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Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 Mar 28
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*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +020037Go through list of maintainers that didn't respond. (Thilo Six, Mar 19)
38
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010040
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
42
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010043Stack trace of crash: http://vpaste.net/GBt9S
44(Alexandre Provencio)
45
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010046Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
47check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
48
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010049GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
50(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010051
52Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
53complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
54Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
55
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010056Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010057
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010058Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
59not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010060
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020061Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
62Or use expand('<sid>')?
63
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010064Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes
65the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12)
66Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
67
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010068URXVT:
69- will get stuck if byte sequence does not containe expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010070- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
71 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
72
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010073When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
74for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
75Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010076
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +010077When exiting with unsaved changes, selecting an existing file in the file
78dialog, there is no dialog to ask whether the existing file should be
79overwritten. (Felipe G. Nievinski, 2011 Dec 22)
80
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010081Using Ctrl-] in a mapping does not expand abbreviations. Patch by Christian
82Brabandt, 2012 Mar 2.
83
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +010084Patch to fix member confusion in Lua interface. (Taro Muraoka, 2012 Jan 8)
85Update Jan 9.
86Carvalho merged the patch: New version 2012 Jan 19.
87
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010088Patch for option in 'cino' to specify more indent for continued conditions.
89(Lech Lorens, 2011 Nov 27)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010090Isn't this already possible? Update 2012 Feb 15.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010091
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020092Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
93v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
94
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010095Patch for: vimgrep fails when 'autochdir' is set. (Ben Fritz, 2012 Feb 4)
96
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020097Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
98- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
99 below/above).
100
101Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
1028 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
103 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
104
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200105Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100106Another for CompleteFuncOk. (Florian Klein, 2012 Jan 31)
107Name it "CompleteFuncDone".
108
109Patch for Make_mvc.mak and Make_ming.mak for Ruby support. (Yasuhiro
110Matsumoto, 2012 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200111
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100112Patch to add completion for :history command. (Dominique Pelle, 2012 Feb 26)
113
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200114Patch for 'backupcopy' default behavior for symlinks on Windows. (David Pope,
1152012 Mar 21)
116
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100117Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
118(Kikyous)
119
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200120Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
121Patch Sep 18.
122
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200123Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
124And one for gui_x11.txt.
125
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100126":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
127finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
128Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
129
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200130Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200131
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100132Issue 48: foldopen error can't be caught by try/catch
133
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200134Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
135they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
136
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100137Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
138
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100139Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
140Nov 20)
141
142`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
143(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
144
145Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
146
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200147Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
148(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
149
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100150BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
151Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
152
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200153"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
154characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
155
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100156Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
157Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
158
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100159Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
160
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100161Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
162Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
163
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200164'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
165'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
166Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200167Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200168
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200169With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
170(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
171need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
172
173Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
174only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
17521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
176
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100177Win32: Does building a 64 bit version with VC9 give warnings for int
178conversions? (Mike Williams)
179
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100180Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
181New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
182
183Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
184Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
185
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100186Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
187Jan 19)
188
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200189Win32: default for 'backupcopy' is wrong for a symbolic link. (mklink one
190two). (Benjamin Fritz, 2012 Mar 15)
191
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200192Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200193
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100194"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
195Oct 26)
196
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200197Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
198
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200199With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
200register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200201
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200202In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
203Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
204 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
205(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
206The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
207This probably reflects a bug in the program.
208The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
209 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
210 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
211 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
212 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
213 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
214 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
215Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
216
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200217popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
218Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
219
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200220Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
221
222This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
223call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
224
225When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
226(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
227
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100228Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
229Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
230
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200231Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
232
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200233Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
234doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
235Jun 17)
236
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100237When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
238then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
239from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
240
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200241Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
242":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
24315)
244
245Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
246
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200247Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
248
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200249On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
25064 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
251right type.
252
253string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
254(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
255
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200256Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
257
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200258When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
259(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
260
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200261When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
262doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
263
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002647 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
265Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
266
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200267maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
268mapping, how to restore the script ID?
269
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200270Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
271(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
272
273Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
274it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
275
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200276When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
277indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
278the help file.
279
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200280After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
281Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
282
283Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
284
285"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
286
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200287Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
28830)
289
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200290Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
291May 24) Update May 26.
292
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100293Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
294
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200295When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
296following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
297(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
298
299Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
300
301Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
3022010 Dec 18)
303
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200304With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
305number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
306Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
307
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02003088 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
309Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
310
3118 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
312 after typing something.
313Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
314function that resets did_cursorhold.
315Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
316
3177 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
318Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
319Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
320
3219 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
322 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
323Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
324
325Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
326Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
327
328Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
329Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
330
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200331In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
332or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
333sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
334
335GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
336doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
337
338GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
339
340Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
341Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
342
343Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
344
3457.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
346there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
347do?
348
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200349Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
35022)
351
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100352New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
353- move compflags to separate growarray?
354- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
355 the maximum repeat for * and +?
356
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100357"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3582011 Feb 27)
359
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200360Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200361characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200362When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
363properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
364Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
365clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200366
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200367Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
368^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
369
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100370When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
371exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3729) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
373
374g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
375the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
376
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100377Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
378crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
379
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100380Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
381correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
382
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200383Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
384names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
385Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
386the system encoding (usually utf-8).
387
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200388Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
389Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
390
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200391'beval' option should be global-local.
392
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100393Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200394
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200395setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200396
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003977 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
398 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
399 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
400
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200401getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
402element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
403Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
404and that it's documented.
405
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200406With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
4072010 Oct 24)
408
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100409Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
410Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
411
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200412Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
413
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200414When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
415Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
416
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200417Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
418delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
419mkdir().
420
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200421":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
422
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200423'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
424
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100425C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
426checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
427Issue 46.
428
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100429When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
430right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
431
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200432Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
433
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100434Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
435gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
436
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200437":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
438accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
439
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200440Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
441setwinvar().
442
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200443Echo starts in the wrong column:
444 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
445(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
446
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100447Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
448
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100449When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
450(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
451
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200452Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200453(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200454
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200455When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
456instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
457
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100458Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
459
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200460Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
461Winckler, 2011 May 11)
462Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100463
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100464Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
465back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
466
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100467Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
468one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
469Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
470
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100471Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200472Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
473
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100474CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
475the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
476FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
477
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200478Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
479Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
480
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200481Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
482Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
483
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100484I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
485Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
486an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100487
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200488Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
489
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100490Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
491non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100492
493iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
494Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
495or replace with a character and continue?
496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100497Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
498Requires configure check for localtime().
499Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100501Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
502Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
503path.
504
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100505Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
506Dominique can't reproduc it.
507
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200508'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
509
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200510":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
511like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100513Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200514Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
515
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100516Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5172010 Nov 5)
518
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100519Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
520Jan 7)
521
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100522Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
523Only with "vim -u NONE".
524
525Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
526
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100527With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
528entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
529Feb 12)
530
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200531Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
532characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
533
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100534Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
535
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200536Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
537 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
538
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200539Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
540mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
541Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100542
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200543Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
544it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
545(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100546Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
547find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200548
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200549Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
550
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200551When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
552Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
553
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100554Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
555echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100557When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
558not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
559string value.
560
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200561":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
562getpwent() to find all the matches.
563
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100564Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
565
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100566For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
567line argument -noregister.
568
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100569When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
570missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
571
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200572When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
573doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100574
575Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
576(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
577Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
578There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
579Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
580
581":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
582highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
583to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
584
585Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
586Probably needs a bit of work.
587
588List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
589Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
590
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200591Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
592
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100593Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
594
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200595Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
596Sep 1)
597
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100598Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
599
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200600Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
601on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100603Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
6042009 Jul 18)
605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100606Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
607Added test, updates, June 23.
