683
684Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
68524)
686
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100687Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100688 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100689or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100690 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
691
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100692Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100693mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100694
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200695Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
696is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
697used for git temp files.
698
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100699Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
700
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200701Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
702behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
703(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
704
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200705Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
706pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
707
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200708Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
709script or function.
710
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200711When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
712E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
713does nothing otherwise?
714
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200715MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
716If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
717(wait a little while).
718CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100719
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200720Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
721MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7222017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
723receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
724
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200725Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
726missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
727
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200728":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
729deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
730
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200731Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200732
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100733Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200734Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
735
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200736With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
737included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
738(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
739
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200740Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200741Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200742
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100743Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100744Jan 15, #2555)
745
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200746":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
747
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100748Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
749
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100750No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
751No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
752
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200753Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
754http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
755Should be supported with a flag.
756
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100757Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
758confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
759
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100760Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
761
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100762Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
763Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
764applying the diff, etc.
765
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200766Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
767Apr 26, #2849)
768
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100769User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
770word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100771
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100772Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200773
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200774With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
775(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
776
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200777Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
778:drop (remote commands).
779
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200780Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
7812018 Jun 18, #3027)
782
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200783Implement option_save() and option_restore():
784option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
785 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
786 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
787 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
788 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
789 be called when the same window is the current window.
790 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
791 the local options won't be restored.
792
793option_save({list}) *option_save()*
794 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
795 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
796 let s:saved_options = option_save([
797 \ 'ignorecase',
798 \ 'iskeyword',
799 \ ])
800 au <buffer> BufLeave *
801 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
802< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
803 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
804 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
805 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100806 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
807 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
808 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100809 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200810
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100811"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
812directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
813Also see #1689.
814
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100815crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
81617, #2652)
817
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100818When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100819highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100820
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200821":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
822
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100823No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8242017 Dec 26, #2501)
825
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200826A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
827
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200828Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
829
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200830A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
831Mention where they were defined somewhere.
832
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100833Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
834(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
835
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200836ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
837
838Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
839
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100840Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
841Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
842
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100843Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
844in #846)
845Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
846
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200847Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
848Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
849
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100850When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
851redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200852
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100853In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
854(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
855
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100856Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
857neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100858
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100859Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
860Nov 21)
861
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200862When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
863triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
864set_color_count().
865
866Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
867responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
868
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100869When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
870CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
871Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
872always nested.
873
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200874matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
875
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100876Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
877
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100878MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100879for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
880
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200881Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100882(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200883
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200884Test runtime files.
885Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200886
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200887Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200888
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200889Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
890defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
891Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
892
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200893After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
89413, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200895
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200896When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
897line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
898
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100899The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
900
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200901Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
902set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
903
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100904Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
905
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200906Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
907behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
908
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100909'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
910
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200911The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
912
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100913When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
914a command can delete it.
915
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200916Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
917#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
918
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100919The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
920for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
921
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200922X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
923pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
924clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
925Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
926Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
927clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200928Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200929
930Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
931
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200932Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
933attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
934that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
935
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200936Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
937(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
938
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100939Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
940buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
941Also fixes #2166?
942
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200943Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
944stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
945
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100946Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
947possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
948
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200949When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
950case of :bwipe followed by :new.
951
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200952Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
953existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
954Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
955
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200956Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200957
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200958MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
959Jul 4)
960
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200961Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
962Drucker, 2017 May 8).
963This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
964Christian cannot reproduce it.
965
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200966Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
967wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
968Or is this not an actual problem?
969
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200970Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
971
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200972Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
973
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200974Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
975
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200976'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
977#1736)
978
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200979Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9808, #1690)
981
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200982Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
983(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
984
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200985Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
986it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
987
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200988Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
989Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
990How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
991
992Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
993(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
994
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100995Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
996
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200997assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
998it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
999
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001000Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1001for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001002
1003Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1004(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1005Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1006later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1007Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1008mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001009Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1010mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001011maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001012
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001013Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001014plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1015be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1016
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001017Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1018 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1019 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001020
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001021json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001022What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001023
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001024Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1025
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001026import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1027(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1028
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001029When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1030buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1031Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001032
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001033Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1034Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001035Another example in #1309
1036
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001037When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1038when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1039
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001040Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1041#1330)
1042
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001043Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1044
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001045Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1046
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001047GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1048g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1049timer expires.
1050
1051Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1052
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001053Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1054highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1055
10568 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1057 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1058
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001059Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1060Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1061
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001062Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1063key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1064 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1065 echo keytrans(xx)
1066 <C-Home>
1067
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001068Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1069(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1070Make a function to check for function-like type?
1071
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001072Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1073(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1074
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001075Implement optional arguments for functions.
1076 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1077 call Foo(12)
1078 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1079 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001080
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001081Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1082somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1083
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001084Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1085(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1086
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001087Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001088Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001089Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001090
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001091The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1092"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1093Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1094
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001095Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1096
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001097Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1098about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001099Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1100
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001101Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1102#1053) With patch, does it work?
1103
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001104":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001105vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1106
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001107Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001108E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001109Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001110
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001111Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1112Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1113
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001114Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001115Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001116
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001117"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1118(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1119
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001120Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1121(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001122Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001123
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001124'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1125
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001126Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1127
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001128When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1129Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001130Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001131
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001132Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1133anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1134
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001135Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001136E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001137
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001138Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1139(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1140
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001141Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1142
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001143On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1144separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1145
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001146min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1147contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1148
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001149Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1150
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001151Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1152
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001153Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1154
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001155Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1156no longer support.
1157
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001158sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11594#1038)
1160
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001161+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001162- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001163- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1164 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1165 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001166- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1167 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001168- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1169- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1170 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1171- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1172 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1173- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001174- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1175 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001176- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1177- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1178 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1179 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1180- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1181- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1182- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1183 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1184 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1185- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1186 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1187- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1188 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1189 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1190
1191Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001192- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1193 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1194 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1195 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001196- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1197 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001198- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1199 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1200- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1201 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1202- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1203 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1204 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1205 LC_CTYPE
1206- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1207 matches everywhere.
1208- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1209 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1210- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1211- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1212 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1213- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1214- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1215 2013 Dec 11)
1216- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1217 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1218- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1219- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1220 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1221- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1222- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1223- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1224- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1225 2015 Feb 7)
1226- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1227 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1228 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1229 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1230 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1231- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1232- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1233- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1234- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1235 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1236 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1237 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1238- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1239 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1240- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1241 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1242 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1243 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1244
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001245Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1246#1350)
1247
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001248Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
12493. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1250Also see #1635.
1251
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001252Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001253Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1254use the current behavior.
1255Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001256
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001257When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1258command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1259
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001260Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1261doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1262Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001263Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001264E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1265
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001266execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001267#1141)
1268
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001269cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1270
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001271:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1272
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001273Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1274
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001275When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1276synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1277
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001278Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1279Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001280
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001281Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1282(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1283
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001284ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1285Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001286
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001287Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1288
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001289Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001290(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001291
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001292Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1293Jul 25, #948)
1294
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001295Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1296names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1297Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1298the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1299
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001300'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1301
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001302MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1303Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001304
1305Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1306Also for ":@.".
1307
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001308Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1309
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001310Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1311#1125
1312
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001313Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1314times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1315
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001316Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1317
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001318Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1319
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001320Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1321
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001322Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1323
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001324We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1325the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1326
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001327Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1328
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001329When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1330emoji_width table has only one entry.
1331
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001332It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1333Reject the value? #710.
1334
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001335When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1336Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1337
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001338Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001339
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001340Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1341No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001342
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001343Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1344(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001345
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001346Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1347
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001348Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1349https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1350Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1351
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001352Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1353but the reference remains valid.
1354
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001355Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001356interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1357Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1358interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1359result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001360
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001361Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001362work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001363
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001364Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1365
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001366Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1367
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001368Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1369Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1370
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001371When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1372Apr 17) #762
1373
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001374exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1375Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1376
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001377Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1378'iskeyword' for syntax.
1379
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001380Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1381(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1382
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001383Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1384
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001385When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1386maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001387Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001388
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001389Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1390It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1391Add configure check?
