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Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Sep 19
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020041Add test for state().
42Add test for using SafeState and SafeStateAgain autocommand.
43Then plugin can:
44- When callback is invoked and state() returns non-empty, add to work queue
45- When SafeState autocommand event triggers, process work queue
46
47Fix for "x" should be done by fixing "dl" ? 8.1.2052
48
49'completeopt' "popup" variant that uses a callback after the popup has been
50created, so the contents can be changed. Make it hidden, callback
51or later has to make it visible. #4924 Setting the buffer contents later
52doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +020053
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020054Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020055- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020056- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020057- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020058 Happens in Test_simple_popup() at the second screendump.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020059- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020060- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020061 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
62- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
63 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020064- Figure out the size and position better.
65 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
66 if wrapping inserts indent
67- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
68 incomplete cell.
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020069
70Text properties: See comment at top of src/textprop.c.
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020071
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020072'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010073- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
74 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020075- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
76 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010077- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
78 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020079- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020080- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020081- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
82 isn't one?
83 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
84
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020085Prompt buffer:
86- Add a command line history.
87- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010088- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020089
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020090Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020091- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010092- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
93 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020094- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010095- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020096- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
97 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
98 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010099- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100100- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
101 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100102 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100103 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200104
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200105Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200106- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
107 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100108- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
109 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
110 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100111- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
112 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200113- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
114 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100115- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200116- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200117- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200118- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
119 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200120- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
121 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200122- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
123 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
124- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
125 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200126- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
127 is disabled.
128- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
129- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
130 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200131- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
132 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
133 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
134- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
135- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
136 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
137- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
138 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200139
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200140Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200141E278, E279, E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
142E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
143E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200144
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200145Improve running tests on MS-Windows: #4922
146
147Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
148Ready to include now?
149
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200150Remove check for cmd_silent when calling search_stat()? (Gary Johnson)
151
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200152undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
153
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200154Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
155
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200156Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200157
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200158Patch for #4733: #4734. Test needs improvements.
159
160Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
16120)
162Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
163remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
164
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200165Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
166Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
167terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
168Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
169(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200170
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200171Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
172Ready to include now?
173
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100174Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
175(#4087)
176
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200177":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
178goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
179unlisted. (#4478)
180
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200181Patch to fix using zero sc_sid. (#4877)
182
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200183Make 'showbreak' global-local.
184
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200185The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
186support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
187
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200188Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
189(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
190
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200191When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
192default one. #4698
193
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200194Patch from Namsh to allow building with both XIM and hangulin. (2019 Aug 29)
195
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200196When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
197with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
198
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200199Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200200Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200201
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200202Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
203Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
204New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
205
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200206Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
207fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
208
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200209Patch to add interrupt(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #2834)
210
211Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
212-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
213
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200214Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
215- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
216- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200217
218Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
21913, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200220
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200221Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200222
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200223Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
224
225Patch to sort buffers on b_last_used time. (Andy Massimino, #4722)
226Needs a test.
227
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100228Errors found with random data:
229 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100230
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200231Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
232files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
233Include part of #3242?
234
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200235When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
236it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
237
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200238Patch for Inno Setup: #2739
239
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200240Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
241t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
242
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100243Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
244Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
245
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200246'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
247
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200248"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
249(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
250
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100251Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
252
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200253The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
254Give a few examples. (#4288)
255
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200256Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
257work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
258
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100259Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
260read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
261be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
262
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200263":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
264
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200265Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
266(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
267
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200268Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
269
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200270Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
271
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200272Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
273https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
274
275Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
276http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
277http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
278Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
279- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
280- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
281- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
282 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
283- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
284- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
285Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
286- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
287- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
288Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
289- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
290
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100291Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
292Mar 5)
293
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200294Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
295- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
296 line.
297- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
298 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
299- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
300 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
301
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200302Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
303on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
304
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200305Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
306in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
307buffer didn't change at all.
308
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200309Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
310register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
311(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
312
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200313Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
314(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
315
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200316Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
317":let buf = bufcreate('name')
318
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200319Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
320'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
321(#4450)
322
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100323When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
324But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
325similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
326
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200327C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
328(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
329
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100330Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
331"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
332
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100333Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
334added?