608
609Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
610window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
611Needs more work.
612
613Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
614
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100615When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
616few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
617
618'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
619(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
620
621Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
622J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
623
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200624When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
625for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
626
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200627Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
628
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200629Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
630
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100631When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
632
633":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
634because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
635ex_docmd.c.
636
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200637Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100638Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
639
640string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
641for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
642
643Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
644
645'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
64620)
647
648Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
649And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
65023)
651
652Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6532009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
654
655Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
656
657Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
658SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
659
660When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
661cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
662
663When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
664indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
665(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
666
667Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
668are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
669Ignore window options when not in the right window?
670Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
671that doesn't have a window.
672
673When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
674doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
675
676getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
677displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
678
679":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
680
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100681There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
682was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
683perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
684
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200685Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
686
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200687Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
688file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
689system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100691Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
692work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
693Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
694
695Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
696
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100697Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
698command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
699
700Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
701
702Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
703does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
704
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200705opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
706height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200707very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200708
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100709Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
710(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
711
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100712Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
713(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
714
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100715Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
716char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
717
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100718A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100720Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
721messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
722es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7232009 Jan 26)
724
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100725When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100726in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
727Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
728
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100729Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
730a modeline.
731
732Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
733Sergey Khorev)
734
735Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
736part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000737
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000738netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
739number to be below last visible line.
740
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100741After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
742correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
743
744Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
745(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
746
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100747shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
748'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
749Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
750unix-like shell?
751
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100752Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
753that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
754
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200755Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
756register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
757(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
758
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100759Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
760Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
761
762Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
763make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100765When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
766still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
767
768"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
769(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
770
771Update src/testdir/main.aap.
772
773"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
774
775Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
776that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
777ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
778Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
779
780Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
781
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000782Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
783
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100784MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
785doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
786probably causes this.
787
788'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007892009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100790
791Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
792 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
793 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
794(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
795
796Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
797":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
798option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
799is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000800
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100801":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
802first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000803
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000804Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
805laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
806Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000807
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100808Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
809anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
810
811On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
812doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
813Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
814Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
815
816":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
817
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000818When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
819'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
820fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
821the buffer to be unmodified.
822Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
823another look at it.
824
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100825c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
826(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
827
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100828You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
829error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
830Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
831at the other match for 0xBF.
832
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000833Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000834
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100835When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
836argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
837
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000838Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
839backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
840
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200841Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
842Aug 23)
843
844When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
845line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
846
847Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
848position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
849
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000850After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
851(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000852command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000853
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000854":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
855Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
856
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100857Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
858Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
859
860When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
861either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
862put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000864Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
865Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
866Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
867Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
868(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
869
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100870Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
871
872ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000874Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
875(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
876escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
877an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000878This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
879July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000880
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000881Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8822008 May 14)
883
884Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
885Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
886'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
887
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100888Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
889Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
890
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000891Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
892Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
893
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100894Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
895
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000896The utf class table is missing some entries:
897 0x2212, minus sign
898 0x2217, star
899 0x2500, bar
900 0x26ab, circle
901
902Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
903line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
904
905GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
906Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
907
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100908Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
909try the Cocoa version.
910
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000911Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
912changed or the window is resized.
913
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100914GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
915the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
916
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000917Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
918Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000919
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000920Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9211) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
922
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000923C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
924with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
925Try to reproduce at work.
926
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100927Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
928Is there a way to list all the files first?
929
930When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
931result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
93216)
933
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200934Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
935Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
936
937Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
938(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
939
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000940Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
941Await response to question to make the register writable.
942
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100943src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
944remark why.
945
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000946Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9471)
948
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100949In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
950each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
951
952try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
953
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100954try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100956":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
957Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
958
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100959Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
960
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000961Including NFA regexp code:
962Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
963Useful in tests.
964Performance tests:
965- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
966- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
967- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100968- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100969- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000970- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
971 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000972
973Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
974Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
975
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000976Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
977Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
978Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000979
980C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
981(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
982
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100983Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
984":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200985Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100986
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000987When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
988and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000990Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
991 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
992
993New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
994
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200995":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
996a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000998'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
999Likonen, March 19)
1000
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001001Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1002other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1003
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001004The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1005appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1006matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1007
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001008When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1009character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1010'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1011(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1012
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001013Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1014Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001015
1016More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1017
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001018Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1019http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1020
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001021Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1022back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1023Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001024
1025Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1026No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1027
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001028Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1029terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001030
1031Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1032
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001033Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1034but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1035that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001036
1037When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1038
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001039Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1040Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1041
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001042Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1043popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1044size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1045This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1046
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001047Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1048a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1049isn't right?
1050
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001051When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1052it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1053
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001054Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1055then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1056files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001057Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1058indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1059":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1060in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1061quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1062Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001063
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001064When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1065parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1066neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1067particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1068Jun 3)
1069However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1070the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001071
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001072A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1073Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1074
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001075Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1076Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1077
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001078Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1079switch list is noticed:
1080 switch (i)
1081 {
1082 case 1:
1083 foobar:
1084 }
1085
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001086Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001088Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1089with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1090go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1091moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1092
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001093Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001094Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010958 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1096 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1097 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001098
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001099Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
110064-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1101
1102Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1103Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1104Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1105argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1106(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1107
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001108Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1109(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1110
1111Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1112makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1113.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1114 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1115
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001116Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11172007 Feb 8)
1118
1119Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1120 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001121 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001122 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1123
1124Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1125set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001126
1127Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1128
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001129Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1130
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001131Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1132Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1133New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1134patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1135
1136Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1137Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1138
1139Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1140Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1141Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1142
1143Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1144
1145Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11462007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001147Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001148
1149Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001150label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1151
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001152Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1153with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1154Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001155
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001156Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1157pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1158
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001159Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1160
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001161Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001162Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001163Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001165Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1166Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1167only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1168
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001169Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1170Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1171
1172Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1173Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1174Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1175properly?
1176
1177Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11782007 Jun 21)
1179
1180When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1181Jun 18)
1182
1183If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1184
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001185Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1186windows. (Adam George)
1187
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001188F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1189modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1190K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001191
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001192UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1193to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1194
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001195In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1196the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1197
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001198C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1199
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001200":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1201
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001202When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001203error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001204
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001205Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1206use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001208Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1209if_ruby.c.
1210
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001211":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1212
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001213Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1214Needs more work.
1215
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001216The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1217it in keep_msg?
1218
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001219Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001220error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001221name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1222
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001223Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1224longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001226Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1227Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1228Also for ":w" without a file name.
1229The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001230
1231"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1232Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1233
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001234VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1235directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1236(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1237
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001238VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1239
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001240input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1241name?
1242
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001243Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1244
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001245When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1246(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1247Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1248will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1249
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001250gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1251This also fails with --remote.
1252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001253When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12542008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1255all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1256
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001257":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1258Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1259
1260aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001262When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1263(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1264
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001265Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1266the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1267
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001268GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001270Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1271superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1272
1273Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1274character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1275
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001276Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1277Jun 5)
1278
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001279Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12802008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1281Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1282
1283In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1284but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1285Jul 22)
1286
1287There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1288
1289Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1290":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1291somehow? Or use a new function.
1292
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001293Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001295Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1296that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001297
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001298Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1299moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1300that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1301
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001302The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1303
1304Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1305loading all files.
1306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001307Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1308line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1309after starting up?
1310
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001311When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001312cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1313the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1314
1315Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1316has been created.
1317
1318Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1319shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1320fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1321background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1322A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001323
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001324These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1325 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1326 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1327 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1328
1329Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1330partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1331
1332In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1333buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1334reload it then?
1335
1336New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1337previous version.
1338
1339For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1340
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001341Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1342only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1343
1344Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1345tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1346doesn't contain other directories.
1347
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001348Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1349 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1350 set background=dark
1351This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1352color is, not reset it.
