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Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Nov 10
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|.
29
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 Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +010041Don't use javascriptreact but javascript.jsx? #4830
42Although there is a good argument against using ".jsx".
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010043
44Update libvterm on github, rename termscreen.c back to screen.c.
45
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010046
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020047Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020048- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020049- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020050- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020051 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
52- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
53 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020054- Figure out the size and position better.
55 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
56 if wrapping inserts indent
57- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
58 incomplete cell.
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020059
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020060Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010061- Implement prop_find() issue #4970
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020062- Adjusting column/length when inserting text
63- Text properties spanning more than one line
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010064- See remakrs at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020065
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010066'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010067- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010068 was set. (issue #3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020069- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
70 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010071- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
72 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020073- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020074- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020075- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
76 isn't one?
77 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
78
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020079Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010080- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020081- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010082- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020083
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020084Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020085- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010086- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
87 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020088- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010089- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020090- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
91 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
92 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010093- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010094- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
95 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010096 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010097 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020098
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020099Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100100- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
101 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
102 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100103- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
104 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200105- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
106 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200107- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200108- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200109- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
110 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200111- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
112 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
113- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
114 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200115- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
116 is disabled.
117- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
118- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
119 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200120- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
121 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
122 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
123- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
124- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
125 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
126- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
127 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200128
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200129Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100130E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200131E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
132E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200133
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200134Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
135manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
136Athena is OK.
137Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
138
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200139Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200140Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200141
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200142Remove check for cmd_silent when calling search_stat()? (Gary Johnson)
143
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200144undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
145
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200146Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
147
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200148Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200149
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100150Patch to user manual: #5098. Comments by DC Slagel:
151- semicolon use should be OK.
152- Keep capital after colon.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200153
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200154Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
15520)
156Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
157remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200158Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200159
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200160Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
161Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
162terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
163Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
164(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200165
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100166Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
167(#4087)
168
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200169":helptags ALL" should skip directories where "tags" cannot be written.
170(Matěj Cepl, #5026)
171
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200172":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
173goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
174unlisted. (#4478)
175
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100176When 'selection' is "exclusive" then using vi' on the second ' does not select
177anything. (#5183)
178Patch from Christian:
179https://github.com/chrisbra/vim/commit/7482d1d389e7db97e247f8b509003e5ec27427a9
180When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
181Cursor should not move. (#4024)
182
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200183Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
184
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200185Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
186Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
187
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200188The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
189support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
190
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100191Patch: New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200192
193Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
194It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
195Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
196Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
197
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200198Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
199(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
200
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200201When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
202default one. #4698
203
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200204Patch to remove FORTIFY_SOURCE also from CPPFLAGS. (Benedikt Morbach, #2786)
205
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200206Patch from Namsh to allow building with both XIM and hangulin. (2019 Aug 29)
207
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200208When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
209with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
210
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200211Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200212Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200213
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200214Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
215Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
216New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
217
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200218Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
219fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
220
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200221Patch to add interrupt(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #2834)
222
223Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
224-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
225
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200226Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
227- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
228- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200229
230Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
23113, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200232
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200233Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
234
235Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
236
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200237xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
238buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
239Xterm 224 supports it!
240Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
241Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
242Also see issue #609.
243We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
244
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200245Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200246
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100247Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
2482007 Feb 18)
249Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
250
251Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
252Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
253
254Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
255Have another look at the implementation: Is the code worth it?
256
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200257Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
258
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200259Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
260Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200261
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100262Errors found with random data:
263 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100264
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200265Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
266change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
267patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
268(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
269
270Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
271Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
272
273Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
274
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200275Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
276files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
277Include part of #3242?
278
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200279When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
280it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
281
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200282Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
283Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
284Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
285
286Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
287(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
288Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
289- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
290 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
291 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
292- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
293 covered by the above change.
294So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
295same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
296Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200297
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200298Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
299t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
300
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100301Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
302Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
303
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200304'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
305
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200306"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
307(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
308
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200309Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
310
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100311Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
312
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200313Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
314
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100315When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
316in a long line. #5189
317
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200318The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
319Give a few examples. (#4288)
320
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200321Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
322work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
323
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200324Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
3257 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
326 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
327 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
328
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100329Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
330read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
331be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
332
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100333Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
334CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
335with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
336fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
337displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
338
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200339Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
340(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
341
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200342Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
343
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200344Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
345
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200346Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
347https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
348
349Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
350http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
351http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
352Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
353- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
354- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
355- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
356 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
357- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
358- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
359Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
360- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
361- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
362Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
363- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
364
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100365Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
366Mar 5)
367
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200368Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
369- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
370 line.
371- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
372 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
373- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
374 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
375
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200376Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
377on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
378
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200379Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
380in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
381buffer didn't change at all.
382
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200383Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
384register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
385(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
386
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200387Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
388(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
389
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200390Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
391":let buf = bufcreate('name')
392
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200393Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
394'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
395(#4450)
396
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100397When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
398But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
399similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
400
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200401C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
402(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
403
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100404Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
405"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
406
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100407Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
408added?
409
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200410Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
411maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
412
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200413Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
414negative. (see #4326)
415
416'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
417`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
418tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
419:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
420
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200421This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
422 vim: syn=nosyntax
423
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200424":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
425a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
426
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100427Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
428#2948. (related to #1512?)
429On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
430balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
43120, #2481)
432Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
433Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
434balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
4352018 Sep 14)
436Another request: #3811.
437
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200438More warnings from static analysis:
439https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200440
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100441Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
442
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200443Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
444
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200445Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
446internals of the dict structure.
447
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100448nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
449
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200450Missing tests for:
451- add_termcap_entry()
452
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200453Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
454change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
455them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
456
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100457Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
458Also run all tests with C locale?
459
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100460"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
461#3927
462
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200463Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200464Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200465
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100466When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
467case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
468For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
469
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200470Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
471(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
472expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200473
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200474Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
475 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
476 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
477
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100478Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100479punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100480
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200481ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
482
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200483Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
484":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
485#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
486Updated 2019 May 25.
487
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200488Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
489drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
490
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200491Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
492is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
493
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100494When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
495scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
496using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
497
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200498Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
499#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
500(Sep 8)
501
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200502Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
503unified diff (list of lines).
504
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100505When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
506kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
507when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
508
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100509Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
510(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100511
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100512Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
513
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200514Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200515Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200516memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200517Memory leak in test_terminal:
518==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
519==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
520==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
521==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
522==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
523==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
524==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
525==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
526==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200527TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100528Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200529Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
530Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200531
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200532gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200533
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200534matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
53519.
536
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100537Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
538Probably window.
539Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
540highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200541And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
542'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100543
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100544Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
545Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
546
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200547Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
548Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
549Not ready to include.
550
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200551Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
552Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
553Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
554
555Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
556
557Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
558screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
559
560Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
561 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
562 Not ready to include.
563
564Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
565Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
566
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200567home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
568
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200569When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
570terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
571How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
572
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200573Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
574
575Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
576(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
577
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100578Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
579Feedback from someone who uses this?
580
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200581ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
582
583Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
584Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
585values.
586
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100587Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200588- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
589- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
590- omit diff.exe from distribution
591- Can we make this show differences within a line?
592- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200593
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200594Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
595
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100596Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
597What is the practical use for this?
598
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200599When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
600includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
601
602Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200603Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200604
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200605MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
606(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
607
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100608Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
609
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200610Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
611
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200612Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
613window for the buffer.
614
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200615Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
616when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
617
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100618Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
619mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
620
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200621Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
622
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200623Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
624modified buffers
625 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
626 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
627 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
628 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
629
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100630Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
631- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
632- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
633- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100634- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
635
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200636Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
637characters. (#3246)
638
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200639'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
640
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100641Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
642Oct 28)
643
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200644ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
645Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
646Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
647Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
648
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100649Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
650- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
651
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200652Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
653- Test_setbufvar_options()
654- Test_exit_callback_interval()
655
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200656Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
657Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100658Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
659Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200660
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200661Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
662
663Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
66424)
665
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100666Try out background make plugin:
667 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
668or asyncmake:
669 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
670
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100671Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100672mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100673
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200674Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
675is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
676used for git temp files.
677
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100678Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
679
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200680Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
681#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
682
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200683Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
684behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
685(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
686
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200687Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
688pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
689
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200690Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
691script or function.
692
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200693When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
694E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
695does nothing otherwise?
696
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200697MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
698If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
699(wait a little while).
700CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100701
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200702Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
703MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7042017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
705receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
706
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200707Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
708missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
709
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200710":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
711deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
712
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200713Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200714
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100715Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200716Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
717
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200718With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
719included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
720(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
721
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200722Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200723Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200724
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100725Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100726Jan 15, #2555)
727
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200728":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
729
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100730Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
731
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100732No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
733No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
734
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200735Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
736http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
737Should be supported with a flag.
738
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100739Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
740confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
741
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100742Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
743
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100744Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
745Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
746applying the diff, etc.
747
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200748Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
749Apr 26, #2849)
750
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100751User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
752word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100753
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100754Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200755
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200756With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
757(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
758
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200759Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
760:drop (remote commands).