1392Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1393Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1394Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1395
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001396Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1397Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1398
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001399Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1400Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1401
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001402":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1403directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1404
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001405In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1406(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1407
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001408If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14092016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001410
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001411Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1412(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1413
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001414Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1415
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001416When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1417restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1418Do not trigger the event?
1419
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001420Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1421changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1422and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001423Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1424Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14256, 2nd message)
1426Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001427
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001428Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1429Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1430https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1431
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001432Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1433With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1434
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001435Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001436
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001437Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1438
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001439Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001440Only remembers one error.
1441
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001442GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001443
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001444Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1445(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001446
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001447Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1448github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001449 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001450Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001451
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001452Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001453
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001454Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001455comparing individual items.
1456Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1457Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1458Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1459equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1460
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001461Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1462
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001463MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1464wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1465
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001466Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1467specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1468
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001469Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1470(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1471
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001472Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001473inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001474
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001475Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1476(Luchr, #277)
1477
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001478Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001479'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1480before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001481
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001482C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1483and also line continuation after #include.
1484I can't recommend it though.
1485
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001486Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1487(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1488
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001489To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1490library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1491
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001492When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1493is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1494
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001495Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
149630)
1497
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001498MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1499(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1500
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001501The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
150224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001503
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001504":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1505effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1506
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001507":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15089)
1509
1510The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1511wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1512
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001513Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001514Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001515
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001516When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1517the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1518
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001519Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001520slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1521inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1522
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001523ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15242014 Sep 11)
1525
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001526Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1527(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1528
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001529When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1530'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1531
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001532Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1533Work in progress.
1534
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001535Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1536when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1537
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001538Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1539Is this right?
1540
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001541Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1542(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1543Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1544
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001545Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1546Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001547
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001548Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1549Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1550
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001551Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1552
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001553When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1554filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1555initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1556
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001557Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1558
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001559Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1560OK to not block marks?
1561
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001562Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1563
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001564Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1565
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001566When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1567(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1568
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001569Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001570
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001571Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1572(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1573
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001574When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1575any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1576
1577Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001578
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001579Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001580
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001581Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1582(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1583
1584Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1585
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001586Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1587Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1588was already defined.
1589(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1590
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001591Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1592
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001593Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001594Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001595Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001596Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001597
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001598Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1599(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1600
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001601Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1602(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1603
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001604Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1605
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001606When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1607these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1608window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1609
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001610Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1611should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1612history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1613Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1614
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001615"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1616Jun 8)
1617
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001618Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1619insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1620
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001621No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1622
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001623Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1624(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1625Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1626arguments.
1627
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001628Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1629
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001630Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001631
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001632Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
16330x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1634New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1635compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1636
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001637Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1638a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1639
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001640Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1641right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001642its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001643
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001644Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1645
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001646This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1647 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1648This neither: (ZyX)
1649 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1650
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001651'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1652Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1653from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001654
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001655Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16562014 Jun 8)
1657
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001658Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001659Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001660Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1661Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1662User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001663- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1664 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1665 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001666- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1667- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1668 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1669 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1670 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1671 on vim.org.
1672- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1673 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1674- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1675- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1676- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1677- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1678Implementation:
1679- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1680 plugin separate.
1681- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1682 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1683 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1684- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1685 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1686- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1687 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1688 installing.
1689Out of scope:
1690- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1691- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1692 useful).
1693
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001694Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1695normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001696
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001697When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1698menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1699
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001700Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1701(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1702
1703":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1704various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001705
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001706Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001707(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1708
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001709VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1710instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1711
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001712Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001713Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001714
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001715Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001716command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001717
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001718Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1719
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001720Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1721highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001722
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001723The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1724For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1725
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001726Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001727possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001728
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001729Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001730
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001731Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1732
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017337 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1734 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1735 "lucida_console:h8").
1736Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1737
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001738:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1739
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001740Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1741
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001742Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1743
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001744When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1745(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1746
1747Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001748Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001749
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001750GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1751(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1752
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001753Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1754registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1755
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001756Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1757
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001758The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1759(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1760Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1761
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001762The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1763- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1764- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1765
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001766Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1767Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1768reliably?
1769
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001770Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1771(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1772
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001773Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1774(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1775
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001776Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17772013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001778
1779Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1780
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001781Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17825)
1783
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001784Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1785carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1786
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001787Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1788highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1789
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001790Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001791
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001792Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200179328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001794
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001795Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1796
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001797Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1798
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001799- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1800 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1801Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001802
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001803Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001804
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001805In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1806process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1807a reboot.
1808
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001809patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1810
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001811Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1812not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001813
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001814Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1815Or use expand('<sid>')?
1816
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001817Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1818
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001819Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1820
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001821b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18227)
1823
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001824Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1825compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1826
1827Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1828Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1829vim.bindeval().
1830
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001831Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18322012 Aug 4)
1833
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001834Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1835(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1836
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001837Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1838But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1839
1840Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1841Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1842Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001843
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001844Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1845loading all files.
1846
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001847MS-Windows resizing problems:
1848- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1849 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1850- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1851 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1852 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001853
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001854'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001855
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001856Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001857of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1858
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001859The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1860Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1861But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001862
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001863When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1864is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1865
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001866URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001867- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001868- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1869 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1870
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001871Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1872(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1873Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1874
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001875Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001876New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001877
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001878When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1879for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1880Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001881
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001882Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1883
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001884Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1885
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001886Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1887Apr 18)
1888
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001889Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1890And one for gui_x11.txt.
1891
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001892":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1893finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1894Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1895
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001896Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1897
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001898Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1899
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001900Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1901they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1902
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001903Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1904
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001905Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1906Nov 20)
1907
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001908Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001909Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001910
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001911`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001912(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1913
1914Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1915
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001916BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1917Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1918
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001919Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1920Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1921
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001922Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1923
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001924On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19252012 Jun 19)
1926
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001927'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1928'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1929Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001930Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001931
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001932With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1933(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1934need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1935
1936Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1937only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
193821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1939
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001940Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1941New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1942
1943Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1944Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1945
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001946Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1947Jan 19)
1948
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001949Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1950discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1951meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001952
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001953"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001954Oct 26)
1955
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001956Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1957
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001958With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1959register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001960
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001961Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1962
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001963When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1964(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1965
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001966When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1967then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1968from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1969
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001970Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1971":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
197215)
1973
1974Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1975
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001976BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1977cleared. See test64.
1978
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001979Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001980effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001981Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001982https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001983
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001984On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
198564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1986right type.
1987
1988string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1989(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1990
1991When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1992(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001993When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1994following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1995(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001996
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001997When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1998doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1999
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002000Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2001
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002002maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2003mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2004
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002005Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2006(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2007
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002008When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2009indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2010the help file.
2011
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002012After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2013Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2014
2015Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2016
2017"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2018
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002019Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2020
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002021Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002022
2023Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20242010 Dec 18)
2025
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002026With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2027number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2028Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2029
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002030Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2031Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2032
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020338 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2034Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2035
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002036Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2037one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2038the match scrolls into view.
2039
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020407 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2041Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2042Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2043
20449 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2045 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2046Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2047
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002048Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2049Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2050
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002051In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2052or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2053sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2054
2055GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2056doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2057
2058GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2059
2060Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2061Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2062
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002063Wish for NetBeans commands:
2064 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2065
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002066Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2067
20687.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2069there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2070do?
2071
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002072Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
207322)
2074
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002075New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2076- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002077- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002078 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2079
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002080"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20812011 Feb 27)
2082
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002083Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2084^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2085
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002086When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2087exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20889) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2089
2090g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2091the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2092
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002093Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2094crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2095
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002096Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2097number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2098
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002099Regexp engine performance:
2100- Profiling:
2101 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2102 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2103 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2104 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2105 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2106 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2107- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2108- Performance tests:
2109 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2110 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2111 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2112 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2113 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2114 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2115 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2116 'hlsearch'.
2117 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2118 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2119 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2120 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2121
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002122Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2123Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2124
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002125'beval' option should be global-local.
2126
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002127Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002128
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002129setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002130
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002131With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21322010 Oct 24)
2133
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002134Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2135
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002136When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2137Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2138
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002139":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2140
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002141'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2142
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002143C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2144checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2145Issue 46.
2146
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002147Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2148
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002149Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2150gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2151
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002152":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2153accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2154
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002155Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2156setwinvar().