1353
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001354Linux distributions:
1355- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1356 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1357 xfree-xterm".
1358- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1359
1360Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1361start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1362show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1363middle?
1364
1365When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001366(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001367connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1368dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1369
1370Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001372When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1373current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1374the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1375
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001376When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1377Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1378
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001379Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1380 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1381 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1382 - getting colors in xterm
1383 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1384
1385Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1386Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1387
1388Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1389
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001390A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1391Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1392
1393Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1394Dara, 2006 June 21)
1395
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001396Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1397number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1398
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001399After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1400the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1401
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001402Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1403Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1404about this.
1405
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001406Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1407copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1408error and stop using the connection to the server.
1409
1410Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1411Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1412
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001413Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010014142008 Sep 29)
1415
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001416In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1417check the result of has("patch13").
1418
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001419Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1420restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1421
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001422Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1423and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1424
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001425Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1426put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001428Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1429resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1430
1431In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1432can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1433
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001434Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14352011 May 23)
1436
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001437GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1438maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1439doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001440Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1441visible.
1442
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001443When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1444differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001445
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001446The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1447be only one.
1448
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001449"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1450script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1451
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001452It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1453the function name before resolving it to a number?
1454 let d = {}
1455 fun! d.foo()
1456 echo "here"
1457 endfun
1458 call d.foo(9)
1459
1460Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1461only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001462Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1463used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1464
1465Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1466output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1467Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1468
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001469Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001470"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1471name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1472Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001473
1474Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1475(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1476
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001477Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1478as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1479
1480Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1481Jan 1)
1482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001483Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
148423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001486":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1487tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1488Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001489
1490xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1491buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1492Xterm 224 supports it!
1493
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001494When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1495text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1496latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1497
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001498Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1499
1500Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1501no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1502
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001503In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1504VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
15052007 Oct 16)
1506
1507TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1508Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1509
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001510Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001512When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1513typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1514Sep 3, 11)
1515
1516When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1517respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1518the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1519what happens for the GUI.
1520
1521X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1522pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1523clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1524Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1525Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1526clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001528":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1529this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1530
1531When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1532Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1533restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1534
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001535Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15362010 Jun 30)
1537
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001538
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001539At next release:
1540- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1541 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001542- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1543 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001544
1545
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001546More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001547- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1548 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001549- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1550- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1551 21)
1552- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1553 patch May 10)
1554- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1555 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1556- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1557 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1558- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1559- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1560- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1561 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1562 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001563- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001564- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1565 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1566- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1567 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1568- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1569 21)
1570- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1571 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1572- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1573 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001574- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1575 Sep 13)
1576- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1577 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001578- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1579 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1580 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1581 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1582 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001583- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001584- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001585
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001586Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015879 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1588 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1589 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1590 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1591 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1592 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1593 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1594 (Alan Schmitt)
1595 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001596 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1597 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015989 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001599 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000016008 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016018 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001602 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016037 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1604 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1605 How does this work? Missing comments.
1606- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001607 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001608 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001609 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001610 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016118 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001612 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016137 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1614 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1615- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1616 for multi-byte characters.
1617- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1618- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1619 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1620 been given values.
1621 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16228 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001623 with an ESC sequence.
1624 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1625 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1626 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016277 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1628 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1629- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1630 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1631 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16328 Add functions:
1633 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1634 Update 2004 Sep 10
1635 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1636 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001637 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001638 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001639 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1640 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001641 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1642 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1643 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1644 (2003 May 13)
1645 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1646 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001647 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1648 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001649 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1650 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1651 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016527 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1653 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1654- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1655 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16567 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1657 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016588 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1659 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016607 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16618 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1662 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16637 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1664 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16658 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1666 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1667 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16687 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1669- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1670 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1671 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001672- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1673 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1674- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1675
1676
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001677Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001678- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1679 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016808 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1681 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1682 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1683 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1684 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1685 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016868 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1687 make Vim exit.
16887 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1689 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1690 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16918 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1692 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1693 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16946 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1695 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1696 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16978 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1698 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1699 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1700 names in one buffer???
1701 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1702 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1703 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
17047 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1705 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1706 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001707 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1708 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017097 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1710 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
17117 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
17127 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
17137 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1714 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17157 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1716 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1717 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1718 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17197 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17207 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17217 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1722 to the match with the tag? Option?
17237 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17247 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1725 (Sayre).
17267 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1727 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017287 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1729 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1730 match. Nvi can do it too.
17317 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1732 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1733 line 1\ line 2\\
1734 line 2\ line 3\\
1735 . line4/
17366 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1737 the way the shell is started?
17386 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1739 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1740
1741
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001742GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017439 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017448 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1745 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1746 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017478 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1748 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1749 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017509 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1751 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1752 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1753 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001754- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1755 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1756 blocked for now.
1757
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001758
1759Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001760- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1761 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017628 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1763 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017648 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1765 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17668 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1767 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1768 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17698 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1770 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17717 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1772 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1773 "lucida_console:h8").
17746 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1775 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017768 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1777 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1778 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017797 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1780 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1781 to use an opaque background in most places?
17828 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1783 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1784 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17858 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1786 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1787 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17887 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1789 2004 May 9)
17908 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1791 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1792 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1793 MS-Windows 98?
1794 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1795 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1796 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1797 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017988 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1799 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018008 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1801 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1802 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1803 doesn't work properly.
18048 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1805 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1806 appears in the right position. (Webb)
18079 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1808 button doesn't give popup menu.
1809 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1810 selection.
1811 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1812 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1813 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
18148 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1815 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1816 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1817 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18188 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1819 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1820 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018217 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1822 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1823 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18247 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1825 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001826 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018277 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1828 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018296 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18308 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1831 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1832 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18338 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1834 know which keyboard is being used?
18357 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1836 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1837 area (Koloseike).
18388 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1839 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1840 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1841 the font name).
1842
1843
1844Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018456 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1846 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1847 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1848 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1849 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018509 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1851 required and it's missing?
18528 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1853 wrong.
18549 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1855 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018569 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001857 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1858 flag.
18598 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1860 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1861 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18628 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18636 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1864 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1865 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1866 the tooltips work though...
18677 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1868 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18698 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1870 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1871 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1872
1873
1874Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018759 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1876 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018779 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1878 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1879 through files.
18807 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1881 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18824 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1883 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1884 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1885 problem during a refresh.
18865 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1887 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1888 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1889 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1890 colors as it should.
1891 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1892 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1893
1894
1895Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001896- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018977 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1898 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018998 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1900 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1901 (Phillipps)
1902
1903
1904GUI:
19059 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1906 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
19079 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001908 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001909 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
19109 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1911 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
19128 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1913 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
19148 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1915 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1916 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19178 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1918 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1919 of where it is processing the output.
1920 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19218 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1922 doesn't work.
19238 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019248 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1925 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1926 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019278 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019288 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1929 browse().
19308 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1931 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19328 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1933 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019347 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1935 - regexp on/off
1936 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1937 when all buffers/directory is used:
1938 - filter for file name
1939 when directory is used:
1940 - subdirectory on/off
1941 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019428 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1943 to avoid problems.
19448 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1945 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1946 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19478 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1948 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1949 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19508 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1951 up. Set erase character somehow?
19528 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1953 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1954 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1955 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19568 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19577 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1958 visible.
19597 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1960 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19617 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1962 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19638 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1964 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19658 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1966 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1967 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1968 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1969- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19704 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1971 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1972 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1973
1974
1975MSDOS/DJGPP:
19769 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1977 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1978 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19798 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1980 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19819 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001982 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1983 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019849 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1985 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1986 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1987 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19889 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1989 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1990 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1991 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1992 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1993 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1994 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1995 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1996 key code. Use a translation table?