761
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200762Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
7632018 Jun 18, #3027)
764
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200765Implement option_save() and option_restore():
766option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
767 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
768 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
769 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
770 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
771 be called when the same window is the current window.
772 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
773 the local options won't be restored.
774
775option_save({list}) *option_save()*
776 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
777 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
778 let s:saved_options = option_save([
779 \ 'ignorecase',
780 \ 'iskeyword',
781 \ ])
782 au <buffer> BufLeave *
783 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
784< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
785 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
786 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
787 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100788 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
789 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
790 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100791 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200792
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100793"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
794directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
795Also see #1689.
796
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100797crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
79817, #2652)
799
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100800When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100801highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100802
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200803":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
804
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100805No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8062017 Dec 26, #2501)
807
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200808A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
809
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200810Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
811
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200812A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
813Mention where they were defined somewhere.
814
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100815Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
816(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
817
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200818ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
819
820Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
821
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100822Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
823Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
824
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100825Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
826in #846)
827Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
828
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200829Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
830Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
831
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100832When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
833redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200834
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100835In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
836(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
837
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100838Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
839neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100840
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100841Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
842Nov 21)
843
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200844When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
845triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
846set_color_count().
847
848Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
849responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
850
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100851When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
852CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
853Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
854always nested.
855
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200856matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
857
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100858Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
859
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100860MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100861for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
862
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200863Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100864(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200865
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200866Test runtime files.
867Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200868
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200869Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200870
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200871Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
872defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
873Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
874
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200875After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
87613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200877
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200878When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
879line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
880
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100881The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
882
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200883Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
884set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
885
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100886Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
887
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200888Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
889behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
890
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100891'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
892
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200893The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
894
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100895When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
896a command can delete it.
897
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200898Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
899#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
900
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100901The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
902for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
903
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200904X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
905pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
906clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
907Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
908Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
909clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200910Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200911
912Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
913
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200914Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
915attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
916that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
917
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200918Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
919(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
920
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100921Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
922buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
923Also fixes #2166?
924
925Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
926
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200927Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
928stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
929
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100930Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
931possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
932
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200933When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
934case of :bwipe followed by :new.
935
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200936Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
937existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
938Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
939
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200940Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200941
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200942MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
943Jul 4)
944
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200945Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
946Drucker, 2017 May 8).
947This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
948Christian cannot reproduce it.
949
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200950Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
951wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
952Or is this not an actual problem?
953
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200954Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
955
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200956Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
957
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200958Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
959
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200960'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
961#1736)
962
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200963Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9648, #1690)
965
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200966Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
967(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
968
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200969Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
970it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
971
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200972Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
973Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
974How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
975
976Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
977(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
978
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100979Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
980
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200981assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
982it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
983
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100984Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
985for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200986
987Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
988(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
989Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
990later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
991Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
992mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200993Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
994mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200995maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200996
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100997Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200998plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
999be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1000
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001001Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1002 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1003 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001004
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001005json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001006What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001007
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001008Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1009
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001010import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1011(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1012
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001013When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1014buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1015Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001016
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001017Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1018Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001019Another example in #1309
1020
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001021When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1022when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1023
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001024Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1025#1330)
1026
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001027Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1028
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001029Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1030
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001031GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1032g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1033timer expires.
1034
1035Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1036
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001037Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1038highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1039
10408 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1041 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1042
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001043Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1044Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1045
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001046Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1047key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1048 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1049 echo keytrans(xx)
1050 <C-Home>
1051
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001052Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1053(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1054Make a function to check for function-like type?
1055
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001056Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1057(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1058
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001059Implement optional arguments for functions.
1060 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1061 call Foo(12)
1062 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1063 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001064
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001065Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1066somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1067
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001068Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1069(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1070
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001071Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001072Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001073Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001074
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001075The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1076"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1077Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1078
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001079Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1080
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001081Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1082about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001083Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1084
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001085Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1086#1053) With patch, does it work?
1087
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001088":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001089vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1090
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001091Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001092E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001093Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001094
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001095Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1096Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1097
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001098Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001099Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001100
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001101"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1102(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1103
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001104Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1105(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001106Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001107
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001108'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1109
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001110Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1111
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001112When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1113Apr 23, #1653)
1114
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001115Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1116anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1117
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001118Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001119E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001120
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001121Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1122(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1123
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001124Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1125
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001126On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1127separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1128
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001129min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1130contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1131
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001132Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1133
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001134Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1135
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001136Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1137
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001138Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1139no longer support.
1140
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001141sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11424#1038)
1143
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001144+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001145- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001146- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1147 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1148 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001149- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1150 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001151- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1152- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1153 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1154- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1155 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1156- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001157- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1158 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001159- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1160- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1161 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1162 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1163- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1164- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1165- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1166 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1167 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1168- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1169 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1170- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1171 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1172 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1173
1174Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001175- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1176 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1177 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1178 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001179- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1180 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001181- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1182 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1183- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1184 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1185- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1186 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1187 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1188 LC_CTYPE
1189- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1190 matches everywhere.
1191- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1192 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1193- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1194- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1195 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1196- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1197- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1198 2013 Dec 11)
1199- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1200 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1201- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1202- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1203 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1204- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1205- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1206- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1207- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1208 2015 Feb 7)
1209- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1210 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1211 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1212 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1213 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1214- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1215- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1216- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1217- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1218 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1219 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1220 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1221- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1222 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1223- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1224 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1225 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1226 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1227
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001228Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1229#1350)
1230
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001231Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
12323. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1233Also see #1635.
1234
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001235Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001236Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1237use the current behavior.
1238Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001239
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001240When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1241command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1242
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001243Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1244doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1245Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001246Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001247E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1248
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001249execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001250#1141)
1251
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001252cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1253
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001254:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1255
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001256Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1257
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001258When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1259synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1260
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001261Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1262Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001263
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001264Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1265(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1266
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001267ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1268Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001269
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001270Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1271
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001272Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001273(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001274
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001275Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1276Jul 25, #948)
1277
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001278Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1279names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1280Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1281the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1282
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001283Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1284(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1285Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1286
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001287'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1288
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001289MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1290Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001291
1292Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1293Also for ":@.".
1294
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001295Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1296
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001297Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1298#1125
1299
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001300Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1301times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1302
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001303Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1304
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001305Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1306
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001307Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1308
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001309Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1310
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001311We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1312the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1313
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001314Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1315
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001316When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1317emoji_width table has only one entry.
1318
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001319It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1320Reject the value? #710.
1321
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001322When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1323Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1324
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001325Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001326
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001327Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1328No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001329
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001330Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1331(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001332
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001333Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1334
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001335Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1336https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1337Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1338
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001339Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1340but the reference remains valid.
1341
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001342Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001343interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1344Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1345interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1346result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001347
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001348Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001349work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001350
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001351Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1352
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001353Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1354
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001355Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1356Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1357
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001358When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1359Apr 17) #762
1360
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001361exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1362Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1363
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001364Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1365'iskeyword' for syntax.
1366
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001367Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1368(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1369
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001370Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1371
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001372When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1373maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001374Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001375
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001376Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1377It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1378Add configure check?
1379Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1380Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1381Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1382
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001383Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1384Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1385
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001386Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1387Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1388
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001389":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1390directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1391
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001392In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1393(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1394
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001395If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13962016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001397
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001398Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1399(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1400
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001401Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1402
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001403When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1404restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1405Do not trigger the event?
1406
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001407Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1408changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1409and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001410Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1411Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14126, 2nd message)
1413Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001414
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001415Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1416Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1417https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1418
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001419Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1420With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1421
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001422Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001423
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001424Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1425
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001426Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001427Only remembers one error.
1428
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001429GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001430
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001431Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1432(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001433
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001434Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1435github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001436 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001437Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001438
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001439Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001440
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001441Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001442comparing individual items.
1443Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1444Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1445Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1446equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1447
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001448Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1449
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001450MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1451wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1452
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001453Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1454specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1455
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001456Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1457(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1458
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001459Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001460inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001461
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001462Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1463(Luchr, #277)
1464
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001465Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001466'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1467before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001468
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001469C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1470and also line continuation after #include.
1471I can't recommend it though.
1472
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001473Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1474(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1475
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001476To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1477library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1478
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001479When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1480is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1481
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001482Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
148330)
1484
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001485MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1486(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1487
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001488The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
148924): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001490
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001491":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1492effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1493
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001494":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14959)
1496
1497The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1498wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1499
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001500Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001501Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001502
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001503When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1504the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1505
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001506Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001507slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1508inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1509
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001510ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15112014 Sep 11)
1512
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001513Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1514(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1515
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001516When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1517'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1518
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001519Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1520Work in progress.
1521
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001522Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1523when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1524
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001525Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1526Is this right?
1527
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001528Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1529(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1530Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1531
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001532Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1533Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001534
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001535Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1536Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1537
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001538Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1539
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001540When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1541filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1542initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1543
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001544Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1545
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001546Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1547OK to not block marks?
1548
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001549Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1550
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001551Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1552
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001553When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1554(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1555
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001556Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001557
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001558Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1559(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1560
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001561When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1562any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1563
1564Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001565
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001566Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001567
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001568Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1569(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1570
1571Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1572
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001573Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1574Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1575was already defined.