335
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200336Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
337maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
338
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200339Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
340negative. (see #4326)
341
342'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
343`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
344tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
345:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
346
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200347This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
348 vim: syn=nosyntax
349
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200350":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
351a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
352
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100353Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
354#2948. (related to #1512?)
355On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
356balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
35720, #2481)
358Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
359Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
360balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
3612018 Sep 14)
362Another request: #3811.
363
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200364More warnings from static analysis:
365https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200366
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100367Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
368
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200369Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
370
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200371Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
372internals of the dict structure.
373
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200374Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
375manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
376Athena is OK.
377Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100378
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100379nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
380
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200381Missing tests for:
382- add_termcap_entry()
383
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200384Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
385change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
386them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
387
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100388When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
389Cursor should not move. (#4024)
390
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100391Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
392Also run all tests with C locale?
393
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100394"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
395#3927
396
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200397Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200398Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200399
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100400When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
401case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
402For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
403
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200404Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
405(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
406expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200407
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200408Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
409 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
410 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
411
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100412Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100413punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100414
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200415ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
416
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200417Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
418":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
419#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
420Updated 2019 May 25.
421
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200422Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
423drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
424
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200425Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
426is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
427
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100428When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
429scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
430using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
431
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200432Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
433#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
434(Sep 8)
435
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200436Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
437unified diff (list of lines).
438
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100439When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
440kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
441when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
442
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100443Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
444(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100445
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100446Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
447
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200448Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200449Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200450memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200451Memory leak in test_terminal:
452==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
453==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
454==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
455==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
456==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
457==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
458==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
459==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
460==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200461TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100462Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200463Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
464Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200465
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200466gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200467
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200468matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
46919.
470
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100471Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
472Probably window.
473Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
474highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200475And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
476'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100477
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100478Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
479Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
480
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200481Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
482Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
483Not ready to include.
484
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200485Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
486Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
487Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
488
489Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
490
491Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
492screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
493
494Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
495 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
496 Not ready to include.
497
498Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
499Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
500
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200501home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
502
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200503When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
504terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
505How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
506
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200507Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
508
509Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
510(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
511
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100512Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
513Feedback from someone who uses this?
514
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200515ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
516
517Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
518Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
519values.
520
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100521Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200522- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
523- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
524- omit diff.exe from distribution
525- Can we make this show differences within a line?
526- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200527
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200528Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
529
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100530Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
531What is the practical use for this?
532
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200533When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
534includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
535
536Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100537Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200538
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200539MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
540(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
541
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100542Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
543
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200544Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
545
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200546Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
547when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
548
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100549Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
550mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
551
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200552Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
553
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200554Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
555modified buffers
556 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
557 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
558 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
559 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
560
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100561Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
562- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
563- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
564- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100565- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
566
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200567Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
568characters. (#3246)
569
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200570'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
571
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100572Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
573Oct 28)
574
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200575ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
576Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
577Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
578Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
579
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100580Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
581- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
582
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200583Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
584- Test_setbufvar_options()
585- Test_exit_callback_interval()
586
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200587Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
588Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100589Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
590Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200591
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200592Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
593
594Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
59524)
596
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100597Try out background make plugin:
598 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
599or asyncmake:
600 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
601
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100602Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100603mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100604
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200605Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
606is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
607used for git temp files.
608
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100609Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
610
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200611Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
612#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
613
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200614Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
615behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
616(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
617
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200618Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
619pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
620
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200621Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
622script or function.
623
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200624Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
625Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
626
627When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
628E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
629does nothing otherwise?
630
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200631MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
632If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
633(wait a little while).
634CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100635
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200636Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
637MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6382017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
639receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
640
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200641Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
642missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
643
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200644":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
645deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
646
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200647Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200648
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100649Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200650Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
651
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200652With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
653included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
654(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
655
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200656Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200657Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200658
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100659Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100660Jan 15, #2555)
661
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200662":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
663
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200664Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
665It's an awful lot of code for something that is just a bit nicer syntax.
666
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100667Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
668
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100669No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
670No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
671
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200672Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
673http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
674Should be supported with a flag.
675
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100676Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
677confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
678
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100679Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
680
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100681Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
682Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
683applying the diff, etc.
684
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200685Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
686Apr 26, #2849)
687
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100688User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
689word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100690
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100691Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200692
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200693With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
694(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
695
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200696Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
697:drop (remote commands).
698
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200699Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
7002018 Jun 18, #3027)
701
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200702Implement option_save() and option_restore():
703option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
704 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
705 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
706 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
707 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
708 be called when the same window is the current window.