2157
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002158Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002159
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002160When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2161instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2162
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002163Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2164Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2165Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002166
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002167Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2168back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2169
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002170Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002171Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2172
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002173CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2174the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2175FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2176
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002177Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2178Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2179
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002180Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2181Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2182
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002183Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2184
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002185Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2186non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002187
2188iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2189Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2190or replace with a character and continue?
2191
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002192Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2193Requires configure check for localtime().
2194Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2195
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002196Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2197Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2198
2199Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2200
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002201Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2202Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2203path.
2204
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002205Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002206Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002207
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002208'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2209
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002210":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2211like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2212
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002213Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2214https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002215
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002216Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22172010 Nov 5)
2218
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002219Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002220Jan 7)
2221
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002222Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2223
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002224With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2225entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2226Feb 12)
2227
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002228Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2229characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2230
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002231Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2232
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002233Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2234 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2235
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002236Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2237
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002238When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2239Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2240
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002241When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2242not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2243string value.
2244
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002245For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002246line argument -noregister.
2247
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002248When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2249missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2250
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002251When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2252doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002253
2254Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2255(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2256Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2257There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2258Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2259
2260":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2261highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2262to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2263
2264Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2265Probably needs a bit of work.
2266
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002267List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002268Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2269
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002270Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2271
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2273
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002274Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2275Sep 1)
2276
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002277Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2278
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002279Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2280on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2281
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22832009 Jul 18)
2284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2286window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2287Needs more work.
2288
2289Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2290
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002291When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2292few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2293
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002294'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002295(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2296
2297Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2298J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2299
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002300When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2301for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2302
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002303Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2304
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002305":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2306because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2307ex_docmd.c.
2308
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002309Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002310Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2311
2312string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2313for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2314
2315Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2316
2317'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
231820)
2319
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002320Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23212009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2322
2323Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2324
2325Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2326SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2327
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002328When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2329indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2330(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2331
2332Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2333are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2334Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2335Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2336that doesn't have a window.
2337
2338When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2339doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2340
2341getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2342displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2343
2344":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2345
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002346There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2347was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2348perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2349
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002350Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2351
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002352Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2353command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002355Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2356does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2357
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002358opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2359height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002360very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002362Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2363(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2364
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002365Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002366(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2369char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2370
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002371Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2372Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2373
2374This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2375
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2377messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2378es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23792009 Jan 26)
2380
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002381When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002382in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2383Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2384
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2386a modeline.
2387
2388Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2389Sergey Khorev)
2390
2391Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2392part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002394After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2395correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2396
2397Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2398(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2399
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002400shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002401'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2402Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2403unix-like shell?
2404
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002405Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2406register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2407(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2408
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002409Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2410Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2411
2412Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2413make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2414
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002415When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2416still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2417
2418"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2419(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2422that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2423ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2424Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2427doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2428probably causes this.
2429
2430'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024312009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002432
2433Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2434 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2435 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2436(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2437
2438Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2439":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2440option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2441is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002443":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2444first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002445Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002446
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002447Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2448laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2449Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2452anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2453
2454On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2455doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2456Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2457Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2458
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002459When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2460'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2461fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2462the buffer to be unmodified.
2463Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2464another look at it.
2465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002466c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2467(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2470error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2471Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2472at the other match for 0xBF.
2473
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002474When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2475argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2476
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002477Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2478backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2479
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002480When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2481line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2482
2483Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2484position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002486After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2487(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002488command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002490":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2491Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2492
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002493When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2494either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2495put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2496
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002497Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2498Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2499Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2500Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2501(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2502
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002503Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2504
2505ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002506
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002507Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2508(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2509escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2510an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002511This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2512July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002513Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2514work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2515
2516When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
251731)
2518
2519Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2520work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2521Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002522
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002523Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2524multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2525(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002527Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25282008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002529Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002530
2531Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2532Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2533'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2534
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002535Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2536Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2537
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002538Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2539Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2540
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025418 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2542 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2543 several).
2544 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2545 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2546 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2547Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2548
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002549The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002550 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002551 0x2217, star
2552 0x2500, bar
2553 0x26ab, circle
2554
2555Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2556line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2557
2558GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2559Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2560
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002561Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2562try the Cocoa version.
2563
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002564Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2565changed or the window is resized.
2566
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002567GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2568the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2569
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002570Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2571Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002573Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25741) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2575
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2577with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2578Try to reproduce at work.
2579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2581Is there a way to list all the files first?
2582
2583When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2584result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
258516)
2586
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002587Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2588(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2589
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002590Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2591Await response to question to make the register writable.
2592
2593Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25941)
2595
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002596In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2597each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2598
2599try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2600
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002601try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002603":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2604Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002606Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2607
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2609Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2610
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002611Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2612Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2613Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002614
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002615When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2616and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2617
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002618Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2619 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2620
2621New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2622
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002623":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2624a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2625
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002626'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2627Likonen, March 19)
2628
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002629Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2630other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2631
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002632The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2633appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2634matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2635
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002636When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2637character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2638'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2639(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2640
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002641Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2642Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002643
2644More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2645
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002646Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2647http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2648
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002649Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2650back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2651Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652
2653Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2654No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2655
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002656Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2657terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002658
2659Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2660
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002661Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2662but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2663that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002664
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002665Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2666Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2667
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002668Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2669popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2670size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2671This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2672
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002673When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2674it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2675
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002676Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2677then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2678files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002679Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2680indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2681":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002682in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2683quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002684Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002685
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002686When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2687parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2688neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2689particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2690Jun 3)
2691However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2692the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002694A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2695Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2696
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002697Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2698Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2699
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002700Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2701switch list is noticed:
2702 switch (i)
2703 {
2704 case 1:
2705 foobar:
2706 }
2707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002710Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2711with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2712go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2713moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2714
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002715Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002716GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002717Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2718argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2719(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2720
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002721Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2722(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2723
2724Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2725makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2726.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002727 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002728
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002729Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27302007 Feb 8)
2731
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002732Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2733set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002735Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2738Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2739New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2740patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2741
2742Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2743Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2744
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002746label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2747
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002748Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2749with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2750Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002751
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002752Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2753
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002754Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2755Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2756only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2759Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002760Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002761properly?
2762
2763Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27642007 Jun 21)
2765
2766When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2767Jun 18)
2768
2769If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2770
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002771Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2772windows. (Adam George)
2773
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2775the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2776
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002777C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2778
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002779":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2780
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002781When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002782error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002783
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002784GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002785use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2786
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002787Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2788if_ruby.c.
2789
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002790":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2791
2792The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2793it in keep_msg?
2794
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002795Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002796error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002797name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2798
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002799Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2800longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002801
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002802Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2803Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2804Also for ":w" without a file name.
2805The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002806
2807"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2808Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2809
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2811directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2812(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2813
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002814VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2817name?
2818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002819Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2822(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002823Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2825
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002826gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2827This also fails with --remote.
2828
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002829When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28302008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2831all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2832
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002833aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2834
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002835When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2836(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2837
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002838Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2839the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2840
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002841GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2842
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002843Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2844superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2845
2846Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2847character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2848
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002849Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2850Jun 5)
2851
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002852Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28532008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2854Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2855
2856In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2857but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2858Jul 22)
2859
2860There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2861
2862Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2863":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2864somehow? Or use a new function.
2865
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002866Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2867
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2869moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2870that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002872The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2873
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002874When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002875cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2876the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2879 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2880 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2881 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2882
2883Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2884partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2885
2886In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2887buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2888reload it then?
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2891
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002892Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2893only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2894
2895Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2896tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2897doesn't contain other directories.
2898
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002899Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2900Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2901
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002902Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2903 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2904 set background=dark
2905This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2906color is, not reset it.
2907
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002908Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2909start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2910show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2911middle?
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2914
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002915When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2916current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2917the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2918
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002919When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2920Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2921
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002922Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2923Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2924
2925Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2926
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002927A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2928Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2929
2930Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2931Dara, 2006 June 21)
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2934number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2937the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2938
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002939Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002940
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002941Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2942Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2943
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002944Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029452008 Sep 29)
2946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2948check the result of has("patch13").
2949
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002950Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2951restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2952
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002953Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2954and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2955
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2957put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2958
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002959Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2960resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2961
2962In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2963can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2964
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002965GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2966maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2967doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002968Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2969visible.