1576(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1577
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001578Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1579
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001580Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001581Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001582Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001583Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001584
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001585Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1586(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1587
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001588Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1589(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1590
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001591Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1592
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001593When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1594these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1595window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1596
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001597Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1598should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1599history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1600Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1601
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001602"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1603Jun 8)
1604
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001605Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1606insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1607
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001608No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1609
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001610Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1611(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1612Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1613arguments.
1614
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001615Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1616
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001617Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001618
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001619Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
16200x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1621New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1622compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1623
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001624Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1625a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1626
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001627Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1628right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001629its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001630
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001631Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1632
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001633This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1634 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1635This neither: (ZyX)
1636 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1637
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001638'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1639Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1640from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001641
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001642Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16432014 Jun 8)
1644
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001645Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001646Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001647Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1648Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1649User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001650- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1651 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1652 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001653- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1654- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1655 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1656 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1657 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1658 on vim.org.
1659- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1660 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1661- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1662- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1663- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1664- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1665Implementation:
1666- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1667 plugin separate.
1668- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1669 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1670 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1671- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1672 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1673- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1674 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1675 installing.
1676Out of scope:
1677- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1678- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1679 useful).
1680
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001681Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1682normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001683
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001684When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1685menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1686
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001687Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1688(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1689
1690":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1691various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001692
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001693Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001694(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1695
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001696VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1697instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1698
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001699Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001700Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001701
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001702Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001703command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001704
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001705Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1706
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001707Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1708highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001709
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001710The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1711For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1712
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001713Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001714possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001715
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001716Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001717
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001718Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1719
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017207 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1721 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1722 "lucida_console:h8").
1723Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1724
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001725:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1726
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001727Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1728
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001729Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1730
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001731When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1732(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1733
1734Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001735Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001736
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001737GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1738(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1739
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001740Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1741registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1742
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001743Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1744
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001745The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1746(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1747Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1748
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001749The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1750- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1751- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1752
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001753Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1754Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1755reliably?
1756
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001757Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1758(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1759
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001760Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1761(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1762
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001763Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17642013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001765
1766Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1767
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001768Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17695)
1770
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001771Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1772carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1773
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001774Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1775highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1776
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001777Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001778
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001779Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200178028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001781
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001782Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1783
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001784Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1785
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001786- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1787 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1788Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001789
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001790Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001791
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001792In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1793process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1794a reboot.
1795
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001796patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1797
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001798Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1799not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001800
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001801Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1802Or use expand('<sid>')?
1803
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001804Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1805
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001806Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1807
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001808b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18097)
1810
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001811Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1812compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1813
1814Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1815Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1816vim.bindeval().
1817
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001818Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18192012 Aug 4)
1820
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001821Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1822(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1823
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001824Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1825But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1826
1827Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1828Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1829Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001830
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001831Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1832loading all files.
1833
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001834MS-Windows resizing problems:
1835- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1836 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1837- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1838 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1839 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001840
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001841'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001842
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001843Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001844of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1845
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001846The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1847Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1848But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001849
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001850When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1851is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1852
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001853URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001854- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001855- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1856 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1857
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001858Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1859(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1860Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1861
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001862Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001863New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001864
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001865When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1866for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1867Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001868
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001869Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1870
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001871Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1872
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001873Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1874Apr 18)
1875
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001876Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1877And one for gui_x11.txt.
1878
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001879":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1880finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1881Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1882
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001883Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1884
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001885Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1886
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001887Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1888they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1889
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001890Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1891
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001892Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1893Nov 20)
1894
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001895Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001896Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001897
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001898`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001899(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1900
1901Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1902
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001903BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1904Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1905
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001906Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1907Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1908
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001909Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1910
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001911On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19122012 Jun 19)
1913
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001914'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1915'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1916Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001917Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001918
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001919With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1920(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1921need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1922
1923Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1924only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
192521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1926
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001927Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1928New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1929
1930Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1931Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1932
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001933Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1934Jan 19)
1935
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001936Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1937discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1938meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001939
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001940"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001941Oct 26)
1942
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001943Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1944
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001945With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1946register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001947
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001948Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1949
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001950When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1951(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1952
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001953When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1954then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1955from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1956
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001957Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1958":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
195915)
1960
1961Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1962
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001963BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1964cleared. See test64.
1965
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001966Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001967effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001968Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001969https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001970
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001971On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
197264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1973right type.
1974
1975string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1976(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1977
1978When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1979(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001980When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1981following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1982(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001983
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001984When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1985doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1986
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001987Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1988
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001989maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1990mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1991
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001992Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1993(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1994
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001995When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1996indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1997the help file.
1998
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001999After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2000Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2001
2002Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2003
2004"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2005
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002006Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2007
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002008Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002009
2010Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20112010 Dec 18)
2012
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002013With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2014number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2015Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2016
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002017Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2018Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2019
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020208 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2021Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2022
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002023Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2024one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2025the match scrolls into view.
2026
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020277 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2028Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2029Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2030
20319 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2032 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2033Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2034
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002035Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2036Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2037
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002038In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2039or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2040sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2041
2042GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2043doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2044
2045GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2046
2047Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2048Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2049
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002050Wish for NetBeans commands:
2051 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2052
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002053Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2054
20557.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2056there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2057do?
2058
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002059Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
206022)
2061
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002062New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2063- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002064- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002065 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2066
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002067"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20682011 Feb 27)
2069
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002070Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2071^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2072
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002073When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2074exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20759) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2076
2077g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2078the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2079
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002080Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2081crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2082
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002083Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2084number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2085
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002086Regexp engine performance:
2087- Profiling:
2088 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2089 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2090 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2091 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2092 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2093 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2094- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2095- Performance tests:
2096 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2097 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2098 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2099 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2100 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2101 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2102 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2103 'hlsearch'.
2104 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2105 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2106 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2107 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2108
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002109Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2110Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2111
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002112'beval' option should be global-local.
2113
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002114Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002115
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002116setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002117
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002118With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21192010 Oct 24)
2120
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002121Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2122
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002123When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2124Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2125
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002126":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2127
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002128'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2129
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002130C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2131checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2132Issue 46.
2133
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002134Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2135
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002136Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2137gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2138
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002139":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2140accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2141
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002142Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2143setwinvar().
2144
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002145Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002146
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002147When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2148instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2149
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002150Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2151Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2152Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002153
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002154Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2155back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2156
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002157Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002158Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2159
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002160CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2161the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2162FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2163
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002164Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2165Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2166
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002167Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2168Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2169
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002170Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2171
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002172Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2173non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002174
2175iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2176Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2177or replace with a character and continue?
2178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002179Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2180Requires configure check for localtime().
2181Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2182
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002183Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2184Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2185
2186Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2187
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2189Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2190path.
2191
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002192Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002193Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002194
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002195'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2196
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002197":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2198like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2199
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002200Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2201https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002202
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002203Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22042010 Nov 5)
2205
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002206Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002207Jan 7)
2208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002209Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2210
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002211With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2212entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2213Feb 12)
2214
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002215Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2216characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002218Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2219
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002220Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2221 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2222
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002223Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2224
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002225When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2226Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2227
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002228When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2229not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2230string value.
2231
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002232For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002233line argument -noregister.
2234
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002235When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2236missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2237
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002238When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2239doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002240
2241Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2242(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2243Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2244There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2245Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2246
2247":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2248highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2249to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2250
2251Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2252Probably needs a bit of work.
2253
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002254List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002255Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2256
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002257Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002259Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2260
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002261Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2262Sep 1)
2263
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002264Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2265
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002266Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2267on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002269Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22702009 Jul 18)
2271
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2273window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2274Needs more work.
2275
2276Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002278When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2279few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2280
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002281'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2283
2284Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2285J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2286
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002287When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2288for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2289
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002290Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2291
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002292":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2293because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2294ex_docmd.c.
2295
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002296Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002297Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2298
2299string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2300for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2301
2302Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2303
2304'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
230520)
2306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002307Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23082009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2309
2310Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2311
2312Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2313SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2314
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002315When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2316indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2317(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2318
2319Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2320are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2321Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2322Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2323that doesn't have a window.
2324
2325When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2326doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2327
2328getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2329displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2330
2331":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2332
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002333There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2334was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2335perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2336
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002337Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2338
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002339Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2340command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002342Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2343does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2344
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002345opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2346height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002347very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002349Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2350(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2351
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002352Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002353(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002355Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2356char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2357
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002358Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2359Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2360
2361This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2362
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002363Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2364messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2365es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23662009 Jan 26)
2367
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002368When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002369in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2370Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2373a modeline.
2374
2375Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2376Sergey Khorev)
2377
2378Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2379part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002381After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2382correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2383
2384Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2385(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2386
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002387shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002388'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2389Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2390unix-like shell?
2391
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002392Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2393register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2394(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2397Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2398
2399Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2400make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002402When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2403still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2404
2405"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2406(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2409that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2410ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2411Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002413MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2414doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2415probably causes this.
2416
2417'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024182009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419
2420Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2421 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2422 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2423(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2424
2425Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2426":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2427option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2428is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002429
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002430":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2431first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002432Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2435laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2436Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002438Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2439anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2440
2441On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2442doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2443Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2444Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2445
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002446When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2447'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2448fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2449the buffer to be unmodified.
2450Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2451another look at it.