709 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
710 the local options won't be restored.
711
712option_save({list}) *option_save()*
713 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
714 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
715 let s:saved_options = option_save([
716 \ 'ignorecase',
717 \ 'iskeyword',
718 \ ])
719 au <buffer> BufLeave *
720 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
721< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
722 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
723 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
724 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100725 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
726 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
727 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100728 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200729
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100730"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
731directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
732Also see #1689.
733
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100734crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
73517, #2652)
736
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100737When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100738highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100739
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200740":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
741
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100742No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
7432017 Dec 26, #2501)
744
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200745A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
746
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200747Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
748
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200749A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
750Mention where they were defined somewhere.
751
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100752Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
753(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
754
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200755ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
756
757Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
758
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100759Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
760Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
761
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100762Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
763in #846)
764Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
765
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200766Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
767Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
768
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100769When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
770redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200771
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100772In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
773(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
774
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100775Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
776neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100777
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100778Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
779Nov 21)
780
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200781When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
782triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
783set_color_count().
784
785Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
786responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
787
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100788When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
789CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
790Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
791always nested.
792
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200793matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
794
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100795Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
796
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100797MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100798for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
799
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200800Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100801(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200802
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200803Test runtime files.
804Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200805
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200806Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200807
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200808Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
809defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
810Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
811
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200812After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
81313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200814
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200815When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
816line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
817
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100818The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
819
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200820Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
821set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
822
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200823Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
824
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100825Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
826
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200827Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200828It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100829Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200830Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200831
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200832Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
833behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
834
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100835'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
836
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200837The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
838
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100839When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
840a command can delete it.
841
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200842Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
843#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
844
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100845The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
846for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
847
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200848X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
849pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
850clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
851Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
852Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
853clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200854Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200855
856Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
857
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200858Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
859attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
860that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
861
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200862Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
863(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
864
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100865Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
866buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
867Also fixes #2166?
868
869Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
870
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200871Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
872stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
873
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100874Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
875possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
876
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200877When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
878case of :bwipe followed by :new.
879
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200880Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
881existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
882Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
883
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200884Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200885
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200886MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
887Jul 4)
888
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200889Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
890Drucker, 2017 May 8).
891This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
892Christian cannot reproduce it.
893
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200894Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
895wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
896Or is this not an actual problem?
897
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200898Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
899
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200900Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
901
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200902Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
903
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200904'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
905#1736)
906
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200907Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9088, #1690)
909
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200910Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
911(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
912
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200913Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
914it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
915
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200916Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
917Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
918How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
919
920Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
921(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
922
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100923Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
924
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200925assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
926it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
927
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200928New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
929
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100930Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
931for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200932
933Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
934(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
935Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
936later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
937Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
938mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200939Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
940mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200941maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200942
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100943Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200944plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
945be defined when the plugin is loaded.
946
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100947Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
948 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
949 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100950
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200951json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200952What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100953
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200954Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
955
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200956import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
957(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
958
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100959When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
960buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
961Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100962
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200963Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
964Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100965Another example in #1309
966
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100967When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
968when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
969
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100970Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
971#1330)
972
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200973Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
974
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100975Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
976
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100977GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
978g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
979timer expires.
980
981Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
982
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100983Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
984highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
985
9868 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
987 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
988
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100989Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
990Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
991
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200992Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
993key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
994 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
995 echo keytrans(xx)
996 <C-Home>
997
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100998Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
999(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1000Make a function to check for function-like type?
1001
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001002Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1003(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1004
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001005Implement optional arguments for functions.
1006 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1007 call Foo(12)
1008 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1009 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001010
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001011Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1012somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1013
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001014Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1015(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1016
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001017Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001018Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001019Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001020
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001021The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1022"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1023Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1024
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001025Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1026
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001027Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1028about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001029Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1030
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001031Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1032#1053) With patch, does it work?
1033
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001034":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001035vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1036
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001037Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001038E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001039Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001040
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001041Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1042Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1043
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001044Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001045Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001046
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001047"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1048(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1049
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001050Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1051(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001052Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001053
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001054'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1055
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001056Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1057
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001058When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1059Apr 23, #1653)
1060
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001061Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1062anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1063
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001064Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001065E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001066
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001067Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1068(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1069
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001070Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1071
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001072Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
1073
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001074Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
1075
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001076On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1077separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1078
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001079min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1080contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1081
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001082Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1083
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001084Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1085
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001086Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1087
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001088Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1089no longer support.