2970
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002971When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2972differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002973
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002974The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2975be only one.
2976
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002977Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002978"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2979name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2980Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002981
2982Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2983(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2984
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002985Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2986as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2987
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002988Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
298923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002990
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002991":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2992tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2993Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002995When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2996text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2997latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2998
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002999Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3000no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3001
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003002In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3003VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30042007 Oct 16)
3005
3006TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3007Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3008
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003009Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003010
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003011When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3012typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3013Sep 3, 11)
3014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003015":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3016this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3017
3018When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3019Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3020restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3021
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003022Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30232010 Jun 30)
3024
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003025Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3026'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3027(Kartik Agaram)
3028
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003029
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003030Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003031- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3032 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3033- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3034 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3035 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3036- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3037 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3038 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003039- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3040- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003041
3042
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003043More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003044- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3045 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003046- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003047- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3048 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003049- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3050- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3051- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3052 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3053 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003054- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003055- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3056 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3057- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3058 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3059- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3060 21)
3061- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3062 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3063- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3064 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003065- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3066 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003067- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3068 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3069 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3070 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3071 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003072- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003073
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003074Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030759 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3076 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3077 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3078 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3079 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3080 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3081 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3082 (Alan Schmitt)
3083 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003084 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3085 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030869 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003087 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030888 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030897 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3090 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3091 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030928 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003093 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030947 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003095 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3096- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3097 for multi-byte characters.
3098- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3099- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3100 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3101 been given values.
3102 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031037 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3104 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3105- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3106 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3107 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31088 Add functions:
3109 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3110 Update 2004 Sep 10
3111 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3112 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003113 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003114 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3115 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3116 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3117 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3118 (2003 May 13)
3119 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3120 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003121 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3122 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003123 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3124 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3125 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031267 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3127 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031287 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3129 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031308 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3131 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031327 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31338 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3134 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31357 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3136 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031377 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3138- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3139 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3140 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003141- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3142 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3143- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3144
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003145Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3146- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3147 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3148
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003149Quickfix/Location List:
3150- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3151 #2999)
3152- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3153 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3154 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3155 the quickfix buffer?
3156- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3157 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3158- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3159 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3160- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3161 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3162 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3163- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3164 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3165- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3166- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3167 2007 Jan 1)
3168- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3169 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3170- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3171 errors. How do we get the rest?
31728 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3173 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3174 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3175 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31767 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3177 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003178
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003179Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003180- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3181 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031828 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3183 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3184 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3185 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3186 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3187 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031888 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3189 make Vim exit.
31907 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3191 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3192 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31938 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3194 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3195 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31966 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3197 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3198 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31998 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3200 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3201 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3202 names in one buffer???
3203 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3204 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3205 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32067 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3207 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3208 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003209 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3210 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032117 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3212 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32137 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32147 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032157 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3216 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3217 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3218 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32197 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32207 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32217 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3222 to the match with the tag? Option?
32237 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32247 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3225 (Sayre).
32267 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3227 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032287 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3229 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3230 match. Nvi can do it too.
32317 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3232 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3233 line 1\ line 2\\
3234 line 2\ line 3\\
3235 . line4/
32366 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3237 the way the shell is started?
32386 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3239 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3240
3241
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003242GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032439 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032448 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3245 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3246 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032478 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3248 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3249 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032509 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3251 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3252 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3253 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003254- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3255 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3256 blocked for now.
3257
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003258
3259Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003260- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3261 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032628 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3263 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3264 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032656 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3266 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032678 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3268 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3269 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032707 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3271 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3272 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032737 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3274 2004 May 9)
32758 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3276 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3277 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3278 MS-Windows 98?
3279 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3280 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3281 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3282 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032838 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3284 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3285 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3286 doesn't work properly.
32878 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3288 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3289 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32909 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3291 button doesn't give popup menu.
3292 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3293 selection.
3294 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3295 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3296 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32978 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3298 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3299 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3300 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33018 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3302 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3303 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033047 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3305 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003306 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033077 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3308 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033096 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33108 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3311 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3312 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33138 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3314 know which keyboard is being used?
33157 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3316 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3317 area (Koloseike).
33188 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3319 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3320 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3321 the font name).
3322
3323
3324Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033256 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3326 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3327 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3328 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3329 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033309 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3331 required and it's missing?
33328 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3333 wrong.
33349 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3335 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033369 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003337 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3338 flag.
33398 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3340 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3341 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33428 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33436 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3344 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3345 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3346 the tooltips work though...
33477 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3348 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33498 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3350 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3351 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3352
3353
3354Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033559 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3356 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033579 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3358 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3359 through files.
33607 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3361 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33624 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3363 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3364 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3365 problem during a refresh.
33665 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3367 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3368 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3369 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3370 colors as it should.
3371 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3372 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3373
3374
3375Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003376- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033777 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3378 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033798 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3380 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3381 (Phillipps)
3382
3383
3384GUI:
33859 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3386 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33879 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003388 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003389 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33909 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3391 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33928 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3393 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33948 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3395 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3396 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33978 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3398 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3399 of where it is processing the output.
3400 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34018 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3402 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034038 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034048 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3405 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3406 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034078 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034088 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3409 browse().
34108 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3411 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34128 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3413 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034147 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3415 - regexp on/off
3416 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3417 when all buffers/directory is used:
3418 - filter for file name
3419 when directory is used:
3420 - subdirectory on/off
3421 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034228 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3423 to avoid problems.
34248 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3425 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3426 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34278 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3428 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3429 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34308 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3431 up. Set erase character somehow?
34328 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3433 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3434 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3435 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34368 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34377 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3438 visible.
34397 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3440 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34417 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3442 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34438 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3444 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34458 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3446 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3447 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3448 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3449- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34504 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3451 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3452 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3453
3454
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003455Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034568 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3457 a good fallback, thus use:
3458 $HOME
3459 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3460 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3461 $USERPROFILE
3462 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3463 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3464 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3465 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034668 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3467 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34688 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3469 Should work like in the GUI version.
34708 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3471 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34728 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3473 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34748 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3475 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3476 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034778 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3478 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3479 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3480
3481
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003482Win32 console:
34839 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3484 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3485 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3486 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3487 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3488 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3489 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3490 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3491 and the file is not saved.
3492 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3493 long name.
34948 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3495 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34967 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3497 besides the console.
34988 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34999 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3500 <C-S-i>?
35019 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3502 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35038 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3504 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003505
3506
3507Amiga:
35088 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3509 sequences.
35109 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3511 backslashes in result.
35128 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3513 all options, using white space separation.
3514
3515
3516Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003517- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035187 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3519 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3520 (Jack)
3521 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035228 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3523 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035248 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35258 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35269 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3527 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035289 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003529
3530
3531"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003532- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3533 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003534- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3535 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003536- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3537 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3538 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3539 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3540 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3541 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3542 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035439 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3544 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035459 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003546 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3547 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035488 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3549 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3550 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003551 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035527 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3553 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35548 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3555 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3556 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035577 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3558 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003559- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3560 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035618 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3562 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3563 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3564 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35657 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3566 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3567 invocations belong together.
35688 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3569 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35708 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3571 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3572 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003573 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035748 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3575 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3576 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035778 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3578 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035797 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3580 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3581 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3582 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035837 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3584 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3585 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35867 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3587 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3588 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35897 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3590 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035917 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3592 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035939 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3594 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3595 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3596 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3597 script can be called.
35988 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3599 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3600 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036018 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3602 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036038 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003604 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3605 configurable?
36068 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036078 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3608 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036098 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3610 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3612 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036139 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3614 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3615 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036167 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036178 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3618 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3619 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036208 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3621 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003622 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3623 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036248 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3625 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36269 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3627 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3628 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003629 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036307 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3631 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036327 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3633 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3634 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3635 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036368 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003637 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3638 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3639 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3640 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3642 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003643 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003644 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3646 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3647 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3648 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3649 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036508 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3651 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36528 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3653 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36548 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3655 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3656 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36578 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3658 'linebreak'.