2452
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002453c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2454(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002456You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2457error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2458Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2459at the other match for 0xBF.
2460
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002461When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2462argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2463
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002464Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2465backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2466
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002467When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2468line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2469
2470Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2471position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2472
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002473After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2474(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002475command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002476
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002477":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2478Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2481either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2482put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2485Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2486Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2487Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2488(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2489
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002490Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2491
2492ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002493
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002494Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2495(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2496escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2497an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002498This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2499July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002500Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2501work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2502
2503When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
250431)
2505
2506Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2507work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2508Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002509
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002510Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2511multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2512(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2513
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002514Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25152008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002516Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002517
2518Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2519Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2520'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2521
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002522Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2523Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2524
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002525Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2526Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2527
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025288 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2529 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2530 several).
2531 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2532 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2533 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2534Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2535
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002536The utf class table is missing some entries:
2537 0x2212, minus sign
2538 0x2217, star
2539 0x2500, bar
2540 0x26ab, circle
2541
2542Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2543line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2544
2545GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2546Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002548Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2549try the Cocoa version.
2550
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2552changed or the window is resized.
2553
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002554GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2555the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2556
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002557Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2558Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002559
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002560Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25611) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002563C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2564with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2565Try to reproduce at work.
2566
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002567Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2568Is there a way to list all the files first?
2569
2570When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2571result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
257216)
2573
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002574Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2575(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2576
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002577Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2578Await response to question to make the register writable.
2579
2580Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25811)
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2584each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2585
2586try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2587
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002588try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002590":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2591Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2592
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002593Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2594
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002595Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2596Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2597
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002598Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2599Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2600Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002602When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2603and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2604
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002605Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2606 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2607
2608New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2609
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002610":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2611a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2612
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002613'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2614Likonen, March 19)
2615
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002616Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2617other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2618
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002619The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2620appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2621matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2622
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002623When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2624character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2625'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2626(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2627
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002628Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2629Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002630
2631More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2632
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002633Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2634http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2635
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002636Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2637back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2638Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639
2640Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2641No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2644terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645
2646Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2647
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002648Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2649but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2650that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002652Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2653Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2656popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2657size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2658This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2659
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002660When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2661it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2662
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002663Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2664then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2665files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002666Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2667indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2668":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002669in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2670quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002671Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002672
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2674parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2675neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2676particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2677Jun 3)
2678However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2679the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002680
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002681A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2682Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002684Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2685Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2686
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002687Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2688switch list is noticed:
2689 switch (i)
2690 {
2691 case 1:
2692 foobar:
2693 }
2694
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002695Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2696
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002697Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2698with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2699go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2700moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2701
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002702Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002703GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002704Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2705argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2706(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2707
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002708Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2709(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2710
2711Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2712makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2713.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002714 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002715
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27172007 Feb 8)
2718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002719Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2720set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002721
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2723
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002724Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2725Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2726New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2727patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2728
2729Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2730Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2731
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002733label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2734
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002735Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2736with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2737Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002738
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002739Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2740
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002741Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2742Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2743only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2744
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002745Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2746Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002747Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002748properly?
2749
2750Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27512007 Jun 21)
2752
2753When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2754Jun 18)
2755
2756If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002758Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2759windows. (Adam George)
2760
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002761In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2762the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2763
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002764C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2765
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2767
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002768When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002769error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002770
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002771GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2773
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2775if_ruby.c.
2776
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002777":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2778
2779The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2780it in keep_msg?
2781
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002783error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2785
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002786Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2787longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002788
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002789Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2790Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2791Also for ":w" without a file name.
2792The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002793
2794"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2795Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2796
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002797VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2798directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2799(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2800
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002801VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2802
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002803input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2804name?
2805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2807
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002808When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2809(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2810Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2811will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2812
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002813gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2814This also fails with --remote.
2815
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002816When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28172008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2818all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2819
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002820aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2821
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002822When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2823(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2824
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002825Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2826the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002828GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2829
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002830Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2831superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2832
2833Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2834character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2835
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002836Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2837Jun 5)
2838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28402008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2841Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2842
2843In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2844but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2845Jul 22)
2846
2847There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2848
2849Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2850":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2851somehow? Or use a new function.
2852
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2856moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2857that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2858
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002859The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2860
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002861When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002862cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2863the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2864
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002865These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2866 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2867 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2868 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2869
2870Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2871partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2872
2873In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2874buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2875reload it then?
2876
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002877For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2878
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002879Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2880only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2881
2882Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2883tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2884doesn't contain other directories.
2885
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002886Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2887Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2888
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002889Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2890 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2891 set background=dark
2892This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2893color is, not reset it.
2894
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2896start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2897show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2898middle?
2899
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002900Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2901
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002902When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2903current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2904the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2905
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002906When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2907Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2910Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2911
2912Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2913
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002914A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2915Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2916
2917Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2918Dara, 2006 June 21)
2919
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002920Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2921number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002923After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2924the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002926Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2929Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2930
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002931Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029322008 Sep 29)
2933
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2935check the result of has("patch13").
2936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002937Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2938restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2939
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002940Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2941and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2944put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2945
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002946Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2947resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2948
2949In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2950can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2951
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002952GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2953maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2954doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002955Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2956visible.
2957
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002958When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2959differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002960
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002961The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2962be only one.
2963
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002964Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002965"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2966name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2967Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002968
2969Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2970(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2973as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2974
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
297623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002977
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002978":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2979tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2980Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2983text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2984latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002986Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2987no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2988
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002989In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2990VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29912007 Oct 16)
2992
2993TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2994Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2995
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002996Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002998When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2999typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3000Sep 3, 11)
3001
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003002":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3003this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3004
3005When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3006Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3007restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3008
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003009Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30102010 Jun 30)
3011
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003012Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3013'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3014(Kartik Agaram)
3015
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003017Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003018- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3019 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3020- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3021 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3022 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3023- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3024 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3025 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003026- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3027- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003028
3029
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003030More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003031- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3032 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003033- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003034- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3035 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003036- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3037- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3038- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3039 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3040 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003041- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003042- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3043 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3044- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3045 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3046- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3047 21)
3048- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3049 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3050- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3051 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003052- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3053 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003054- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3055 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3056 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3057 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3058 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003059- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003060
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003061Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030629 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3063 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3064 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3065 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3066 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3067 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3068 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3069 (Alan Schmitt)
3070 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003071 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3072 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030739 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003074 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030758 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030767 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3077 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3078 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030798 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003080 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030817 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003082 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3083- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3084 for multi-byte characters.
3085- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3086- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3087 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3088 been given values.
3089 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030907 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3091 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3092- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3093 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3094 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30958 Add functions:
3096 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3097 Update 2004 Sep 10
3098 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3099 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003100 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003101 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3102 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3103 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3104 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3105 (2003 May 13)
3106 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3107 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003108 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3109 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003110 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3111 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3112 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031137 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3114 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031157 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3116 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031178 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3118 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031197 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31208 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3121 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31227 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3123 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031247 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3125- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3126 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3127 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003128- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3129 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3130- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3131
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003132Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3133- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3134 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3135
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003136Quickfix/Location List:
3137- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3138 #2999)
3139- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3140 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3141 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3142 the quickfix buffer?
3143- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3144 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3145- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3146 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3147- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3148 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3149 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3150- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3151 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3152- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3153- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3154 2007 Jan 1)
3155- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3156 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3157- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3158 errors. How do we get the rest?
31598 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3160 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3161 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3162 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31637 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3164 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003165
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003166Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003167- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3168 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031698 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3170 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3171 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3172 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3173 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3174 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031758 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3176 make Vim exit.
31777 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3178 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3179 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31808 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3181 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3182 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31836 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3184 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3185 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31868 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3187 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3188 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3189 names in one buffer???
3190 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3191 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3192 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31937 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3194 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3195 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003196 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3197 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031987 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3199 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32007 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32017 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032027 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3203 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3204 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3205 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32067 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32077 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32087 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3209 to the match with the tag? Option?
32107 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3212 (Sayre).
32137 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3214 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032157 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3216 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3217 match. Nvi can do it too.
32187 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3219 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3220 line 1\ line 2\\
3221 line 2\ line 3\\
3222 . line4/
32236 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3224 the way the shell is started?
32256 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3226 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3227
3228
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003229GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032309 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032318 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3232 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3233 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032348 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3235 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3236 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032379 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3238 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3239 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3240 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003241- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3242 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3243 blocked for now.
3244
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003245
3246Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003247- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3248 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032498 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3250 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3251 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032526 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3253 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032548 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3255 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3256 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032577 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3258 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3259 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032607 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3261 2004 May 9)
32628 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3263 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3264 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3265 MS-Windows 98?
3266 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3267 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3268 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3269 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3271 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3272 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3273 doesn't work properly.
32748 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3275 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3276 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32779 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3278 button doesn't give popup menu.
3279 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3280 selection.
3281 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3282 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3283 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32848 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3285 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3286 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3287 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32888 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3289 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3290 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032917 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3292 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003293 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032947 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3295 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032966 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32978 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3298 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3299 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33008 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3301 know which keyboard is being used?