1090
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001091sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10924#1038)
1093
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001094+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001095- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001096- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1097 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001098- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1099- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1100 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1101- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1102 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1103- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001104- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1105 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001106- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1107- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1108 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1109 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1110- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1111- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1112- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1113 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1114 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1115- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1116 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1117- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1118 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1119 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1120
1121Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001122- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1123 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1124 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1125 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001126- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1127 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001128- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1129 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1130- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1131 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1132- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1133 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1134 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1135 LC_CTYPE
1136- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1137 matches everywhere.
1138- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1139 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1140- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1141- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1142 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1143- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1144- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1145 2013 Dec 11)
1146- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1147 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1148- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1149- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1150 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1151- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1152- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1153- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1154- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1155 2015 Feb 7)
1156- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1157 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1158 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1159 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1160 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1161- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1162- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1163- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1164- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1165 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1166 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1167 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1168- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1169 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1170- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1171 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1172 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1173 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1174
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001175Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1176
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001177Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1178#1350)
1179
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001180Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11813. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1182Also see #1635.
1183
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001184Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001185Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1186use the current behavior.
1187Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001188
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001189When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1190command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1191
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001192Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1193change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001194patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1195(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001196
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001197Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1198doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1199Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001200Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001201E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1202
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001203execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001204#1141)
1205
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001206cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1207
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001208:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1209
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001210Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1211
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001212When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1213synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1214
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001215Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1216Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001217
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001218Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1219(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1220
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1222Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001223
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001224Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1225
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001226Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001227(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001228
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001229Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1230Jul 25, #948)
1231
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001232Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1233names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1234Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1235the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1236
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001237Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1238(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1239Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1240
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001241'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1242
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001243MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1244Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001245
1246Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1247Also for ":@.".
1248
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001249Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1250
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001251Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1252#1125
1253
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001254Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1255times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1256
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001257Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1258
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001259Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1260
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001261Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1262
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001263Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1264
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001265We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1266the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1267
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001268Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1269
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001270When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1271emoji_width table has only one entry.
1272
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001273It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1274Reject the value? #710.
1275
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001276When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1277Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1278
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001279Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001280Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001281
1282Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001283
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001284Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1285No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001286
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001287Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1288(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001289
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001290Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1291
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001292Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1293https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1294Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1295
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001296Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1297but the reference remains valid.
1298
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001299Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001300interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1301Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1302interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1303result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001304
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001305Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001306work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001307
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001308Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1309
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001310Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1311
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001312Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1313Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1314
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001315When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1316Apr 17) #762
1317
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001318exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1319Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1320
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001321Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1322'iskeyword' for syntax.
1323
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001324Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1325(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1326
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001327Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1328
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001329When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1330maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001331Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001332
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001333Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1334It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1335Add configure check?
1336Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1337Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1338Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1339
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001340Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1341Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1342
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001343Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1344Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1345Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1346
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001347Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1348Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1349
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001350":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1351directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1352
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001353In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1354(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1355
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001356If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13572016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001358
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001359Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1360(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1361
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001362Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001363Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001364
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001365Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1366
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001367When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1368restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1369Do not trigger the event?
1370
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001371Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1372changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1373and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001374Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1375Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13766, 2nd message)
1377Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001378
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001379Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1380Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1381https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1382
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001383Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1384With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1385
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001386Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001387
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001388Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1389
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001390Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001391Only remembers one error.
1392
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001393GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001394
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001395Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1396(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001397
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001398Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1399github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001400 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001401Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001402
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001403Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001404
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001405Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001406comparing individual items.
1407Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1408Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1409Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1410equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1411
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001412Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1413
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001414MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1415wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1416
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001417Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1418specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1419
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001420Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1421(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1422
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001423Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001424inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001425
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001426Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1427(Luchr, #277)
1428
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001429Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001430'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1431before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001432
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001433C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1434and also line continuation after #include.
1435I can't recommend it though.
1436
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001437Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1438(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1439
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001440To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1441library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1442
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001443When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1444is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1445
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001446Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
144730)
1448
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001449MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1450(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1451
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001452The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
145324): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001454
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001455":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1456effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1457
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001458":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14599)
1460
1461The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1462wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1463
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001464Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001465Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001466
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001467When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1468the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1469
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001470Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001471slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1472inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1473
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001474ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14752014 Sep 11)
1476
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001477Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1478(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1479
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001480When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1481'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1482
1483Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001484(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001485Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1486- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1487 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1488 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1489- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1490 covered by the above change.