36598 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3660 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3661 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036629 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3663 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3664 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3665 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36669 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3667 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036689 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36699 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3670 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3671 cause another redraw, etc.
36728 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3673 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36748 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3675 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3676 ":w!!" for that.
3677 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3678 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003679 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036807 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3681 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3682 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3683 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3684 clipboard)
36857 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3686 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3687 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036886 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3689 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3690 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036918 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3692 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36938 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3694 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3695 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36968 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3697 (e.g., ":w").
36988 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3699 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037008 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3701 script in do_cmdline().
37028 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3703 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3704 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3705 changes.
37068 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3707 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37088 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3709 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3711 to skip catch_signals()?
37129 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3713 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3714 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3715 text?
37168 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3717 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37188 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3719 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37209 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3721 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3722 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3723 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3724 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37257 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3726 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3727 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3728 in the list?
37298 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3730 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3731 instead of on button down.
37328 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37339 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3734 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003735 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3736 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037378 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3738 character is typed.
37398 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3740 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37418 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3742 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37438 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3744 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3745 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3746 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3747 cygwin bash.
37487 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3749 Remember flags for backreferences.
37507 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3751 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37527 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3753 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37548 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3755 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37567 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3757 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037587 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3759 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3760 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37617 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3762 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37638 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3764 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3765 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37667 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3767 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003768
3769
3770I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37719 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3772 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3773 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003774
3775
3776Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003777- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3778 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3779 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003780- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3781 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3782 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3783 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3784 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3785 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003786 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003787- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3788 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003789 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003790 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3791 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3792 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003793- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3794 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3795 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3796 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3797 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3798- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3799 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3800 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3801- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3802 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003803- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003804- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3805 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3806 character gets the highlighting.
3807- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3808 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3809- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3810 (Jennings)
3811- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003812- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003813- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003814 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003815- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3816 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3817 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3818- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3819 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3820 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3821 (Benzinger).
3822- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3823 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3824 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3825- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3826 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3827- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3828 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3829- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3830 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3831 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3832 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3833 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3834 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3835- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3836 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3837 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003838- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3839 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3840 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3842 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3843 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3844- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3845 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3846- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3847 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003848- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3849 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3850- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3851 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3852 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3853 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3854 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3855- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3856 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3857 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3858- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3859 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3860 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003861- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3862 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 +00003863- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3864 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3865 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3866 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3867 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3868- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3869 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3870
3871--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3872 *extensions-improvements*
3873
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003874Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3875- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3876 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3877 calling a function.
3878 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3879 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003880- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3881 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003882 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003883- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3884 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3885 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3886 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3887 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3888 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003889 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003890- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3891 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3892 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003893- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3894 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038958 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3896 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3897 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3898 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003899- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3900 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003901
3902
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003903Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039048 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3905 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039068 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3907 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039088 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3909 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039108 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039119 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3912 - change to cursor position and curswant
3913 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3914 - how it works for folded lines
3915 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39169 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3917 work too.
39188 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3919 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3920 text.
39218 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39227 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3923 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39247 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3925 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003926 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003927- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3928
3929
3930Help:
3931- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3932 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3933- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3934 to the other matches.
3935- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003936- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3937 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3938 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3939 default contents.
3940- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3941 height for the help window (and other windows).
3942- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3943- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3944- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3945
3946
3947User Friendlier:
39488 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3949 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3950 Briscoe)
39518 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39528 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3953 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3954 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39558 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3956 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3957- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3958 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39609 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3961 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3962 item?).
3963 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039648 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039657 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3966 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3967 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039688 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3969 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3970 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3971 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003972
3973
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003974Tab pages:
39759 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039767 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3977 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039788 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039798 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039807 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039817 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003982 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039838 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3984 tab pages.
39857 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3986
3987
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003988Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003989- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003990 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003991- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3992 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3993 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3994- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3995 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003996- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3997 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3998 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003999- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4000 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4001 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004002- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4003 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004004- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004005 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4006 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040078 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4008 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40098 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4010 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40118 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4012 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004013 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004014 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4015 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4016 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4017 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004018- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4019 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004020- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004021- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4022 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004023- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004024 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004025- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004026 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004027- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4028 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004029- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4030 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4031- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004032 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004033 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4034 in the affix file separately.
4035 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004036 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004037 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4038 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4039 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4040- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4041 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4042 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4043 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4044 Alternative:
4045 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4046 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4047 affix which is required.
4048- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004049 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004050- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4051 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4052 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004053- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4054 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004055- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4056 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4057- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040588 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4059 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4060 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4061 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004062- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4063 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4064 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4065 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040668 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4067 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040688 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40698 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4070 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040717 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40728 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4073 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4074 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4075 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004076
4077
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004078Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040799 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4080 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040818 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004082 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004083
4084Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004085 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4086 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040878 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4088 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040898 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4090 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040918 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4092 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4093 user aware of this?
40948 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4095 commands skip over a closed fold.
40968 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40978 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040987 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004099- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4100 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4101 missing line goes unnoticed.
4102 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4104 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4105 smoother?
4106- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4107 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004108- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4109 file can contain:
4110 args version.c main.c
4111 edit version.c
4112 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004113- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004114- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4115 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004116- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4117 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004118- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4119 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004120- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004121
4122Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004123- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4124 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4125 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4126 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041279 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4128 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4129 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4130 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041319 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4132 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4133 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041348 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4135 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4136 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4137 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4138 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4139 item.
41408 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004141 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4142 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041438 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4144 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041458 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4146 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4147 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041487 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4149 so that the user can fix the problem.
41508 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4151 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041529 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41538 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041548 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41558 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041567 Searching and composing characters:
4157 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004158 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4159 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041608 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41618 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41628 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4163 characters.
41648 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41658 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4166 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41677 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4168 'display' option to specify this.
41697 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4170 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4171- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4172 fontselector somehow.
4173- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4174 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4175- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4176 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4177- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4178 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4179 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4180 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4181 if a font exists?
4182- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004183 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004184- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4185 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004186- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4187 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4188 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4189 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004190- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4191 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004192 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004193- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4194 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4195 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4196 But it's very complicated...
4197
4198
4199Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042007 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4202- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4203 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004204- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4205 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4207- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4208 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004209- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4210 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004211- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4212 units as for the margins.
4213- Support right-to-left text?
42148 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4215 color.
4216
4217
4218Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042198 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4220 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42218 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4222 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42238 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4224 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042257 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4226 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042278 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4228 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4229 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042307 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4231 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4232 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042338 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42349 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4235 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042367 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4237 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042387 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4239 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042408 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4241 change this for each release.
42428 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4243 pattern, but not in the body.
42448 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4245 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4246 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042478 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042488 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004249 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4250 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042518 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4252 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42538 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4254 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004255 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4257 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4258 used.
42598 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4260 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42618 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4262 re-insert the [] if possible.
42638 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4264 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042658 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4266 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4267 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4268 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4269 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042708 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4271 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42728 Support for deleting syntax items:
4273 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4274 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4275 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42768 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4277 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4278 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42797 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4280 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4281 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42827 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4283 detected.
42848 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004285 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042868 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4287 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042888 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42898 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42907 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4291 ":mkvimrc".
42928 Improve c.vim:
4293 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4294 "c_strict_ansi".
4295 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42968 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4297 current line while in Insert mode.
42988 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4299 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43008 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4301 display position.
43028 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4303 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4304 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43058 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4306 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4307 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043087 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4309 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4310 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4311 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4312 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043137 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4314 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4315 E.g. for this html:
4316 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043177 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43187 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4319 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043208 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43218 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043227 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4323 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4324 completion?
43258 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4326 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43277 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4328 select one of the sets.
43298 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4330 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4331 2, etc.
43328 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4333 highlighting (for "." command).