33027 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3303 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3304 area (Koloseike).
33058 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3306 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3307 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3308 the font name).
3309
3310
3311Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033126 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3313 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3314 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3315 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3316 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033179 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3318 required and it's missing?
33198 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3320 wrong.
33219 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3322 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033239 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003324 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3325 flag.
33268 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3327 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3328 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33298 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33306 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3331 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3332 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3333 the tooltips work though...
33347 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3335 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33368 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3337 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3338 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3339
3340
3341Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033429 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3343 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033449 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3345 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3346 through files.
33477 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3348 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33494 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3350 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3351 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3352 problem during a refresh.
33535 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3354 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3355 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3356 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3357 colors as it should.
3358 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3359 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3360
3361
3362Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003363- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033647 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3365 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033668 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3367 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3368 (Phillipps)
3369
3370
3371GUI:
33729 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3373 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33749 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003375 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003376 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33779 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3378 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33798 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3380 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33818 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3382 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3383 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33848 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3385 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3386 of where it is processing the output.
3387 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33888 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3389 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033908 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033918 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3392 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3393 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033948 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033958 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3396 browse().
33978 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3398 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33998 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3400 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034017 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3402 - regexp on/off
3403 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3404 when all buffers/directory is used:
3405 - filter for file name
3406 when directory is used:
3407 - subdirectory on/off
3408 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034098 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3410 to avoid problems.
34118 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3412 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3413 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34148 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3415 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3416 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34178 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3418 up. Set erase character somehow?
34198 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3420 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3421 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3422 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34238 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34247 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3425 visible.
34267 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3427 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34287 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3429 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34308 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3431 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34328 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3433 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3434 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3435 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3436- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34374 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3438 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3439 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3440
3441
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003442Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034438 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3444 a good fallback, thus use:
3445 $HOME
3446 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3447 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3448 $USERPROFILE
3449 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3450 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3451 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3452 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034538 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3454 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34558 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3456 Should work like in the GUI version.
34578 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3458 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34598 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3460 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34618 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3462 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3463 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034648 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3465 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3466 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3467
3468
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003469Win32 console:
34709 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3471 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3472 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3473 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3474 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3475 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3476 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3477 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3478 and the file is not saved.
3479 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3480 long name.
34818 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3482 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34837 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3484 besides the console.
34858 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34869 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3487 <C-S-i>?
34889 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3489 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34908 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3491 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003492
3493
3494Amiga:
34958 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3496 sequences.
34979 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3498 backslashes in result.
34998 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3500 all options, using white space separation.
3501
3502
3503Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003504- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035057 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3506 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3507 (Jack)
3508 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035098 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3510 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035118 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35128 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35139 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3514 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035159 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003516
3517
3518"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003519- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3520 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003521- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3522 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003523- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3524 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3525 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3526 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3527 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3528 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3529 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035309 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3531 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035329 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003533 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3534 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035358 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3536 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3537 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003538 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035397 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3540 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35418 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3542 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3543 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035447 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3545 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003546- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3547 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035488 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3549 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3550 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3551 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35527 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3553 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3554 invocations belong together.
35558 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3556 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35578 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3558 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3559 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003560 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035618 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3562 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3563 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035648 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3565 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035667 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3567 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3568 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3569 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035707 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3571 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3572 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35737 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3574 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3575 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35767 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3577 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035787 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3579 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035809 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3581 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3582 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3583 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3584 script can be called.
35858 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3586 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3587 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035888 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3589 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035908 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003591 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3592 configurable?
35938 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035948 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3595 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035968 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3597 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035988 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3599 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036009 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3601 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3602 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036037 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036048 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3605 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3606 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036078 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3608 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003609 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3610 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3612 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36139 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3614 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3615 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003616 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036177 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3618 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036197 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3620 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3621 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3622 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036238 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003624 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3625 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3626 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3627 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003628 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3629 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003630 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003631 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003632 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3633 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3634 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3635 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3636 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036378 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3638 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36398 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3640 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36418 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3642 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3643 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36448 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3645 'linebreak'.
36468 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3647 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3648 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036499 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3650 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3651 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3652 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36539 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3654 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036559 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36569 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3657 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3658 cause another redraw, etc.
36598 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3660 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36618 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3662 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3663 ":w!!" for that.
3664 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3665 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003666 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036677 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3668 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3669 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3670 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3671 clipboard)
36727 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3673 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3674 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036756 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3676 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3677 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036788 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3679 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36808 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3681 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3682 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36838 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3684 (e.g., ":w").
36858 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3686 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036878 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3688 script in do_cmdline().
36898 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3690 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3691 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3692 changes.
36938 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3694 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36958 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3696 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036978 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3698 to skip catch_signals()?
36999 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3700 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3701 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3702 text?
37038 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3704 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37058 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3706 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37079 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3708 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3709 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3710 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3711 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37127 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3713 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3714 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3715 in the list?
37168 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3717 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3718 instead of on button down.
37198 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37209 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3721 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003722 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3723 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037248 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3725 character is typed.
37268 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3727 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37288 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3729 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37308 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3731 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3732 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3733 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3734 cygwin bash.
37357 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3736 Remember flags for backreferences.
37377 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3738 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37397 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3740 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37418 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3742 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37437 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3744 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037457 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3746 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3747 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37487 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3749 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37508 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3751 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3752 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37537 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3754 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003755
3756
3757I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37589 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3759 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3760 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761
3762
3763Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003764- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3765 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3766 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003767- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3768 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3769 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3770 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3771 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3772 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003773 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003774- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3775 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003776 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003777 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3778 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3779 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003780- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3781 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3782 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3783 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3784 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3785- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3786 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3787 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3788- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3789 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003790- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003791- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3792 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3793 character gets the highlighting.
3794- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3795 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3796- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3797 (Jennings)
3798- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003800- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003801 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003802- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3803 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3804 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3805- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3806 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3807 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3808 (Benzinger).
3809- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3810 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3811 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3812- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3813 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3814- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3815 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3816- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3817 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3818 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3819 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3820 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3821 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3822- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3823 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3824 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003825- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3826 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3827 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3829 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3830 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3831- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3832 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3833- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3834 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003835- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3836 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3837- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3838 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3839 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3840 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3841 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3842- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3843 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3844 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3845- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3846 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3847 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003848- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3849 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 +00003850- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3851 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3852 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3853 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3854 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3855- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3856 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3857
3858--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3859 *extensions-improvements*
3860
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003861Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3862- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3863 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3864 calling a function.
3865 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3866 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003867- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3868 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003869 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003870- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3871 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3872 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3873 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3874 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3875 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003876 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003877- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3878 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3879 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003880- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3881 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038828 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3883 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3884 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3885 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003886- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3887 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003888
3889
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003890Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038918 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3892 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038938 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3894 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038958 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3896 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038978 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038989 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3899 - change to cursor position and curswant
3900 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3901 - how it works for folded lines
3902 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39039 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3904 work too.
39058 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3906 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3907 text.
39088 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39097 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3910 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39117 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3912 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003913 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003914- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3915
3916
3917Help:
3918- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3919 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3920- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3921 to the other matches.
3922- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3924 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3925 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3926 default contents.
3927- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3928 height for the help window (and other windows).
3929- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3930- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3931- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3932
3933
3934User Friendlier:
39358 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3936 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3937 Briscoe)
39388 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39398 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3940 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3941 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39428 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3943 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3944- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3945 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003946- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39479 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3948 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3949 item?).
3950 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039518 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039527 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3953 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3954 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039558 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3956 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3957 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3958 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959
3960
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003961Tab pages:
39629 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039637 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3964 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039658 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039668 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039677 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039687 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003969 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039708 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3971 tab pages.
39727 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3973
3974
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003975Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003976- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3977 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3978- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3979 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3980 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3981- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3982 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003983- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3984 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3985 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003986- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3987 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3988 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003989- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3990 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003991- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003992 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3993 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039948 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3995 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39968 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3997 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39988 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3999 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004000 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004001 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4002 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4003 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4004 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004005- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4006 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004007- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004008- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4009 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004010- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004011 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004012- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004013 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004014- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4015 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004016- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4017 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4018- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004019 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004020 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4021 in the affix file separately.
4022 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004023 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004024 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4025 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4026 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4027- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4028 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4029 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4030 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4031 Alternative:
4032 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4033 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4034 affix which is required.
4035- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004036 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004037- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4038 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4039 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004040- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4041 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004042- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4043 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4044- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040458 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4046 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4047 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4048 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004049- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4050 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4051 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4052 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040538 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4054 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040558 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40568 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4057 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040587 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40598 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4060 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4061 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4062 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004063
4064
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004065Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040669 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4067 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040688 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004069 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004070
4071Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004072 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4073 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040748 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4075 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040768 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4077 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040788 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4079 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4080 user aware of this?