19979 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1998 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19998 Use DJGPP 2.03.
20008 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2001 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
20028 setlocale() is bogus.
20038 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2004 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2005 Windows 95 system!
20068 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000020077 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002008 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
20097 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2010 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2011 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
20128 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2013 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
20147 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2015 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2016 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2017 "[New file]".
20187 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2019 that is supported?
20208 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20218 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2022 Briscoe)
2023
2024
2025MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20268 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2027 gen_expand_wildcards().
20288 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2029 Wagner.
20308 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20318 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2032 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020338 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2034 a good fallback, thus use:
2035 $HOME
2036 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2037 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2038 $USERPROFILE
2039 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2040 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2041 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2042 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020438 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2044 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20458 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2046 Should work like in the GUI version.
20478 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2048 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20498 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2050 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20518 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2052 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2053 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020548 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2055 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2056 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2057
2058
2059Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020608 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002061 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2062 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20638 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2064 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2065
2066
2067Win32 console:
20689 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2069 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2070 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2071 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2072 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2073 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2074 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2075 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2076 and the file is not saved.
2077 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2078 long name.
20798 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2080 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20817 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2082 besides the console.
20838 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20849 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2085 <C-S-i>?
20869 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2087 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20888 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2089 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020907 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2091 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2092 exiting.
2093
2094
2095Amiga:
20968 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2097 sequences.
20989 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2099 backslashes in result.
21008 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2101 all options, using white space separation.
2102
2103
2104Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002105- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021067 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2107 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2108 (Jack)
2109 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021108 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2111 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021128 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
21138 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
21149 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2115 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021169 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002117
2118
2119"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002120- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2121 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002122- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2123 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002124- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2125 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2126 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2127 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2128 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2129 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2130 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021319 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2132 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021339 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002134 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2135 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021368 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2137 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2138 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002139 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021408 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2141 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21427 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2143 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21448 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2145 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2146 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021477 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2148 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002149- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2150 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021518 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2152 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2153 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2154 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21557 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2156 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2157 invocations belong together.
21588 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2159 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21608 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2161 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2162 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2163 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2164 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021658 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021668 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2167 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2168 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021696 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021708 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2171 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021727 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2173 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2174 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2175 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21768 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2177 defined.
21787 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2179 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2180 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21817 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2182 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2183 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21847 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2185 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021867 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2187 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021889 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2189 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2190 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2191 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2192 script can be called.
21938 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2194 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2195 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021968 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2197 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021988 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002199 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2200 configurable?
22018 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
22029 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2203 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2204 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022058 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2206 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022078 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2208 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022098 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2210 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022119 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2212 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2213 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022147 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022158 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2216 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2217 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022188 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2219 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002220 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2221 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022228 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2223 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22249 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2225 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2226 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002227 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022287 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2229 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022307 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2231 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2232 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2233 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022348 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002235 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2236 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2237 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2238 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002239 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2240 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002241 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002242 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002243 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2244 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2245 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2246 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2247 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22488 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2249 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22509 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2251 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2252 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022538 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2254 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22558 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2256 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22578 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2258 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2259 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22608 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2261 'linebreak'.
22628 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2263 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2264 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022659 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2266 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2267 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2268 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22699 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2270 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22719 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2272 isn't updated).
22739 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22749 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2275 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2276 cause another redraw, etc.
22778 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2278 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22798 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2280 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2281 ":w!!" for that.
2282 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2283 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002284 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022857 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2286 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2287 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2288 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2289 clipboard)
22907 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2291 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2292 Waggoner)
22938 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2294 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2295 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022966 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2297 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2298 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022998 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2300 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
23018 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2302 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2303 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000023048 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023058 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2306 (e.g., ":w").
23078 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2308 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
23098 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2310 for ">>".
23118 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2312 script in do_cmdline().
23138 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2314 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2315 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2316 changes.
23178 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2318 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23198 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2320 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23217 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2322 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2323 needed.
2324 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23258 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2326 to skip catch_signals()?
23279 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2328 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2329 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2330 text?
23318 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2332 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23338 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2334 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23359 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2336 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2337 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2338 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2339 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23407 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2341 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2342 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2343 in the list?
23448 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2345 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2346 instead of on button down.
23478 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23489 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2349 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002350 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2351 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023528 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2353 character is typed.
23548 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2355 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23568 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2357 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23588 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2359 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2360 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2361 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2362 cygwin bash.
23637 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2364 Remember flags for backreferences.
23657 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2366 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23677 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2368 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23698 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2370 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23717 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2372 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023737 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2374 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2375 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23767 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2377 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23788 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2379 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2380 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23817 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2382 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002383
2384
2385I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23869 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2387 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2388 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002389
2390
2391Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002392- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2393 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2394 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002395- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2396 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2397 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2398 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2399 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2400 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002401 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002402- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2403 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002404 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002405 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2406 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2407 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002408- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2409 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2410 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2411 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2412 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2413- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2414 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2415 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2416- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2417 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002418- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002419- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2420 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2421 character gets the highlighting.
2422- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2423 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2424- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2425 (Jennings)
2426- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2427- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2428 errors. How do we get the rest?
2429- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002430- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002431 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2432- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2433 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2434 first?
2435- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2436 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2437- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2438 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2439 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2440- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2441 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2442 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2443 (Benzinger).
2444- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2445 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2446 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2447- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2448 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2449- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2450 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2451- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2452 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2453 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2454 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2455 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2456 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2457- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2458 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2459 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002460- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2461 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2462 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002463- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2464 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2465 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2466- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2467 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2468- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2469 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2470- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2471 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2472- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2473 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2474- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2475 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2476 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2477 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2478 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2479- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2480 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2481 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2482- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2483 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2484 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002485- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2486 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 +00002487- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2488 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2489 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2490 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2491 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2492- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2493 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2494
2495--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2496 *extensions-improvements*
2497
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002498Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2499- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2500 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2501 calling a function.
2502 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2503 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002504- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2505 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2506- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2507 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2508 http://clewn.sf.net.
2509 And the idevim plugin/script.
2510 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2511 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2512 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2513 other window.
2514 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2515 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2516 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2517 in terminal mode.
2518- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2519 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2520 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2521 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2522 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2523 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002524 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002525- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2526 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2527 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002528- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2529 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002530- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2531 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2532 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025338 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2534 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2535 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2536 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002537- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2538 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002539
2540
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002541Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025428 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2543 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025448 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2545 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025468 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2547 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025488 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025497 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25509 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2551 - change to cursor position and curswant
2552 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2553 - how it works for folded lines
2554 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25559 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2556 work too.
25578 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2558 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2559 text.
25608 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25617 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2562 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25637 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2564 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002565 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002566- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2567
2568
2569Help:
2570- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2571 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2572- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2573 to the other matches.
2574- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2575- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2576- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2577 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2578 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2579 default contents.
2580- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2581 height for the help window (and other windows).
2582- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2583- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2584- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2585
2586
2587User Friendlier:
25888 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2589 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2590 Briscoe)
25918 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25928 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2593 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2594 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25958 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2596 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2597- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2598 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25998 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2600 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2601 'runtimepath'.
2602 " Vim plugin
2603 <main plugin code>
2604 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2605 <plugin docs>
2606- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
26079 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2608 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2609 item?).