43348 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4335 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43368 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43377 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4338 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43396 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4340 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4341- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4342 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4343- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004344- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4345 (for comment blocks).
4346- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4347 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4348 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4349 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4350 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4351 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4352 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4353 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4354 (Campbell)
4355 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4356 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43577 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4358 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43597 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4360 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4361 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43627 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4363 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4364 messages. And external commands?
43658 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4366 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43677 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4368 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4369
4370
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004371Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043728 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4373 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004374 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043757 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4376 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4377 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043788 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4379 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004380- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043818 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4382 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4383 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4384 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4385 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4386 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043877 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4388 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043898 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043908 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4391 can be the plugin name.
4392 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4393 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043947 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4395 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4396 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4397 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4398 autocommand.
4399 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4400 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4401 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4402 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044037 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4404 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044056 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4406 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044078 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004408 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4409 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004410 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4411 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4412 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004413 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4414 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4415 3 2002
4416 Only add this when also implemented for
4417 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4418 be used.
4419 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004420 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4421 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4422 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4423 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4424 File.Open..." argument.
4425 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4426 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4427 with properties instead.
4428 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4429 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4430 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004431 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004432 crypt() encrypt string
4433 decrypt() decrypt string
4434 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4435 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004436 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004437 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004438 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004439 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004440 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004441 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4442 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004443 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4444 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004446 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4447 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4448 to allow the library to execute a command or
4449 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044507 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4451 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44528 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4453 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044548 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4455 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044568 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044579 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004458 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44596 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044608 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4461 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044628 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4463 option or environment variable.
44648 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044658 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004466 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044677 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4468 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044698 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4470 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44718 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44728 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4473 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4474 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4475 charwise({expr}).
44767 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4477 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4478 buffer for this?
4479 result = scratch(string, command)
4480 result = apply(string, command)
4481 result = execute(string, command)
4482 "command" would use <> notation.
4483 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44847 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004485
4486
4487Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044886 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4489 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4490 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4491 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4492 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4493 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4494 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004495
4496
4497Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044987 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4499 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045007 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4501 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4502 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4503 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045048 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4505 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4506 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4507 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004508 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045098 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45109 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45118 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45127 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4513 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45148 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4515 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4516 when starting up in a color terminal.
45178 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4518 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045198 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4520 function be improved?
45218 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4522 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4523 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4524 this be improved?
45258 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4526 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045277 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4528 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045297 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4530 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45317 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4532 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045337 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4534 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4535 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4536 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4537 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4538 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4539 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045408 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4541 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4542 using strcmp() too often?
45437 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4544 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4545 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4546 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4547 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4548 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45497 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4550 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4551 with an argument that can be messed with.
4552 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4553 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45547 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4555- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45568 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4557 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4558- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4559 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4560- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4561- Do profiling on:
4562 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4564 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4565 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4566 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4567 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4568 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004569 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045707 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4571 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4572 changed).
4573 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4574 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4575- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4576- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4577 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4578- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4579 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4580 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4582- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4583 cursor is right of the screen.
45848 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4585 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4586
4587
4588Code size:
45898 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4590- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4591 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45928 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45938 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4594 it.
45957 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4596 left out.
45978 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4598 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045998 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004600
4601
4602Messages:
46038 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4604 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46058 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4606 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46078 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4608 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004609- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4610 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4611- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046128 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4613 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046149 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4615 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4616 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4617 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4618 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046198 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4620 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46218 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4622 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4623 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4624 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4625 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4626 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004627- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004628 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046298 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4630 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4631 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4632 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4633 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4634 error messages, printing text, etc.
46358 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4636 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4637 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4638
4639
4640Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004641- screen_line():
4642 - insert/delete character stuff.
4643 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4644- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4645 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4646- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4647 waiting for a character.
46488 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4649 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4650 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004651
4652Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046538 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046546 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4655- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4656 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4657 windows.
46587 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4659 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4660 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4661- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4662 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4663 (Goldfarb)
4664- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4665 bound windows.
4666- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4667 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004668- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004669- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4670 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4671 of lines but not with a single line).
4672
4673
4674Autoconf:
46758 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46768 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4677 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4678- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4679 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4680- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4681- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4682- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4683
4684
4685Perl interface:
46868 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046877 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46887 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46896 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4690
4691
4692Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046938 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4694 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046956 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4696 :libload internal-name libname
4697 :libunload internal-name
4698 :liblist
4699 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4700 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4701 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47026 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4703
4704
4705Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047069 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4707 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4708 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4709 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4710 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047118 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4712 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4713 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004714 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004715 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047167 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4717 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4718 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047198 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47208 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4721 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4723 window for each tag.
47247 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47257 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4726 bottom" search message.
47277 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4728 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4729 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004730- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4731- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004732- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4733 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4734 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047357 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4736 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4737 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4738 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47397 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4740 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4741 :tagargs clear
4742 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4743 matching).
47447 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4745 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4746 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4747 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47487 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4749 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47507 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4751 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4752 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004753
4754
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004755Win32 GUI:
47568 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4757 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047587 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4759 (Mike McCollister)
47608 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4761 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4762 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4763 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4764 common part of the path.
47658 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47668 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4767 gettext and menus work.
47688 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4769 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004770 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004771 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47728 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4773 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47748 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4775 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47767 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4777 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47787 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47797 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47807 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4781 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4782 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4783 prompts.
47847 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4785 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4786 the file added into an already running Vim.
47877 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4788 functions to find the window title.
4789
4790
4791GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047928 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004793- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4794 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47957 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47968 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47976 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47988 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4799 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48009 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48017 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48028 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4803 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48048 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4805 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4806 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48078 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4808 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48098 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4810 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4811 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4812 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048137 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48148 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4815 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048167 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4817 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4818 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048198 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48208 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004821 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048228 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48238 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48248 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4825 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4826 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48277 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4828 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4829 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48307 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4831 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48327 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4833 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4834 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4835 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048367 Should support multi-column menus.
4837- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4838 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4839- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48408 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48416 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4842 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48437 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48447 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4845 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4846 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48477 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48488 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4849 name can be chosen free.
48507 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4851 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48526 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4853 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4854 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4855 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4856 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4857 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4858 things.
48597 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4860 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048617 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004862 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004863- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4864 where it was started from?
48657 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4866
4867
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004868Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048699 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4870 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004871- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048728 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4873 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4874 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4875 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48768 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4877 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048787 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4879 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4880 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4881 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048827 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048838 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4884 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048858 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4886 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4887 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048887 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4889 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4890 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048918 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4892 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4893 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048948 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4895 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048968 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048976 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4898 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048997 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049007 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004901 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4902 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4903 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049045 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4905 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4906 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49077 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4908 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4909 file.
49108 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4911 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4912 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004913- Add events to autocommands:
4914 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004915 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004916 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4917 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004918 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004919 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004920 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4921 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4922 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4923 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004925 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4926 the char.
4927 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4928 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4929 file from CVS).
4930 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4931 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4932 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4933 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4934 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4935 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004936 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4937 changes.
4938 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4939 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004940- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004942 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4944 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4945 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4946 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4947 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4948
4949
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004950Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004951- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4952 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004953- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4954 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4955 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4956 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4957 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004958- Ideas from others:
4959 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4960 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4961 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4962 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4963 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4964 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4965 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4966 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4967 Uses Perl for C++.
4968 Uses ctags to find the info:
4969 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4970 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4971 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4972 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4973 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4974 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004975 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004976 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4977- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4978
4979
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004980Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004981- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049827 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4983 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049847 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4985 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4986 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049878 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4988 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49899 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4990 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4991 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049928 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4993 - ignore/match case
4994 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049958 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4996 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4997 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4998 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4999 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5000 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050018 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050027 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5003 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050048 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5005 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5006 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5007 Should work for C++ and Java.
5008 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50097 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50107 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5011 instead of words.
50128 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50138 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5014 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50158 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5016 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005017- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5018 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005019- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5020 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5021 wildcards in the file name)?