40818 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4082 commands skip over a closed fold.
40838 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40848 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040857 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004086- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4087 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4088 missing line goes unnoticed.
4089 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004090- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4091 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4092 smoother?
4093- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4094 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004095- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4096 file can contain:
4097 args version.c main.c
4098 edit version.c
4099 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004100- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004101- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4102 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4104 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004105- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4106 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004108
4109Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004110- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4111 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4112 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4113 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041149 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4115 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4116 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4117 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041189 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4119 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4120 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041218 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4122 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4123 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4124 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4125 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4126 item.
41278 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004128 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4129 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041308 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4131 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041328 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4133 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4134 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041357 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4136 so that the user can fix the problem.
41378 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4138 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041399 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41408 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041418 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41428 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041437 Searching and composing characters:
4144 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004145 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4146 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041478 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41488 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41498 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4150 characters.
41518 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41528 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4153 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41547 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4155 'display' option to specify this.
41567 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4157 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4158- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4159 fontselector somehow.
4160- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4161 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4162- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4163 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4164- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4165 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4166 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4167 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4168 if a font exists?
4169- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004170 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004171- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4172 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004173- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4174 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4175 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4176 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004177- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4178 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004179 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004180- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4181 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4182 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4183 But it's very complicated...
4184
4185
4186Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041877 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4189- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4190 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004191- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4192 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004193- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4194- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4195 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004196- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4197 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4199 units as for the margins.
4200- Support right-to-left text?
42018 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4202 color.
4203
4204
4205Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4207 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42088 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4209 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42108 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4211 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042127 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4213 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4215 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4216 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042177 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4218 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4219 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042208 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42219 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4222 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042237 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4224 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042257 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4226 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042278 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4228 change this for each release.
42298 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4230 pattern, but not in the body.
42318 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4232 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4233 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042358 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004236 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4237 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042388 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4239 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42408 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4241 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004242 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4244 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4245 used.
42468 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4247 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42488 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4249 re-insert the [] if possible.
42508 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4251 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042528 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4253 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4254 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4255 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4256 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042578 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4258 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42598 Support for deleting syntax items:
4260 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4261 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4262 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42638 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4264 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4265 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42667 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4267 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4268 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42697 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4270 detected.
42718 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004272 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042738 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4274 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042758 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42768 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42777 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4278 ":mkvimrc".
42798 Improve c.vim:
4280 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4281 "c_strict_ansi".
4282 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42838 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4284 current line while in Insert mode.
42858 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4286 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42878 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4288 display position.
42898 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4290 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4291 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42928 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4293 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4294 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042957 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4296 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4297 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4298 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4299 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043007 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4301 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4302 E.g. for this html:
4303 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043047 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43057 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4306 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43088 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043097 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4310 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4311 completion?
43128 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4313 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43147 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4315 select one of the sets.
43168 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4317 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4318 2, etc.
43198 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4320 highlighting (for "." command).
43218 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4322 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43238 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43247 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4325 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43266 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4327 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4328- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4329 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4330- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004331- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4332 (for comment blocks).
4333- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4334 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4335 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4336 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4337 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4338 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4339 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4340 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4341 (Campbell)
4342 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4343 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43447 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4345 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43467 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4347 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4348 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43497 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4350 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4351 messages. And external commands?
43528 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4353 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43547 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4355 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4356
4357
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004358Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043598 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4360 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004361 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043627 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4363 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4364 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043658 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4366 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004367- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043688 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4369 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4370 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4371 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4372 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4373 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043747 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4375 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043768 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043778 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4378 can be the plugin name.
4379 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4380 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043817 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4382 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4383 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4384 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4385 autocommand.
4386 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4387 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4388 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4389 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043907 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4391 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043926 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4393 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004395 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4396 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004397 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4398 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4399 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004400 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4401 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4402 3 2002
4403 Only add this when also implemented for
4404 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4405 be used.
4406 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004407 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4408 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4409 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4410 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4411 File.Open..." argument.
4412 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4413 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4414 with properties instead.
4415 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4416 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4417 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004418 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004419 crypt() encrypt string
4420 decrypt() decrypt string
4421 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4422 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004423 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004424 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004425 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004426 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004428 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4429 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004430 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4431 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004432 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004433 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4434 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4435 to allow the library to execute a command or
4436 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044377 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4438 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44398 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4440 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044418 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4442 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044438 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044449 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44466 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044478 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4448 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044498 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4450 option or environment variable.
44518 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044528 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004453 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044547 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4455 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044568 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4457 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44588 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44598 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4460 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4461 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4462 charwise({expr}).
44637 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4464 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4465 buffer for this?
4466 result = scratch(string, command)
4467 result = apply(string, command)
4468 result = execute(string, command)
4469 "command" would use <> notation.
4470 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44717 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004472
4473
4474Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044756 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4476 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4477 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4478 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4479 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4480 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4481 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004482
4483
4484Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044857 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4486 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044877 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4488 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4489 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4490 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044918 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4492 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4493 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4494 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004495 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044968 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44979 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44988 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44997 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4500 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45018 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4502 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4503 when starting up in a color terminal.
45048 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4505 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4507 function be improved?
45088 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4509 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4510 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4511 this be improved?
45128 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4513 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045147 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4515 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045167 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4517 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45187 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4519 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045207 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4521 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4522 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4523 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4524 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4525 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4526 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045278 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4528 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4529 using strcmp() too often?
45307 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4531 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4532 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4533 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4534 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4535 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45367 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4537 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4538 with an argument that can be messed with.
4539 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4540 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45417 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4542- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45438 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4544 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4545- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4546 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4547- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4548- Do profiling on:
4549 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4551 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4552 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4553 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4554 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4555 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004556 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045577 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4558 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4559 changed).
4560 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4561 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4562- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4563- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4564 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4565- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4566 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4567 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004568- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4569- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4570 cursor is right of the screen.
45718 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4572 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4573
4574
4575Code size:
45768 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4577- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4578 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45798 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45808 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4581 it.
45827 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4583 left out.
45848 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4585 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045868 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004587
4588
4589Messages:
45908 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4591 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45928 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4593 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45948 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4595 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004596- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4597 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4598- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045998 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4600 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046019 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4602 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4603 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4604 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4605 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046068 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4607 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46088 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4609 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4610 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4611 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4612 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4613 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004614- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004615 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046168 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4617 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4618 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4619 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4620 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4621 error messages, printing text, etc.
46228 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4623 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4624 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4625
4626
4627Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004628- screen_line():
4629 - insert/delete character stuff.
4630 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4631- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4632 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4633- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4634 waiting for a character.
46358 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4636 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4637 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004638
4639Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046408 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046416 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4642- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4643 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4644 windows.
46457 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4646 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4647 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4648- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4649 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4650 (Goldfarb)
4651- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4652 bound windows.
4653- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4654 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004655- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004656- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4657 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4658 of lines but not with a single line).
4659
4660
4661Autoconf:
46628 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46638 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4664 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4665- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4666 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4667- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4668- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4669- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4670
4671
4672Perl interface:
46738 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046747 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46757 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46766 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4677
4678
4679Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046808 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4681 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046826 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4683 :libload internal-name libname
4684 :libunload internal-name
4685 :liblist
4686 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4687 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4688 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46896 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4690
4691
4692Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046939 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4694 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4695 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4696 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4697 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046988 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4699 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4700 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004701 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004702 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047037 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4704 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4705 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047068 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47078 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4708 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047097 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4710 window for each tag.
47117 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47127 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4713 bottom" search message.
47147 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4715 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4716 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004717- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4718- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004719- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4720 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4721 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4723 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4724 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4725 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47267 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4727 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4728 :tagargs clear
4729 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4730 matching).
47317 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4732 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4733 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4734 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47357 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4736 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47377 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4738 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4739 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004740
4741
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004742Win32 GUI:
47438 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4744 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047457 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4746 (Mike McCollister)
47478 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4748 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4749 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4750 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4751 common part of the path.
47528 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47538 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4754 gettext and menus work.
47558 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4756 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004757 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004758 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47598 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4760 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47618 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4762 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47637 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4764 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47657 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47667 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47677 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4768 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4769 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4770 prompts.
47717 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4772 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4773 the file added into an already running Vim.
47747 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4775 functions to find the window title.
4776
4777
4778GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047798 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004780- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4781 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47827 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47838 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47846 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47858 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4786 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47879 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47887 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47898 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4790 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47918 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4792 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4793 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47948 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4795 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47968 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4797 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4798 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4799 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048007 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48018 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4802 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048037 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4804 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4805 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048068 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48078 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004808 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048098 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48108 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48118 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4812 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4813 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48147 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4815 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4816 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48177 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4818 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48197 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4820 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4821 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4822 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048237 Should support multi-column menus.