2610 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026118 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
26127 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026137 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2614 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2615 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026168 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2617 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2618 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2619 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002620
2621
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002622Tab pages:
26239 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026247 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2625 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026268 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026278 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026288 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26298 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26307 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026317 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002632 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026337 Add local variables for each tab page?
26348 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2635 tab pages.
26367 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026377 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2638 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002639
2640
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002641Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002642- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2643 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2644 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2645 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002646- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2647 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2648- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2649 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2650 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2651- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2652 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002653- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2654 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2655 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002656- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2657 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2658 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002659- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2660 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002661- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002662 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2663 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026648 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2665 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26668 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2667 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26688 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2669 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002670 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002671 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2672 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2673 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2674 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002675- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2676 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002677- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002678- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2679 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002680- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002681 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002682- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002683 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002684- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2685 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002686- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2687 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2688- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002689 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002690 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2691 in the affix file separately.
2692 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002693 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002694 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2695 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2696 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2697- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2698 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2699 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2700 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2701 Alternative:
2702 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2703 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2704 affix which is required.
2705- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002706 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002707- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2708 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2709 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002710- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2711 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002712- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2713 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2714- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027158 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2716 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2717 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2718 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002719- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2720 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2721 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2722 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027238 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2724 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027258 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27268 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2727 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027287 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27298 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2730 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2731 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2732 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002733
2734
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002735Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027369 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2737 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002738 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027398 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2740 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2741 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002742 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2743 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027447 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2745 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2746 location.
2747
2748
2749Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002750 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2751 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027528 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2753 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027548 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027559 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2756 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027578 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2758 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2759 user aware of this?
27608 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2761 commands skip over a closed fold.
27628 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27638 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027647 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002765- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2766 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2767 missing line goes unnoticed.
2768 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002769- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2770 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2771 smoother?
2772- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2773 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002774- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2775 file can contain:
2776 args version.c main.c
2777 edit version.c
2778 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002779- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002780- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2781 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002782- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2783 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002784- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2785 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002786- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027878 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002788 searches.
2789
2790
2791Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002792- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2793 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2794 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2795 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027969 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2797 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2798 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2799 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020028009 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2801 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2802 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028038 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2804 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2805 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2806 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2807 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2808 item.
28098 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002810 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2811 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028128 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2813 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002814 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002815 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028168 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2817 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028188 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2819 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2820 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028217 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2822 so that the user can fix the problem.
28238 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2824 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028259 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28268 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028278 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28288 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028297 Searching and composing characters:
2830 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2831 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2832 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2833 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2834 characters can be manipulated.
2835 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2836 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028378 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28388 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28398 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2840 characters.
28418 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28428 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2843 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28447 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2845 'display' option to specify this.
28467 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2847 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2848- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2849 fontselector somehow.
2850- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2851 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2852- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2853 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2854- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2855 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2856 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2857 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2858 if a font exists?
2859- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002860 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002861- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2862 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28637 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2864 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002865- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2866 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2867 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2868 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002869- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2870 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2871 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2872- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2873 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2874 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2875 But it's very complicated...
2876
2877
2878Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028797 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002880- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2881- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2882 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002883- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2884 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002885- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2886- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2887 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002888- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2889 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002890- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2891 units as for the margins.
2892- Support right-to-left text?
28938 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2894 color.
2895
2896
2897Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028988 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2899 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
29008 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2901 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
29028 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2903 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000029047 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2905 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029068 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2907 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2908 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029097 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2910 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2911 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029128 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
29139 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2914 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029157 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2916 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029177 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2918 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029198 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2920 change this for each release.
29218 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2922 pattern, but not in the body.
29238 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2924 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2925 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29278 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2928 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2929 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2930 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29318 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2932 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29338 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2934 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002935 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029368 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2937 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2938 used.
29398 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2940 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29418 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2942 re-insert the [] if possible.
29438 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2944 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029458 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2946 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2947 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2948 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2949 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029508 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2951 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29528 Support for deleting syntax items:
2953 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2954 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2955 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29568 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2957 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2958 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29597 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2960 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2961 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29627 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2963 detected.
29648 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002965 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029668 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2967 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029688 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29698 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29707 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2971 ":mkvimrc".
29728 Improve c.vim:
2973 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2974 "c_strict_ansi".
2975 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29768 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2977 current line while in Insert mode.
29788 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2979 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29808 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2981 display position.
29828 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2983 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2984 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29858 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2986 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2987 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029888 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2989 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2990 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029917 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2992 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2993 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2994 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2995 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029967 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2997 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2998 E.g. for this html:
2999 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030007 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
30017 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3002 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030038 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
30048 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030057 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3006 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3007 completion?
30088 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3009 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
30107 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3011 select one of the sets.
30128 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3013 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3014 2, etc.
30158 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3016 highlighting (for "." command).
30178 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3018 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30198 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30207 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3021 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30226 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3023 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3024- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3025 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3026- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003027- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3028 (for comment blocks).
3029- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3030 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3031 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3032 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3033 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3034 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3035 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3036 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3037 (Campbell)
3038 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3039 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30407 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3041 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30427 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3043 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3044 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30457 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3046 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3047 messages. And external commands?
30488 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3049 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30507 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3051 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3052
3053
3054Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030558 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3056 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030577 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3058 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3059 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030608 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3061 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003062- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3063 2006 Dec 11.
3064- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030658 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3066 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3067 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3068 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3069 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3070 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030717 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3072 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030738 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30748 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3075 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3076 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3077 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3078 nested packages?
3079 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3080 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3081 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030827 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3083 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3084 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3085 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3086 autocommand.
3087 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3088 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3089 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3090 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030917 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3092 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030936 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3094 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030958 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003096 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3097 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3098 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3099 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3100 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3101 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3102 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003103 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3104 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3105 3 2002
3106 Only add this when also implemented for
3107 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3108 be used.
3109 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003110 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3111 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3112 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3113 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3114 File.Open..." argument.
3115 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3116 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3117 with properties instead.
3118 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3119 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3120 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003121 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003122 crypt() encrypt string
3123 decrypt() decrypt string
3124 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3125 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003126 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003127 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003128 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003129 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003130 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003131 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3132 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003133 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3134 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003135 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003136 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3137 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003138 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3139 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3140 to allow the library to execute a command or
3141 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031427 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3143 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31448 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3145 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031468 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3147 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031488 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031497 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3150 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31516 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031528 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3153 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031548 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3155 option or environment variable.
31568 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031578 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003158 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031597 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3160 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031618 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3162 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31638 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31648 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3165 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3166 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3167 charwise({expr}).
31687 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3169 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3170 buffer for this?
3171 result = scratch(string, command)
3172 result = apply(string, command)
3173 result = execute(string, command)
3174 "command" would use <> notation.
3175 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31767 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003177
3178
3179Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031806 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3181 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3182 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3183 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3184 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3185 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3186 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003187
3188
3189Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031907 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3191 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031927 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3193 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3194 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3195 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031968 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3197 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3198 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3199 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003200 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032018 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3202 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3203 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032048 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
32059 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
32068 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
32077 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3208 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
32098 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3210 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3211 when starting up in a color terminal.
32128 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3213 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032148 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3215 function be improved?
32168 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3217 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3218 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3219 this be improved?
32208 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3221 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032227 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3223 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032247 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3225 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32267 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3227 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032287 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032297 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3230 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3231 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3232 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3233 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3234 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3235 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032368 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3237 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3238 using strcmp() too often?
32397 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3240 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3241 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3242 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3243 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3244 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32457 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3246 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3247 with an argument that can be messed with.