5022- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5023- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5024- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5025 be in another file).
5026- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5027- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5028- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5029 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5030- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5031- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5032- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005033- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5034
5035
5036Command line editing:
50377 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5038 line.
50398 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5040 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5041 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5042- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5043 lines wraps to start of line).
5044- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5045 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5046 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5047 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5048 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5049 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5050 cmdwin does now already.
5051 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5052 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5053 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5054 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5055 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5056 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5057 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5058 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5059 Problems:
5060 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5061 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5062 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5063 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5064 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5065 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5066 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5067 character in first column?
5068 - Implementation ideas:
5069 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5070 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5071 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5072 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5073 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5074 Mode.
5075
5076
5077Command line completion:
50788 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50798 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5080 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50818 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5082 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050838 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5084 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050857 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5086 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005087- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5088- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5089 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050908 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5091 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50927 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5093 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5094- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5095 identifiers (Webb).
50968 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5097 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50987 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5099 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5100- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5101 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5102- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5103 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5104 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105
5106
5107Command line history:
5108- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5109 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5110 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005111 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005112- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5113 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5114
5115
5116Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051179 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5118 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5119 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051208 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5121 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5122 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5123 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5124 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051258 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5126 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5127 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051287 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5129 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005130- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051317 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5132 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5133- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5134 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5135 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5136 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5137 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5138 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5139- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5140 Normal mode.
5141- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5142 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5143 are used.
5144- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5145- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5146- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5147
5148
5149'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051509 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5151 char * veryLongName =
5152 "very long string"
5153 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051548 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051558 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5156 long_type foo =
5157 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051588 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5159 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005160 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051618 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5162 func(
5163 new String[] {
5164 "asdf",
5165 "asdf"
5166 }
5167 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051688 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5169 (Chow Loong Jin)
5170 namespace {
5171 int
5172 func(int arg) {
5173 }
5174 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051756 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5176 func( arg1
5177 , arg2
5178 , arg3
5179 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051807 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005181 func(
5182 int x) // indent like "(4"
5183 {
5184 if (a
5185 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051869 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5187 if (a)
5188 {
5189 if (b)
5190 {
5191 // {
5192 }
5193 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005194 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5195 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5196 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005197- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005198 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51997 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5200- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5201 line).
5202- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5203- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5204 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005205- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5206 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5207- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5208 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5209- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5210- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5211 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52128 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5213 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5214 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5215- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5216- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5217 lines start with "\item".
5218- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5219 /* here is a comment that
5220 is just autoindented, and
5221 nothing else */
5222- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52237 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5224 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5225 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005226 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005227
5228
5229Java:
52308 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5231 Odendahl?
52328 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5233 "[i" commands and friends.
5234- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5235 (Jason)
5236- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5237 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5238
5239
5240'comments':
52418 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5242 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5243 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5244 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005245 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5246 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052477 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5248 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52497 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52506 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5251 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5252 regexp is used.
52538 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5254 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5255
5256
5257Virtual edit:
52588 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052597 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5260
5261
5262Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052638 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052648 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052658 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005266 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052678 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5268 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005269 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5270 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052718 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052728 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5273 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052748 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5275 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5276 the end of the line or before a ".".
52777 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5278 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52797 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5280 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052816 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52825 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5283 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5284 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5285 cursor is on.
5286
5287
5288Select mode:
52898 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5290 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52917 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005292 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052937 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5294 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5295 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5296 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5297 normal_cmd().
5298 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5299 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5300
5301
5302Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053038 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5304 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005305- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5306 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5307 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005308- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5309 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5310 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053118 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005312 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005313 where needed.
53147 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5315 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53167 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5317 of each selected line.
53188 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53198 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5320 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5321 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53228 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5323 Ben Godfrey)
53247 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5325 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53267 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5327 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053287 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005329 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005330 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53318 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5332 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53337 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5334 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5335 option!
53367 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5337 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5338 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5339 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5340 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5341 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5342 without changing the column.
53436 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053447 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5345 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053466 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5347 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53486 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053496 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005350 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351 or other special character.
53526 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5353
5354
5355More advanced repeating commands:
5356- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005357- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005358- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005359 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5360 "y." will repeat last yank.
5361 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5362 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5363 and/or pick an older command.
5364- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5365
5366
5367Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053688 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5369 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5370 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53718 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53727 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5373 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053748 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5375 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53768 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053777 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053788 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5379 entering search strings.
53808 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5381 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5382 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053838 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5384 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053857 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053867 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5387 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053886 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5389 abbreviations are to be used.
5390- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5391 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5392 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005393- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5394 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5395 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5396 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5397 Or implicit:
5398 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005399- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5400 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5401 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005402- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5403 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5404- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5405 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54066 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5407 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5408 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5409 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005410- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5411 non-replace Insert mode?
5412- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005413- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5414- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5415 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5416- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005417 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005418- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5419 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5420- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5421- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5422 ":freekeys".
5423- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5424
5425
5426Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005427- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5428 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5429- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5430 folds when going to another line.
5431 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5432- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5433 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5435 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5436 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005437- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5438 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5439 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5440 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054419 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5442 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005443
5444
5445Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054469 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054478 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005448 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005449 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005450 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005451 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054529 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5453 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054548 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5455 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054568 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5457 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5458 Perl does it this way:
5459 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5460 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5461 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5462 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054638 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5464 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5465 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054667 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5467 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054688 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5469 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054707 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005471 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5472 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5473 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054747 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005475 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054767 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5477 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054788 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5479 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54808 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5481 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054827 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005483 example.
54848 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5485 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5486- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5487 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5488 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5489 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054908 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5491 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5492 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54937 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5494 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054957 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5496 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054978 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5498 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054998 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5500 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055018 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5502 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5503 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5504 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005505- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5506 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5508 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5509- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5510 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5511 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5512 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055138 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5514 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5516 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055178 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5518 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5519 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5521 i ignore case
5522 I use case
5523 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5524 v use Vi regexp syntax
5525 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5526 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5527 Perl uses these too:
5528 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5529 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5530 o compile only once (Perl only)
5531 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5532 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5533 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5534 following command.
5535 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5536- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5537 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5538 for search string)?
55397 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5540 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5541- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5542 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5543- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5544 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5545- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5546- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005547 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005548 a for the next file in the argument list
5549 f for file in the buffer list
5550 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005551 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5552 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005553 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5554 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5555- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055567 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005557 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055587 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5559 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5560 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5561 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55626 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5563 effects.
55647 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5565 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5566 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055677 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005568 Also ":dselect".
5569
5570
5571Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055729 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5573 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5574 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055759 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5576 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055778 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5578 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055798 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5580 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5581 timestamp?
5582 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5583 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005584- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5585 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5587 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5588 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55898 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5590 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5591 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5592 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55938 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5594 only remember the lines that really changed.
55957 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5596 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5597 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5598 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005599- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5600 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5601- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5602 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5603- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5604 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5605 [-99].
5606- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5607- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005608- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5609 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5610
5611
5612Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056137 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5614 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5615 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5616 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56178 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5618 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56198 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5620 inode too.
56217 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005622 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5623 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056247 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5625 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5626- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5627 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5628- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5629 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56307 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5631 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56327 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5633 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56348 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056357 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5636 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056378 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5638 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5639 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005640
5641
5642Swap (.swp) files:
56438 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5644 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5645 there are short file name problems.
56468 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5647 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56488 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56498 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005650 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005651 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5652 file the same as the actual file?
5653 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056547 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5655 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56567 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005657 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005658 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5659 enough room.
56607 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5661 or /var/preserve.
5662- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5663 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5664- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005665 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005666- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5667 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5668 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5669 cached list of which line is where.
5670
5671
5672Viminfo:
56737 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5674 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5675 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056768 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5677 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5678 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056798 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5680 name. (Schild)
56818 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56828 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056838 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056848 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5685 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5686 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5687 this?