1491So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001492same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001493Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001494
1495Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1496Work in progress.
1497
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001498Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1499when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1500
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001501Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1502Is this right?
1503
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001504Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1505(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1506Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1507
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001508Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1509Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001510
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001511Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1512Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1513
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001514Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1515
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001516When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1517filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1518initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1519
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001520Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1521
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001522Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1523OK to not block marks?
1524
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001525Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1526
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001527Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1528
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001529When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1530(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1531
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001532Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001533
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001534Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1535(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1536
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001537When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1538any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1539
1540Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001541
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001542Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001543
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001544Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1545(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1546
1547Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1548
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001549Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1550Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1551was already defined.
1552(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1553
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001554Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1555
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001556Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001557Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001558Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001559Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001560
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001561Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1562(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1563
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001564Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1565(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1566
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001567Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1568
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001569When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1570these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1571window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1572
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001573Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1574should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1575history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1576Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1577
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001578"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1579Jun 8)
1580
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001581Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1582insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1583
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001584No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1585
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001586Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1587(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1588Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1589arguments.
1590
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001591Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1592
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001593Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001594
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001595Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15960x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1597New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1598compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1599
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001600Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1601a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1602
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001603xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1604buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1605Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001606Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001607Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001608Also see issue #609.
1609We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001610
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001611Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1612right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001613its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001614
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001615Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1616
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001617This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1618 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1619This neither: (ZyX)
1620 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1621
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001622'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1623Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1624from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001625
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001626Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16272014 Jun 8)
1628
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001629Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001630Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001631Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1632Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1633User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001634- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1635 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1636 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001637- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1638- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1639 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1640 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1641 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1642 on vim.org.
1643- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1644 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1645- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1646- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1647- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1648- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1649Implementation:
1650- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1651 plugin separate.
1652- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1653 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1654 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1655- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1656 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1657- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1658 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1659 installing.
1660Out of scope:
1661- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1662- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1663 useful).
1664
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001665Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1666normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001667
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001668When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1669menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1670
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001671Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1672(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1673
1674":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1675various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001676
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001677Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001678(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1679
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001680VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1681instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1682
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001683Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001684Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001685
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001686Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001687command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001688
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001689Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1690
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001691Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1692highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001693
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001694The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1695For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1696
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001697Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001698possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001699
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001700Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001701
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001702Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1703
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017047 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1705 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1706 "lucida_console:h8").
1707Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1708
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001709:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1710
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001711Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1712
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001713Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1714
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001715When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1716(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1717
1718Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001719Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001720
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001721GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1722(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1723
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001724Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1725registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1726
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001727Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1728
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001729The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1730(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1731Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1732
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001733The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1734- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1735- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1736
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001737Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1738Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1739reliably?
1740
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001741Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1742(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1743
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001744Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1745(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1746
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001747Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17482013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001749
1750Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1751
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001752Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17535)
1754
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001755Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1756carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1757
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001758Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1759highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1760
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001761Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001762
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001763Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200176428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001765
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001766Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1767
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001768Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1769
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001770- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1771 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1772Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001773
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001774Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001775
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001776In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1777process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1778a reboot.
1779
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001780patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1781
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001782Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1783not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001784
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001785Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1786Or use expand('<sid>')?
1787
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001788Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1789
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001790Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1791
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001792b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17937)
1794
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001795Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1796compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1797
1798Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1799Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1800vim.bindeval().
1801
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001802Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18032012 Aug 4)
1804
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001805Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1806(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1807
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001808Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1809But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1810
1811Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1812Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1813Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001814
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001815Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1816loading all files.
1817
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001818MS-Windows resizing problems:
1819- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1820 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1821- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1822 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1823 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001824
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001825'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001826
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001827Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001828of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1829
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001830The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1831Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1832But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001833
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001834When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1835is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1836
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001837URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001838- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001839- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1840 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1841
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001842Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1843(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1844Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1845
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001846Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001847New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001848
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001849When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1850for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1851Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001852
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001853Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1854
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001855Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1856
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001857Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1858Apr 18)
1859
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001860Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1861And one for gui_x11.txt.