4824- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4825 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4826- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48278 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48286 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4829 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48307 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48317 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4832 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4833 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48347 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48358 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4836 name can be chosen free.
48377 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4838 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48396 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4840 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4841 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4842 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4843 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4844 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4845 things.
48467 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4847 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048487 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004849 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004850- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4851 where it was started from?
48527 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4853
4854
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004855Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048569 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4857 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004858- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048598 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4860 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4861 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4862 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48638 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4864 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048657 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4866 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4867 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4868 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048697 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048708 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4871 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048728 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4873 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4874 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048757 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4876 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4877 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048788 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4879 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4880 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048818 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4882 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048838 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048846 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4885 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048867 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048877 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004888 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4889 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4890 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048915 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4892 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4893 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48947 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4895 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4896 file.
48978 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4898 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4899 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004900- Add events to autocommands:
4901 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004902 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004903 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4904 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004905 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004906 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4908 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4909 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4910 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004911 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4913 the char.
4914 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4915 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4916 file from CVS).
4917 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4918 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4919 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4920 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4921 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4922 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004923 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4924 changes.
4925 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4926 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004927- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004928 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004929 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004930 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4931 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4932 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4933 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4934 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4935
4936
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004937Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004938- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4939 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004940- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4941 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4942 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4943 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4944 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004945- Ideas from others:
4946 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4947 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4948 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4949 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4950 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4951 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4952 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4953 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4954 Uses Perl for C++.
4955 Uses ctags to find the info:
4956 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4957 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4958 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4959 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4960 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4961 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004962 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004963 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4964- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4965
4966
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004967Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004968- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049697 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4970 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049717 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4972 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4973 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049748 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4975 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49769 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4977 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4978 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049798 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4980 - ignore/match case
4981 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049828 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4983 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4984 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4985 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4986 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4987 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049888 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049897 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4990 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049918 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4992 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4993 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4994 Should work for C++ and Java.
4995 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49967 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49977 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4998 instead of words.
49998 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50008 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5001 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50028 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5003 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005004- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5005 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5007 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5008 wildcards in the file name)?
5009- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5010- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5011- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5012 be in another file).
5013- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5014- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5015- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5016 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5017- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5018- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5019- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005020- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5021
5022
5023Command line editing:
50247 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5025 line.
50268 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5027 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5028 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5029- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5030 lines wraps to start of line).
5031- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5032 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5033 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5034 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5035 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5036 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5037 cmdwin does now already.
5038 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5039 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5040 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5041 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5042 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5043 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5044 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5045 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5046 Problems:
5047 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5048 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5049 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5050 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5051 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5052 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5053 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5054 character in first column?
5055 - Implementation ideas:
5056 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5057 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5058 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5059 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5060 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5061 Mode.
5062
5063
5064Command line completion:
50658 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50668 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5067 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50688 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5069 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050708 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5071 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050727 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5073 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005074- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5075- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5076 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050778 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5078 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50797 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5080 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5081- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5082 identifiers (Webb).
50838 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5084 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50857 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5086 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5087- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5088 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5089- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5090 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5091 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005092
5093
5094Command line history:
5095- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5096 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5097 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005098 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005099- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5100 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5101
5102
5103Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051049 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5105 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5106 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051078 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5108 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5109 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5110 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5111 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051128 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5113 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5114 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051157 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5116 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005117- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051187 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5119 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5120- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5121 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5122 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5123 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5124 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5125 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5126- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5127 Normal mode.
5128- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5129 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5130 are used.
5131- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5132- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5133- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5134
5135
5136'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051379 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5138 char * veryLongName =
5139 "very long string"
5140 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051418 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051428 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5143 long_type foo =
5144 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051458 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5146 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005147 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051488 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5149 func(
5150 new String[] {
5151 "asdf",
5152 "asdf"
5153 }
5154 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051558 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5156 (Chow Loong Jin)
5157 namespace {
5158 int
5159 func(int arg) {
5160 }
5161 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051626 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5163 func( arg1
5164 , arg2
5165 , arg3
5166 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051677 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005168 func(
5169 int x) // indent like "(4"
5170 {
5171 if (a
5172 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051739 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5174 if (a)
5175 {
5176 if (b)
5177 {
5178 // {
5179 }
5180 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005181 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5182 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5183 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005184- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005185 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51867 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5187- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5188 line).
5189- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5190- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5191 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005192- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5193 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5194- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5195 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5196- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5197- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5198 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51998 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5200 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5201 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5202- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5203- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5204 lines start with "\item".
5205- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5206 /* here is a comment that
5207 is just autoindented, and
5208 nothing else */
5209- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52107 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5211 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5212 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005213 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214
5215
5216Java:
52178 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5218 Odendahl?
52198 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5220 "[i" commands and friends.
5221- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5222 (Jason)
5223- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5224 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5225
5226
5227'comments':
52288 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5229 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5230 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5231 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005232 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5233 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052347 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5235 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52367 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52376 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5238 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5239 regexp is used.
52408 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5241 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5242
5243
5244Virtual edit:
52458 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052467 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5247
5248
5249Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052508 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052518 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052528 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005253 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052548 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5255 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005256 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5257 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052588 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052598 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5260 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052618 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5262 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5263 the end of the line or before a ".".
52647 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5265 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52667 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5267 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052686 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52695 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5270 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5271 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5272 cursor is on.
5273
5274
5275Select mode:
52768 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5277 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52787 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005279 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052807 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5281 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5282 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5283 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5284 normal_cmd().
5285 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5286 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5287
5288
5289Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052908 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5291 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005292- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5293 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5294 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005295- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5296 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5297 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052988 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005299 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005300 where needed.
53017 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5302 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53037 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5304 of each selected line.
53058 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53068 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5307 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5308 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53098 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5310 Ben Godfrey)
53117 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5312 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53137 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5314 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053157 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005316 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53188 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5319 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53207 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5321 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5322 option!
53237 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5324 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5325 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5326 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5327 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5328 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5329 without changing the column.
53306 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053317 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5332 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053336 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5334 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53356 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053366 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005337 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005338 or other special character.
53396 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5340
5341
5342More advanced repeating commands:
5343- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005344- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005345- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005346 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5347 "y." will repeat last yank.
5348 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5349 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5350 and/or pick an older command.
5351- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5352
5353
5354Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053558 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5356 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5357 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53588 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53597 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5360 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053618 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5362 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53638 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053647 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053658 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5366 entering search strings.
53678 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5368 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5369 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053708 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5371 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053727 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053737 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5374 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053756 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5376 abbreviations are to be used.
5377- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5378 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5379 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005380- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5381 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5382 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5383 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5384 Or implicit:
5385 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005386- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5387 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5388 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005389- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5390 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5391- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5392 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53936 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5394 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5395 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5396 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005397- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5398 non-replace Insert mode?
5399- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5401- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5402 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5403- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005404 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5406 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5407- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5408- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5409 ":freekeys".
5410- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5411
5412
5413Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005414- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5415 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5416- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5417 folds when going to another line.
5418 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5419- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5420 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5422 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5423 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005424- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5425 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5426 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5427 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054289 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5429 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005430
5431
5432Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054339 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054348 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005435 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005436 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005437 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005438 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054399 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5440 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054418 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5442 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054438 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5444 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5445 Perl does it this way:
5446 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5447 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5448 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5449 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054508 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5451 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5452 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054537 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5454 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054558 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5456 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054577 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5459 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5460 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054617 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005462 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054637 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5464 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054658 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5466 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54678 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5468 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054697 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005470 example.
54718 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5472 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5473- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5474 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5475 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5476 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054778 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5478 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5479 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54807 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5481 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054827 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5483 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054848 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5485 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054868 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5487 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054888 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5489 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5490 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5491 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005492- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5493 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005494- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5495 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5496- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5497 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5498 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5499 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055008 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5501 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5503 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055048 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5505 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5506 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5508 i ignore case
5509 I use case
5510 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5511 v use Vi regexp syntax
5512 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5513 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5514 Perl uses these too:
5515 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5516 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5517 o compile only once (Perl only)
5518 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5519 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5520 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5521 following command.
5522 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5523- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5524 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5525 for search string)?
55267 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5527 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5528- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5529 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5530- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5531 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5532- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5533- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005534 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005535 a for the next file in the argument list
5536 f for file in the buffer list
5537 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005538 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5539 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005540 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5541 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5542- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055437 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005544 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055457 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5546 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5547 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5548 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55496 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5550 effects.
55517 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5552 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5553 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055547 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005555 Also ":dselect".
5556
5557
5558Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055599 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5560 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5561 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055629 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5563 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055648 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5565 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055668 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5567 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5568 timestamp?
5569 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5570 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005571- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5572 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5574 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5575 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55768 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5577 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5578 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5579 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55808 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5581 only remember the lines that really changed.
55827 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5583 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5584 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5585 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5587 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5588- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5589 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5590- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5591 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5592 [-99].