56887 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56897 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5690 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56916 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5692 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5693 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5694- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5695 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5696
5697
5698Modelines:
56998 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5700 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5701 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005702- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5703 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5704 'shiftwidth'.
5705- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5706 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5708 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5709 modeline setting.
5710- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5711 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5712- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5713 .cpp files.
5714- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5715 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5716- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5717 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5718
5719
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005720Sessions:
57218 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5722 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57237 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5724 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057258 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5726 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057278 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5728 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5729 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057307 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5731 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057327 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005733
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005734
5735Options:
57367 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5737 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057388 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5739 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5740 also be supported.
57418 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5742 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5743 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57447 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005745
5746
5747External commands:
57488 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5749 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57504 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5751 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5752 -f).
57534 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57544 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5755 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57564 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5757
5758
5759Multiple Windows:
57607 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57618 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5762 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57637 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5764 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5765 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057667 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5767 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057687 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5769 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057706 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5771 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005772 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005773 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57747 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5775 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5776 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5777 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5778- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5779 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5780 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5781 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5782
5783
5784Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057858 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057868 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5787 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057888 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 +000057898 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5790 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57918 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5792 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5793 the mark was set.
57947 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5795 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5796 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5797 ":browse marks"?
57986 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057997 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5800 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58017 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5802 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58037 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5804 command).
58057 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5806 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5807 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5808 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58095 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5810 mappings.
58116 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5812 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5813 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5814
5815
5816Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058177 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005818 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5820 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058218 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058227 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5823 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5824
5825
5826Writing files:
5827- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5828 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5829 shortname conversion.
58308 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58318 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5832 file.
58338 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5834 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5835 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058366 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5837 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58386 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5839 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58406 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5841 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058428 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005843 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58447 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5845 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58467 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5847 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5848 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5849 waiting for a character to be typed).
58508 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5851 line of the window, like "[time]".
5852 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5853 Automatic and/or with a command.
5854
5855
5856Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058578 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5858 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058598 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005860 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5861- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5862- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58638 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5864 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005865- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005866 :s///N substitutes N times.
5867- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5868 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5869 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58707 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5871 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5872 last line column 5.
58735 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5874 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5875 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5876 (Stanislav Sitar)
5877
5878
5879Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058808 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58817 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58828 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5883 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5884 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005885- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5886- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5887 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5888- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5889- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5890
5891
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005892Argument list:
58936 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5894 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5895 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58966 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5897
5898
5899Registers:
59008 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059018 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5902 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5903 for every line.
59046 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5905 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5906 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5907- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5908 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5909- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5910 leader when line wraps?
5911- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5912 line in the range.
5913- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5914 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59158 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5916 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005917
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005918
5919Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059208 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059218 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059227 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59237 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5924
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005925Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059267 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5927 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5928 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5929 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5930 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5931 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5932 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005933 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059347 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5935 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059367 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5937 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059388 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5939 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059407 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5941 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5942 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005943- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005944 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059457 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5946 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59478 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059487 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5949 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59508 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5951 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059526 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059538 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5954 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5955 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5956 in this Vim.
59578 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005958 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059598 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5960 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5961 have it apply to the following command.
59628 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5963 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5964 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5965 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059667 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5967 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059687 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5969 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5970 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5971 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059726 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59738 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59749 Support ACLs on more systems.
59757 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5976 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059777 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5978 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5979 (truncated to fit in the space).
59807 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59818 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59828 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5983 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059847 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005985 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59867 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5987 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059887 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059897 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59907 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059918 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59928 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5993 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5994 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5995 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59968 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059978 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059988 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5999 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6000 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6001 does something like this. (Shah)
60027 Use growarray for replace stack.
60037 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6004 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60053 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060067 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6007 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060087 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6009 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006010- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6011- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6012- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6013- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60147 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6015 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6016- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6017 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006018- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006019- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6020 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6021- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6022 call "play newbeep.au").
6023- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6024 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6025 (Bhatt).
6026- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6027 blockwise registers).
6028- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6029 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6030- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6031 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6032 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6033 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006034- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060357 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6036 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6037- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6038 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6039 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6040 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6041 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060428 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6043 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060448 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6045 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6046 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6047 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6048 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6049- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006050- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060517 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6052 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6053- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6054 not in column 1.
60556 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6056 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60577 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6058- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006059- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006060 :redir #> bufname
6061 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006062- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6063 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006064- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6065 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6066 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60676 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6068 console? (Klaus Hast)
6069- Add :delcr command:
6070 *:delcr*
6071 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6072 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6073 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6074 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6075 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006076 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6078- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6079 characters from 'isprint'.
6080- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6081- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6082 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6083- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6084 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6085 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6086- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6087- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6088 Nvi).
6089- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6090 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60917 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6092- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6093 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60946 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6095- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6096 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6097 macro).
6098- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006099- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6100 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6101- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61028 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006103- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6104- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6105- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6106 if it is not the first or last window.
6107- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6108 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61097 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6110 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6111 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6112- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6113- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006114 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115 many percent down the windows).
6116- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6117 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6118 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006119 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6121 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6122- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6123 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6124- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6125- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6126- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6127 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061288 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6129 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6130 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6131 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6132 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006133- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6134 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6135- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006136 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6137- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006138 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6139 (Webb).
6140- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006141 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006142- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6143 hex codes like 0xff).
6144- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6145 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6146 the last TYPED command.
6147- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6148- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6149- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6150 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006151- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061528 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6153 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6154 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006155- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006156 trailing '.'.
6157- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6158 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6159 find_file_in_path().
6160- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6161 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6162- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6163- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6164 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6165- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006166 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006167- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6168 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6169 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006170- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6171- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6172- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6173 to the minimal size.
6174- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6175- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6176- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6177- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6178- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006179- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6180 entered)?
6181- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6182 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006183- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006184- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6185- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6186- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6187- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6188- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6189 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006190- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061918 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6192 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6193 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6194 or in octal.
61957 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6196 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006197- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6199- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6200- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6201 insert line command).
6202- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6203- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6204- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6205- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6206- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6207 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006208- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209 yet.
6210- Implement 'redraw' option.
6211- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6212 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062137 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6214 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006215 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6216 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062178 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6218 do it.
6219- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6220- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6221 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6222- Add text justification option.
6223- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6224- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6225 off".
6226- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6227- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6228- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006229 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006231- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006232- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6233 commands.
6234- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6235- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6236- :table command (Webb)
6237- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6239- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6240- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6241- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6242- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6243 (Demirel).
6244- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6245- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6246 for use in macro's and the like.
6247- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006248 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006249- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006251- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006252 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006253 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6254- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6255 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006256- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006257 mkopttab to make option table?
6258- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6259 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6260- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6261 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006262- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006263 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6264- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6265 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062678 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6268 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6269 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6270 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6271 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062728 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6273 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6274 (Netherton)
62756 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6276 space after "(", for example.
62775 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6278 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6279 (Servatius Brandt)
6280
6281
6282From Elvis:
6283- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6284- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006285- Search patterns:
6286 \@ match word under cursor.
6287 but do:
6288 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6289 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62908 ":window" command:
6291 :win + next window (up)
6292 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6293 :win - previous window (down)
6294 :win -- idem, wrapping
6295 :win nr to window number "nr"
6296 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62977 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6298 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6299
6300
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301From xvi:
6302- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6303- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6304
6305
6306From vile:
6307- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6308- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6309 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6310
6311
6312Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006313- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6314 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006315 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006316 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6317 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006318- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6319 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6320- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6321 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6322 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6323 current layout mirrored.
6324- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6325- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6326 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6327- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6328- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6329 font in each top-level window.
6330- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6331- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6332- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6333- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6334 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006335- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6336 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6337- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6338 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63394 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6340 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6341 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6342 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006343 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006344 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6345 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6346- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6347 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6348 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6349
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006350vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006351vim: set fo+=n :