3248 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3249 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32507 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3251- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32528 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3253 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3254- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3255 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3256- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3257- Do profiling on:
3258 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3259 - 1000ii<Esc>
3260 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3261 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3262 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3263 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3264 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3265 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003266 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032677 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3268 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3269 changed).
3270 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3271 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3272- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3273- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3274 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3275- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3276 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3277 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3278- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3279 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3280- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3281- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3282 cursor is right of the screen.
32838 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3284 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3285
3286
3287Code size:
32888 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3289- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3290 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32918 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32928 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3293 it.
32947 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3295 left out.
32968 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3297 can be removed.
32988 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3299
3300
3301Messages:
33028 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3303 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
33048 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3305 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
33068 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3307 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003308- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3309 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3310- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033118 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3312 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033139 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3314 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3315 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3316 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3317 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033188 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3319 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33208 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3321 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3322 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3323 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3324 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3325 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003326- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003327 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033288 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3329 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3330 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3331 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3332 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3333 error messages, printing text, etc.
33348 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3335 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3336 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3337
3338
3339Screen updating:
33407 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3341 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3342 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3343- screen_line():
3344 - insert/delete character stuff.
3345 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3346- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3347 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3348- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3349 waiting for a character.
33508 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3351 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3352 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33537 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003354
3355
3356Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033578 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033586 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3359- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3360 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3361 windows.
33627 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3363 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3364 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3365- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3366 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3367 (Goldfarb)
3368- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3369 bound windows.
3370- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3371 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003372- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003373- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3374 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3375 of lines but not with a single line).
3376
3377
3378Autoconf:
33798 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33808 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3381 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3382- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3383 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3384- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3385- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3386- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3387
3388
3389Perl interface:
33908 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033917 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33927 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33936 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3394
3395
3396Shared libraries:
33976 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3398 :libload internal-name libname
3399 :libunload internal-name
3400 :liblist
3401 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3402 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3403 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
34046 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3405
3406
3407Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000034089 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3409 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3410 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3411 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3412 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034138 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3414 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3415 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003416 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003417 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034188 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3419 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3420 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003421 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3422 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3423 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034247 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3425 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3426 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034278 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34288 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3429 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034307 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3431 window for each tag.
34327 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34337 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3434 bottom" search message.
34357 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3436 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3437 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003438- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3439- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003440- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3441 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3442 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034437 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3444 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3445 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3446 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34477 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3448 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3449 :tagargs clear
3450 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3451 matching).
34527 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3453 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3454 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3455 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34567 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3457 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34587 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3459 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3460 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003461
3462
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003463Win32 GUI:
34648 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3465 the message and input?
34667 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3467 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3468 dynamically?
34697 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3470 (Mike McCollister)
34718 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3472 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3473 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3474 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3475 common part of the path.
34768 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34778 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3478 gettext and menus work.
34798 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3480 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003481 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003482 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34838 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3484 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34858 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3486 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34877 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3488 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34897 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34907 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34917 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3492 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3493 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3494 prompts.
34957 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3496 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3497 the file added into an already running Vim.
34987 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3499 functions to find the window title.
3500
3501
3502GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035038 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003504- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3505 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
35067 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
35078 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
35086 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
35098 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3510 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35119 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35127 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35138 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3514 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35158 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3516 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3517 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35188 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3519 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35208 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3521 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3522 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3523 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035247 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35258 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3526 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035277 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3528 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3529 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035308 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35318 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003532 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035338 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35348 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35358 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3536 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3537 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35387 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3539 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3540 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35417 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3542 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35437 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3544 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3545 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3546 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35477 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3548 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35497 Should support multi-column menus.
3550- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3551 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3552- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35538 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35546 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3555 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35567 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35577 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3558 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3559 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35607 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35618 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3562 name can be chosen free.
35637 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3564 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35656 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3566 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3567 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3568 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3569 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3570 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3571 things.
35727 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3573 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035747 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003575 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003576- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3577 where it was started from?
35787 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3579
3580
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003581Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035829 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3583 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003584- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035858 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3586 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3587 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3588 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35898 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3590 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035917 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3592 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3593 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3594 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035957 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035968 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3597 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035988 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3599 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3600 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036017 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3602 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3603 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036048 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3605 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3606 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036077 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3608 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036098 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3610 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036126 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3613 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036147 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036157 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003616 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3617 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3618 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036195 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3620 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3621 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36227 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3623 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3624 file.
36258 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3626 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3627 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003628- Add events to autocommands:
3629 Error - When an error happens
3630 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003631 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003632 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3633 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003635 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003636 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3637 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003638 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003639 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003640 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3642 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3643 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3644 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003646 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3647 the char.
3648 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3649 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3650 file from CVS).
3651 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3652 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3653 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3654 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3655 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3656 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003657 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3658 changes.
3659 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3660 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003661- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003662 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003663 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003664 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3665 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3666 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3667 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3668 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3669
3670
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003671Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003672- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3673 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003674- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3675 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3676 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3677 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3678 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003679- Ideas from others:
3680 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3681 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3682 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3683 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3684 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3685 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3686 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3687 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3688 Uses Perl for C++.
3689 Uses ctags to find the info:
3690 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3691 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3692 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3693 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3694 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3695 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003696 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003697 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3698- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3699
3700
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003702- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000037037 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3704 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037057 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3706 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3707 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3709 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
37109 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3711 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3712 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037138 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3714 - ignore/match case
3715 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037168 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3717 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3718 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3719 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3720 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3721 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037237 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3724 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037258 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3726 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3727 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3728 Should work for C++ and Java.
3729 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37307 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37317 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3732 instead of words.
37338 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37348 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3735 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37368 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3737 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003738- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3739 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003740- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3741 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3742 wildcards in the file name)?
3743- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3744- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3745- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3746 be in another file).
3747- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3748- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3749- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3750 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3751- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3752- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3753- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3755
3756
3757Command line editing:
37587 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3759 line.
37608 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3761 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3762 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3763- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3764 lines wraps to start of line).
3765- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3766 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3767 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3768 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3769 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3770 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3771 cmdwin does now already.
3772 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3773 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3774 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3775 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3776 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3777 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3778 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3779 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3780 Problems:
3781 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3782 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3783 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3784 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3785 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3786 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3787 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3788 character in first column?
3789 - Implementation ideas:
3790 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3791 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3792 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3793 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3794 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3795 Mode.
3796
3797
3798Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037998 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038008 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
38018 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3802 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
38038 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3804 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038058 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3806 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038077 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3808 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003809- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3810- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3811 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038128 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3813 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38147 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3815 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3816- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3817 identifiers (Webb).
38188 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3819 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38207 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3821 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3822- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3823 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3824- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3825 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3826 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003827
3828
3829Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038309 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3831 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3832 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003833- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3834 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3835 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3836 completely resulted from one mapping.
3837- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3838 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3839
3840
3841Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038429 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3843 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3844 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038458 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3846 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3847 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3848 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3849 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038508 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3851 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3852 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038537 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3854 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003855- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038569 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038577 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3858 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3859- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3860 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3861 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3862 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3863 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3864 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3865- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3866 Normal mode.
3867- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3868 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3869 are used.