1862
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001863":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1864finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1865Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1866
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001867Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1868
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001869Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1870
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001871Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1872they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1873
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001874Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1875
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001876Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1877Nov 20)
1878
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001879Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001880Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001881
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001882`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001883(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1884
1885Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1886
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001887BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1888Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1889
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001890Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1891Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1892
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001893Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1894
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001895On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18962012 Jun 19)
1897
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001898'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1899'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1900Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001901Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001902
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001903With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1904(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1905need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1906
1907Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1908only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
190921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1910
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001911Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1912New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1913
1914Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1915Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1916
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001917Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1918Jan 19)
1919
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001920Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1921discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1922meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001923
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001924"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001925Oct 26)
1926
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001927Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1928
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001929With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1930register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001931
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001932Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1933
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001934When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1935(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1936
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001937When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1938then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1939from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1940
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001941Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1942":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
194315)
1944
1945Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1946
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001947BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1948cleared. See test64.
1949
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001950Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001951effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001952Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001953https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001954
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001955On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
195664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1957right type.
1958
1959string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1960(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1961
1962When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1963(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001964When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1965following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1966(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001967
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001968When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1969doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1970
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001971Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1972
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001973maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1974mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1977(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1978
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001979When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1980indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1981the help file.
1982
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001983After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1984Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1985
1986Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1987
1988"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1989
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001990Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1991
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001992Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001993
1994Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19952010 Dec 18)
1996
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001997With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1998number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1999Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2000
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002001Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2002Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2003
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020048 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2005Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2006
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002007Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2008one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2009the match scrolls into view.
2010
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020117 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2012Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2013Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2014
20159 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2016 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2017Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2018
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002019Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2020Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2021
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002022In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2023or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2024sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2025
2026GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2027doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2028
2029GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2030
2031Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2032Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2033
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002034Wish for NetBeans commands:
2035 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2036
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002037Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2038
20397.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2040there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2041do?
2042
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002043Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
204422)
2045
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002046New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2047- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002048- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002049 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2050
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002051"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20522011 Feb 27)
2053
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002054Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2055^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2056
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002057When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2058exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20599) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2060
2061g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2062the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2063
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002064Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2065crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2066
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002067Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2068number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2069
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002070Regexp engine performance:
2071- Profiling:
2072 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2073 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2074 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2075 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2076 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2077 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2078- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2079- Performance tests:
2080 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2081 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2082 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2083 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2084 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2085 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2086 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2087 'hlsearch'.
2088 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2089 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2090 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2091 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2092
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002093Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2094Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2095
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002096'beval' option should be global-local.
2097
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002098Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002099
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002100setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002101
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002102With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21032010 Oct 24)
2104
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002105Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2106
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002107When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2108Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2109
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002110":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2111
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002112'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2113
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002114C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2115checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2116Issue 46.
2117
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002118Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2119
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002120Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2121gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2122
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002123":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2124accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2125
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002126Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2127setwinvar().
2128
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002129Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002130
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002131When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2132instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2133
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002134Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2135Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2136Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002137
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002138Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2139back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2140
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002141Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002142Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2143
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002144CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2145the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2146FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2147
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002148Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2149Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2150
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002151Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2152Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2153
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002154I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2155Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2156an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002157
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002158Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2159
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002160Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2161non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162
2163iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2164Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2165or replace with a character and continue?
2166
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002167Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2168Requires configure check for localtime().
2169Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2170
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002171Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2172Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2173
2174Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2175
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002176Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2177Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2178path.
2179
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002180Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002181Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002182
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002183'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2184
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002185":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2186like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2187
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002188Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2189https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002190
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002191Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21922010 Nov 5)
2193
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002194Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002195Jan 7)
2196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002197Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2198
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002199With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2200entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2201Feb 12)
2202
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002203Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2204characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2205
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002206Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2207
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002208Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2209 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2210
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002211Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2212
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002213When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2214Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2215
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002216When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2217not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2218string value.
2219
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002220For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002221line argument -noregister.
2222
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002223When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2224missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2225
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002226When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2227doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002228
2229Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2230(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2231Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2232There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2233Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2234
2235":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2236highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2237to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2238
2239Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2240Probably needs a bit of work.
2241
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002242List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002243Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2244
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002245Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2248
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002249Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2250Sep 1)
2251
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002252Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2253
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002254Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2255on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2256
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002257Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22582009 Jul 18)
2259
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002260Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2261window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2262Needs more work.
2263
2264Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002266When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2267few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2268
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002269'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002270(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2271
2272Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2273J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2274
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002275When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2276for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2277
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002278Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002280":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2281because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2282ex_docmd.c.