5593- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5594- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005595- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5596 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5597
5598
5599Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056007 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5601 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5602 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5603 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56048 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5605 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56068 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5607 inode too.
56087 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005609 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5610 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056117 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5612 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5613- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5614 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5615- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5616 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56177 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5618 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56197 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5620 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56218 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056227 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5623 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056248 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5625 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5626 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005627
5628
5629Swap (.swp) files:
56308 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5631 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5632 there are short file name problems.
56338 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5634 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56358 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56368 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005637 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005638 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5639 file the same as the actual file?
5640 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056417 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5642 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56437 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005644 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005645 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5646 enough room.
56477 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5648 or /var/preserve.
5649- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5650 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5651- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005652 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005653- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5654 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5655 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5656 cached list of which line is where.
5657
5658
5659Viminfo:
56607 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5661 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5662 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056638 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5664 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5665 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056668 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5667 name. (Schild)
56688 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56698 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056708 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056718 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5672 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5673 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5674 this?
56757 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56767 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5677 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56786 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5679 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5680 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5681- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5682 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5683
5684
5685Modelines:
56868 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5687 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5688 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005689- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5690 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5691 'shiftwidth'.
5692- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5693 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005694- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5695 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5696 modeline setting.
5697- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5698 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5699- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5700 .cpp files.
5701- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5702 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5703- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5704 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5705
5706
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005707Sessions:
57088 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5709 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57107 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5711 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057128 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5713 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057148 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5715 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5716 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057177 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5718 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057197 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005720
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005721
5722Options:
57237 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5724 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057258 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5726 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5727 also be supported.
57288 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5729 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5730 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57317 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005732
5733
5734External commands:
57358 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5736 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57374 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5738 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5739 -f).
57404 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57414 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5742 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57434 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5744
5745
5746Multiple Windows:
57477 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57488 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5749 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57507 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5751 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5752 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057537 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5754 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057557 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5756 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057576 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5758 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005759 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005760 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57617 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5762 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5763 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5764 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5765- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5766 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5767 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5768 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5769
5770
5771Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057728 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057738 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5774 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057758 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 +000057768 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5777 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57788 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5779 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5780 the mark was set.
57817 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5782 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5783 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5784 ":browse marks"?
57856 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057867 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5787 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57887 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5789 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57907 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5791 command).
57927 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5793 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5794 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5795 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57965 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5797 mappings.
57986 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5799 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5800 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5801
5802
5803Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058047 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005805 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005806- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5807 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058088 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058097 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5810 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5811
5812
5813Writing files:
5814- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5815 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5816 shortname conversion.
58178 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58188 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5819 file.
58208 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5821 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5822 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058236 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5824 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58256 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5826 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58276 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5828 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058298 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005830 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58317 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5832 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58337 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5834 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5835 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5836 waiting for a character to be typed).
58378 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5838 line of the window, like "[time]".
5839 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5840 Automatic and/or with a command.
5841
5842
5843Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058448 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5845 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058468 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5848- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5849- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58508 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5851 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005852- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005853 :s///N substitutes N times.
5854- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5855 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5856 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58577 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5858 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5859 last line column 5.
58605 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5861 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5862 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5863 (Stanislav Sitar)
5864
5865
5866Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058678 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58687 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58698 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5870 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5871 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005872- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5873- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5874 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5875- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5876- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5877
5878
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005879Argument list:
58806 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5881 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5882 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58836 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5884
5885
5886Registers:
58878 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058888 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5889 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5890 for every line.
58916 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5892 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5893 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5894- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5895 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5896- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5897 leader when line wraps?
5898- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5899 line in the range.
5900- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5901 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59028 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5903 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005904
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005905
5906Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059078 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059088 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059097 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59107 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5911
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005912Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059137 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5914 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5915 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5916 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5917 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5918 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5919 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005920 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059217 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5922 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059237 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5924 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059258 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5926 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059277 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5928 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5929 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005930- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005931 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059327 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5933 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59348 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059357 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5936 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59378 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5938 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059396 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059408 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5941 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5942 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5943 in this Vim.
59448 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005945 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059468 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5947 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5948 have it apply to the following command.
59498 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5950 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5951 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5952 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059537 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5954 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059557 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5956 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5957 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5958 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059596 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59608 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59619 Support ACLs on more systems.
59627 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5963 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059647 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5965 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5966 (truncated to fit in the space).
59677 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59688 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59698 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5970 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059717 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005972 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59737 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5974 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059757 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059767 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59777 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059788 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59798 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5980 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5981 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5982 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59838 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059848 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059858 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5986 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5987 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5988 does something like this. (Shah)
59897 Use growarray for replace stack.
59907 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5991 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59923 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059937 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5994 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059957 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5996 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005997- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5998- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5999- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6000- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60017 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6002 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6003- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6004 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006005- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006006- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6007 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6008- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6009 call "play newbeep.au").
6010- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6011 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6012 (Bhatt).
6013- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6014 blockwise registers).
6015- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6016 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6017- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6018 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6019 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6020 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060227 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6023 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6024- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6025 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6026 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6027 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6028 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060298 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6030 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060318 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6032 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6033 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6034 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6035 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6036- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006037- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060387 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6039 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6040- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6041 not in column 1.
60426 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6043 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60447 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6045- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006046- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006047 :redir #> bufname
6048 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006049- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6050 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006051- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6052 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6053 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60546 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6055 console? (Klaus Hast)
6056- Add :delcr command:
6057 *:delcr*
6058 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6059 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6060 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6061 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6062 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006063 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006064- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6065- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6066 characters from 'isprint'.
6067- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6068- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6069 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6070- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6071 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6072 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6073- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6074- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6075 Nvi).
6076- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6077 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60787 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6079- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6080 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60816 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6082- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6083 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6084 macro).
6085- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006086- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6087 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6088- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60898 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006090- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6091- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6092- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6093 if it is not the first or last window.
6094- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6095 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60967 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6097 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6098 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6099- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6100- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006101 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006102 many percent down the windows).
6103- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6104 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6105 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006106 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006107- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6108 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6109- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6110 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6111- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6112- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6113- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6114 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061158 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6116 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6117 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6118 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6119 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6121 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6122- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006123 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6124- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006125 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6126 (Webb).
6127- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006128 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006129- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6130 hex codes like 0xff).
6131- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6132 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6133 the last TYPED command.
6134- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6135- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6136- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6137 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006138- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061398 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6140 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6141 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006142- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006143 trailing '.'.
6144- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6145 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6146 find_file_in_path().
6147- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6148 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6149- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6150- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6151 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6152- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006153 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6155 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6156 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006157- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6158- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6159- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6160 to the minimal size.
6161- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6162- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6163- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6164- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6165- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6167 entered)?
6168- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6169 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006170- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006171- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6172- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6173- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6174- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6175- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6176 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006177- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061788 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6179 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6180 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6181 or in octal.
61827 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6183 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006184- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006185 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6186- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6187- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6188 insert line command).
6189- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6190- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6191- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6192- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6193- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6194 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006195- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196 yet.
6197- Implement 'redraw' option.
6198- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6199 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062007 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6201 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006202 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6203 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062048 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6205 do it.
6206- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6207- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6208 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6209- Add text justification option.
6210- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6211- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6212 off".
6213- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6214- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6215- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006216 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006217- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006218- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6220 commands.
6221- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6222- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6223- :table command (Webb)
6224- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6226- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6227- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6228- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6229- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6230 (Demirel).
6231- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6232- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6233 for use in macro's and the like.
6234- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006235 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006236- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006237 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006239 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006240 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6241- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6242 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006243- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006244 mkopttab to make option table?
6245- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6246 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6247- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6248 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006249- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6251- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6252 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006253- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062548 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6255 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6256 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6257 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6258 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062598 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6260 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6261 (Netherton)
62626 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6263 space after "(", for example.
62645 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6265 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6266 (Servatius Brandt)
6267
6268
6269From Elvis:
6270- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6271- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006272- Search patterns:
6273 \@ match word under cursor.
6274 but do:
6275 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6276 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62778 ":window" command:
6278 :win + next window (up)
6279 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6280 :win - previous window (down)
6281 :win -- idem, wrapping
6282 :win nr to window number "nr"
6283 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62847 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6285 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6286
6287
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288From xvi:
6289- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6290- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6291
6292
6293From vile:
6294- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6295- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6296 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6297
6298
6299Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006300- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6301 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006302 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006303 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6304 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006305- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6306 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6307- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6308 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6309 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6310 current layout mirrored.
6311- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6312- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6313 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6314- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6315- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6316 font in each top-level window.
6317- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6318- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6319- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6320- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6321 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006322- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6323 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6324- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6325 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63264 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6327 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6328 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6329 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006330 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6332 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6333- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6334 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6335 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6336
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006337vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338vim: set fo+=n :