3870- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3871- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3872- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3873
3874
3875'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038769 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3877 char * veryLongName =
3878 "very long string"
3879 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038808 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038818 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3882 long_type foo =
3883 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038848 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3885 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003886 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038878 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3888 func(
3889 new String[] {
3890 "asdf",
3891 "asdf"
3892 }
3893 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038948 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3895 (Chow Loong Jin)
3896 namespace {
3897 int
3898 func(int arg) {
3899 }
3900 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039016 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3902 func( arg1
3903 , arg2
3904 , arg3
3905 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000039067 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003907 func(
3908 int x) // indent like "(4"
3909 {
3910 if (a
3911 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039129 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3913 if (a)
3914 {
3915 if (b)
3916 {
3917 // {
3918 }
3919 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003920 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3921 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3922 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003923- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003924 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39257 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3926- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3927 line).
3928- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3929- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3930 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39317 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3932- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3933 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3934- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3935 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3936- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3937- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3938 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39398 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3940 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3941 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3942- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3943- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3944 lines start with "\item".
3945- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3946 /* here is a comment that
3947 is just autoindented, and
3948 nothing else */
3949- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39507 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3951 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3952 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003953 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3954 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003955
3956
3957Java:
39588 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3959 Odendahl?
39608 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3961 "[i" commands and friends.
3962- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3963 (Jason)
3964- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3965 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3966
3967
3968'comments':
39698 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3970 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3971 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3972 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003973 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3974 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039757 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3976 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39777 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39786 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3979 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3980 regexp is used.
39818 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3982 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3983
3984
3985Virtual edit:
39868 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039877 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3988
3989
3990Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039918 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039928 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039938 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003994 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039958 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3996 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003997 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3998 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039998 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040007 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4001 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040028 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4003 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040048 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4005 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4006 the end of the line or before a ".".
40077 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4008 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
40097 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4010 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040116 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40125 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4013 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4014 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4015 cursor is on.
4016
4017
4018Select mode:
40198 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4020 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40217 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4022 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40237 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4024 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4025 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4026 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4027 normal_cmd().
4028 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4029 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4030
4031
4032Visual mode:
4033- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4034 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4035 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004036- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4037 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4038 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040398 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004040 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004041 where needed.
40427 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4043 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40447 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4045 of each selected line.
40468 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40478 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4048 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4049 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40508 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4051 Ben Godfrey)
40527 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4053 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40547 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4055 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40567 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4057 Young is working on this)
40587 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004059 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004060 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40618 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4062 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40637 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4064 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4065 option!
40667 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4067 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4068 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4069 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4070 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4071 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4072 without changing the column.
40736 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040747 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4075 current buffer.
40767 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40776 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4078 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40796 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040806 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004081 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004082 or other special character.
40836 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4084
4085
4086More advanced repeating commands:
4087- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040887 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004089 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004090- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004091- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004092 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4093 "y." will repeat last yank.
4094 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4095 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4096 and/or pick an older command.
4097- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4098
4099
4100Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041018 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4102 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4103 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
41048 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
41057 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4106 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041078 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4108 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
41098 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000041107 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041118 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4112 entering search strings.
41138 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4114 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4115 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041168 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4117 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041188 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4119 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4120 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41217 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041227 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4123 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041246 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4125 abbreviations are to be used.
4126- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4127 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4128 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004129- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4130 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4131 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4132 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4133 Or implicit:
4134 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4136 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4137 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004138- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4139 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4140- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4141 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41426 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4143 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4144 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4145 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004146- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4147 non-replace Insert mode?
4148- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004149- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4150- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4151 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4152- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004153 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004154- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4155 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4156- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4157- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4158 ":freekeys".
4159- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4160
4161
4162Incsearch:
4163- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4164- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4165 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4166 up every time.
4167- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4168 folds when going to another line.
4169- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4170 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4171 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4172 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4173- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4174 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4175
4176
4177Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041788 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004179 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004180 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004181 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004182 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041839 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4184 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041858 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4186 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041878 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4188 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4189 Perl does it this way:
4190 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4191 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4192 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4193 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041948 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4195 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4196 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041978 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4198 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4199 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000042007 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4201 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042028 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4203 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042047 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4206 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4207 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
42087 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4209 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042107 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004211 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042127 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4213 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4215 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42168 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4217 line.
42187 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4219 example.
42208 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4221 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4222- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4223 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4224 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4225 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42268 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42278 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4228 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4229 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42307 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4231 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042327 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4233 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4235 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042368 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4237 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042388 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4239 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4240 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4241 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004242- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4243 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4245 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4246- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4247 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4248 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4249 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042508 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4251 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004252- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4253 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042548 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4255 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4256 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004257- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4258 i ignore case
4259 I use case
4260 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4261 v use Vi regexp syntax
4262 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4263 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4264 Perl uses these too:
4265 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4266 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4267 o compile only once (Perl only)
4268 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4269 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4270 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4271 following command.
4272 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4273- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4274 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4275 for search string)?
42767 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4277 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4278- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4279 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4280- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4281 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4282- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4283- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004284 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004285 a for the next file in the argument list
4286 f for file in the buffer list
4287 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004288 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4289 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004290 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4291 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4292- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042937 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004294 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042957 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4296 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4297 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4298 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42996 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4300 effects.
43017 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4302 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4303 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000043047 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004305 Also ":dselect".
4306
4307
4308Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043099 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4310 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043118 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4312 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4313 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43148 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4315 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043168 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4317 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4318 timestamp?
4319 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4320 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043218 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4322 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4323 was changed outside of Vim.
4324 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4325 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004326 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4327 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004328- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4329 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004330- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4331 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4332 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43338 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4334 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4335 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4336 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43378 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4338 only remember the lines that really changed.
43397 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4340 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4341 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4342 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004343- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4344 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4345- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4346 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4347- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4348 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4349 [-99].
4350- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4351- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004352- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4353 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4354
4355
4356Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043577 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4358 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4359 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4360 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43618 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4362 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43638 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4364 inode too.
43657 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004366 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4367 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043687 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4369 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4370- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4371 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4372- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4373 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43747 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4375 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43767 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4377 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43788 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043798 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004380 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43817 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4382 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043838 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4384 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4385 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004386
4387
4388Swap (.swp) files:
43898 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4390 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4391 there are short file name problems.
43928 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4393 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43948 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43958 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004396 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004397 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4398 file the same as the actual file?
4399 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044007 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4401 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
44027 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004403 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004404 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4405 enough room.
44067 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4407 or /var/preserve.
4408- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4409 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4410- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4411 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4412- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4413 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4414 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4415 cached list of which line is where.
4416
4417
4418Viminfo:
44197 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4420 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4421 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044228 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4423 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4424 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044258 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4426 name. (Schild)
44278 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44288 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044298 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044308 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4431 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4432 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4433 this?
44347 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44357 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4436 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44376 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4438 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4439 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4440- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4441 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4442
4443
4444Modelines:
44458 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4446 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4447 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004448- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4449 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4450 'shiftwidth'.
4451- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4452 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4454 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4455 modeline setting.
4456- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4457 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4458- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4459 .cpp files.
4460- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4461 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4462- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4463 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4464
4465
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004466Sessions:
44678 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4468 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44697 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4470 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044718 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4472 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044738 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4474 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4475 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044767 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4477 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044787 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004479
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004480
4481Options:
44827 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4483 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044848 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4485 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4486 also be supported.
44878 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4488 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4489 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44907 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44917 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4492 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004493
4494
4495External commands:
44968 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4497 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44984 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4499 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4500 -f).