2283
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002284Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2286
2287string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2288for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2289
2290Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2291
2292'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
229320)
2294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002295Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22962009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2297
2298Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2299
2300Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2301SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002303When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2304indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2305(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2306
2307Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2308are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2309Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2310Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2311that doesn't have a window.
2312
2313When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2314doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2315
2316getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2317displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2318
2319":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002321There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2322was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2323perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2324
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002325Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2328command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2329
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002330Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2331does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2332
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002333opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2334height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002335very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2338(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2339
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002340Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002341(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2342
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002343Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2344char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2345
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002346Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2347Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2348
2349This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2352messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2353es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23542009 Jan 26)
2355
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002356When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002357in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2358Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2359
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002360Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2361a modeline.
2362
2363Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2364Sergey Khorev)
2365
2366Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2367part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002368
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002369After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2370correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2371
2372Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2373(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2374
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002375shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002376'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2377Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2378unix-like shell?
2379
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002380Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2381register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2382(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2383
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002384Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2385Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2386
2387Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2388make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2389
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2391still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2392
2393"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2394(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2397that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2398ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2399Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2400
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002401MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2402doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2403probably causes this.
2404
2405'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024062009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002407
2408Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2409 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2410 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2411(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2412
2413Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2414":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2415option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2416is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002418":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2419first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002420Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002422Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2423laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2424Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2427anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2428
2429On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2430doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2431Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2432Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2433
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002434When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2435'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2436fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2437the buffer to be unmodified.
2438Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2439another look at it.
2440
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002441c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2442(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002444You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2445error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2446Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2447at the other match for 0xBF.
2448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2450argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002452Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2453backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2454
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002455When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2456line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2457
2458Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2459position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2460
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002461After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2462(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002463command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002464
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002465":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2466Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2467
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002468When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2469either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2470put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2471
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002472Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2473Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2474Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2475Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2476(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002478Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2479
2480ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002481
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002482Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2483(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2484escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2485an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002486This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2487July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002488Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2489work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2490
2491When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
249231)
2493
2494Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2495work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2496Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002497
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002498Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2499multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2500(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002502Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25032008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002504Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002505
2506Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2507Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2508'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002510Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2511Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2512
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002513Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2514Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2515
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025168 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2517 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2518 several).
2519 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2520 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2521 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2522Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2523
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002524The utf class table is missing some entries:
2525 0x2212, minus sign
2526 0x2217, star
2527 0x2500, bar
2528 0x26ab, circle
2529
2530Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2531line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2532
2533GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2534Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2535
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2537try the Cocoa version.
2538
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002539Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2540changed or the window is resized.
2541
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002542GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2543the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2544
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002545Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2546Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002548Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25491) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2550
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002551C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2552with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2553Try to reproduce at work.
2554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002555Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2556Is there a way to list all the files first?
2557
2558When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2559result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
256016)
2561
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002562Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2563(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2564
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002565Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2566Await response to question to make the register writable.
2567
2568Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25691)
2570
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002571In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2572each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2573
2574try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2575
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002576try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2579Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2582
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002583Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2584Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2585
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002586Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2587Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2588Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002589
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002590When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2591and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2594 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2595
2596New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2597
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002598":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2599a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2602Likonen, March 19)
2603
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002604Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2605other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2606
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002607The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2608appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2609matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002611When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2612character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2613'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2614(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2615
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002616Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2617Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002618
2619More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2620
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002621Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2622http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2623
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002624Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2625back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2626Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002627
2628Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2629No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2630
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002631Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2632terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002633
2634Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2635
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2637but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2638that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002639
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002640Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2641Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2644popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2645size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2646This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2647
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002648When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2649it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2650
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002651Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2652then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2653files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002654Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2655indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2656":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002657in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2658quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002659Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002661When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2662parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2663neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2664particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2665Jun 3)
2666However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2667the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002668
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002669A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2670Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2671
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002672Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2673Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2674
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002675Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2676switch list is noticed:
2677 switch (i)
2678 {
2679 case 1:
2680 foobar:
2681 }
2682
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002683Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2684
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002685Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2686with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2687go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2688moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2689
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002690Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002691GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002692Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2693argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2694(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2695
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002696Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2697(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2698
2699Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2700makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2701.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002702 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002703
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002704Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27052007 Feb 8)
2706
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002707Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2708set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002710Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2711
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2713Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2714New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2715patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2716
2717Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2718Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2719
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002720Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
27212007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002723
2724Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002725label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2726
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002727Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2728with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2729Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002731Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002733Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2734Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2735only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2736
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002737Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2738Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002739Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002740properly?