45014 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
45024 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4503 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
45044 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4505
4506
4507Multiple Windows:
45087 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
45098 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4510 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45117 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4512 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4513 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045147 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4515 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045167 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4517 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045186 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4519 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004520 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004521 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45227 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4523 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4524 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4525 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4526- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4527 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4528 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4529 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4530
4531
4532Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045338 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045348 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4535 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045368 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 +000045378 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4538 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45398 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4540 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4541 the mark was set.
45427 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4543 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4544 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4545 ":browse marks"?
45466 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045477 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4548 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45497 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4550 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45517 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4552 command).
45537 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4554 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4555 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4556 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45575 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4558 mappings.
45596 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4560 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4561 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4562
4563
4564Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045657 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004566 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004567- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4568 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045698 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045707 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4571 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4572
4573
4574Writing files:
4575- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4576 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4577 shortname conversion.
45788 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45798 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4580 file.
45818 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4582 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4583 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045846 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4585 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45866 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4587 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45886 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4589 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045908 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004591 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45927 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4593 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45947 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4595 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4596 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4597 waiting for a character to be typed).
45988 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4599 line of the window, like "[time]".
4600 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4601 Automatic and/or with a command.
4602
4603
4604Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000046058 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4606 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046078 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004608 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4609- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4610- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46118 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4612 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004613- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004614 :s///N substitutes N times.
4615- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4616 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4617 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46187 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4619 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4620 last line column 5.
46215 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4622 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4623 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4624 (Stanislav Sitar)
4625
4626
4627Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046288 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46297 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46308 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4631 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4632 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004633- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4634- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4635 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4636- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4637- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4638
4639
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004640Argument list:
46416 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4642 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4643 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46446 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4645
4646
4647Registers:
46488 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46498 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4650 around in windows.
46518 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4652 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4653 for every line.
46546 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4655 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4656 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4657- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4658 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4659- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4660 leader when line wraps?
4661- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4662 line in the range.
4663- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4664 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46658 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4666 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004667
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004668
4669Debug mode:
46707 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46718 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046728 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046737 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004674 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4675 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4676 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046777 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46787 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4679
4680
4681Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046829 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4683 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046847 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4685 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4686 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4687 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4688 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4689 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4690 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004691 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046927 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4693 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046947 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4695 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046968 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4697 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046987 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4699 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4700 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004701- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004702 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047037 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4704 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047057 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4706 window as a buffer-tab selection.
47078 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047086 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
47097 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4710 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4711 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004712 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4713 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047147 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4715 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47168 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4717 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047186 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047198 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4720 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4721 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4722 in this Vim.
47238 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004724 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047258 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4726 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4727 have it apply to the following command.
47288 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4729 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4730 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4731 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047327 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4733 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047347 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4735 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4736 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4737 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047386 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47398 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47409 Support ACLs on more systems.
47417 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4742 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047437 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4744 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4745 (truncated to fit in the space).
47467 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47478 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47488 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4749 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047507 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47527 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4753 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047547 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047557 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47567 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047578 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47588 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4759 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4760 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4761 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47628 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47636 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4764 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004765 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047668 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047678 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4768 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4769 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4770 does something like this. (Shah)
47717 Use growarray for replace stack.
47727 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4773 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47743 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047757 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4776 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047777 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4778 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004779- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4780- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4781- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4782- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47837 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4784 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4785- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4786 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004787- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004788- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4789 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4790- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4791 call "play newbeep.au").
4792- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4793 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4794 (Bhatt).
4795- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4796 blockwise registers).
4797- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4798 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4799- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4800 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4801 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4802 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004803- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048047 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4805 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4806- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4807 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4808 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4809 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4810 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048118 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4812 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048138 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4814 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4815 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4816 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4817 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4818- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004819- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048207 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4821 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4822- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4823 not in column 1.
48246 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4825 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48267 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4827- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004828- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004829 :redir #> bufname
4830 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004831- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4832 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004833- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4834 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4835 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48366 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4837 console? (Klaus Hast)
4838- Add :delcr command:
4839 *:delcr*
4840 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4841 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4842 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4843 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4844 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4845 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4846- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4847- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4848 characters from 'isprint'.
4849- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4850- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4851 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4852- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4853 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4854 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4855- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4856- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4857 Nvi).
4858- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4859 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48607 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4861- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4862 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48636 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4864- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4865 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4866 macro).
4867- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004868- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4869 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4870- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48718 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004872- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4873- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4874- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4875 if it is not the first or last window.
4876- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4877 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48787 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4879 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4880 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4881- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4882- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004883 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004884 many percent down the windows).
4885- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4886 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4887 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4888- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4889 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4890- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4891 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4892- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4893- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4894- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4895 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048968 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4897 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4898 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4899 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4900 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004901- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4902 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4903- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004904 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4905- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004906 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4907 (Webb).
4908- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004909 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004910- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4911 hex codes like 0xff).
4912- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4913 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4914 the last TYPED command.
4915- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4916- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4917- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4918 should also work?
4919- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49208 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4921 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4922 name.
4923- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4924 trailing '.'.
4925- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4926 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4927 find_file_in_path().
4928- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4929 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4930- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4931- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4932 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4933- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004934 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004935- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4936 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4937 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004938- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4940- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4941- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4942- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4943 to the minimal size.
4944- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4945- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4946- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4947- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4948- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004949- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4950 entered)?
4951- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4952 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004953- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004954- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4955- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4956- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4957- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4958- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4959 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004960- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049618 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4962 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4963 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4964 or in octal.
49657 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4966 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004967- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004968 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4969- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4970- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4971 insert line command).
4972- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4973- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4974- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4975- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4976- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4977 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004978- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004979 yet.
4980- Implement 'redraw' option.
4981- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4982 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049837 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4984 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004985 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4986 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049878 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4988 do it.
4989- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4990- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4991 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4992- Add text justification option.
4993- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4994- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4995 off".
4996- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4997- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4998- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004999 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005001- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005002- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5003- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5004 commands.
5005- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5006- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5007- :table command (Webb)
5008- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005009- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5010- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5011- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5012- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5013- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5014 (Demirel).
5015- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5016- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5017 for use in macro's and the like.
5018- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005019 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005020- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005021 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005022- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005023 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005024 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5025- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5026 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005027- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005028 mkopttab to make option table?
5029- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5030 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5031- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5032 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005033- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005034 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5035- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5036 cursor?
5037- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5038- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50395 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5040 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050418 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5042 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5043 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5044 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5045 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050468 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5047 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5048 (Netherton)
50496 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5050 space after "(", for example.
50515 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5052 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5053 (Servatius Brandt)
5054
5055
5056From Elvis:
5057- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5058- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005059- Search patterns:
5060 \@ match word under cursor.
5061 but do:
5062 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5063 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50648 ":window" command:
5065 :win + next window (up)
5066 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5067 :win - previous window (down)
5068 :win -- idem, wrapping
5069 :win nr to window number "nr"
5070 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50717 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5072 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5073
5074
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005075From xvi:
5076- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5077- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5078
5079
5080From vile:
5081- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5082- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5083 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5084
5085
5086Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005087- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5088 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5089 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5090 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5091 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005092- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5093 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5094- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5095 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5096 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5097 current layout mirrored.
5098- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5099- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5100 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5101- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5102- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5103 font in each top-level window.
5104- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5105- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5106- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5107- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5108 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5109- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5110 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5111 mentioned in the tags file.
5112 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5113 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5114- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5115 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5116- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5117 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51184 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5119 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5120 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5121 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005122 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005123 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5124 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5125- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5126 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5127 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5128
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005129When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5130empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005131
5132vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5133vim: set fo+=n :