2741
2742Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27432007 Jun 21)
2744
2745When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2746Jun 18)
2747
2748If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002750Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2751windows. (Adam George)
2752
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002753F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2754modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2755K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2758the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002762":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2763
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002764When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002765error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002766
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002767GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002768use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2769
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2771if_ruby.c.
2772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2774
2775The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2776it in keep_msg?
2777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002778Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002779error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002780name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2781
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002782Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2783longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002784
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002785Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2786Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2787Also for ":w" without a file name.
2788The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002789
2790"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2791Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2792
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002793VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2794directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2795(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2796
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002797VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2798
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2800name?
2801
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002802Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002804When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2805(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2806Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2807will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2808
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002809gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2810This also fails with --remote.
2811
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002812When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28132008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2814all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2817
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002818When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2819(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2822the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2825
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002826Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2827superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2828
2829Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2830character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2831
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002832Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2833Jun 5)
2834
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002835Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28362008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2837Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2838
2839In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2840but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2841Jul 22)
2842
2843There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2844
2845Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2846":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2847somehow? Or use a new function.
2848
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002849Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2852moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2853that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2856
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002857When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002858cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2859the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2860
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2862 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2863 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2864 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2865
2866Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2867partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2868
2869In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2870buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2871reload it then?
2872
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2874
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002875Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2876only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2877
2878Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2879tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2880doesn't contain other directories.
2881
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002882Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2883Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2884
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002885Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2886 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2887 set background=dark
2888This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2889color is, not reset it.
2890
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002891Linux distributions:
2892- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2893 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2894 xfree-xterm".
2895- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2896
2897Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2898start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2899show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2900middle?
2901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2903
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002904When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2905current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2906the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2907
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002908When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2909Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2910
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002911Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2912 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2913 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2914 - getting colors in xterm
2915 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2916
2917Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2918Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2919
2920Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2921
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002922A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2923Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2924
2925Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2926Dara, 2006 June 21)
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2929number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2930
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002931After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2932the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2933
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2937Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2938
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002939Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029402008 Sep 29)
2941
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002942In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2943check the result of has("patch13").
2944
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002945Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2946restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2947
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002948Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2949and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2952put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2953
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002954Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2955resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2956
2957In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2958can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2959
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002960GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2961maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2962doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002963Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2964visible.
2965
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002966When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2967differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002968
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002969The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2970be only one.
2971
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002972Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002973"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2974name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2975Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002976
2977Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2978(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2979
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002980Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2981as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2982
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002983Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
298423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002986":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2987tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2988Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002990When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2991text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2992latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2993
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002994Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2995no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2996
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002997In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2998VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29992007 Oct 16)
3000
3001TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3002Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3003
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003004Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003005
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003006When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3007typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3008Sep 3, 11)
3009
3010When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
3011respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
3012the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
3013what happens for the GUI.
3014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003015":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3016this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3017
3018When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3019Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3020restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3021
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003022Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30232010 Jun 30)
3024
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003025Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3026'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3027(Kartik Agaram)
3028
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003029
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003030Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003031- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3032 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3033- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3034 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3035 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3036- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3037 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3038 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003039- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3040- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003041
3042
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003043More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003044- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3045 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003046- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003047- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3048 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003049- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3050- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3051- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3052 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3053 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003054- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003055- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3056 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3057- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3058 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3059- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3060 21)
3061- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3062 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3063- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3064 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003065- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3066 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003067- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3068 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3069 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3070 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3071 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003072- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003073
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003074Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030759 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3076 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3077 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3078 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3079 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3080 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3081 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3082 (Alan Schmitt)
3083 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003084 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3085 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030869 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003087 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030888 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030897 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3090 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3091 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030928 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003093 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030947 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003095 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3096- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3097 for multi-byte characters.
3098- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3099- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3100 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3101 been given values.
3102 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
31038 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003104 with an ESC sequence.
3105 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3106 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3107 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031087 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3109 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3110- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3111 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3112 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31138 Add functions:
3114 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3115 Update 2004 Sep 10
3116 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3117 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003118 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003119 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3120 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3121 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3122 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3123 (2003 May 13)
3124 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3125 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003126 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3127 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003128 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3129 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3130 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031317 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3132 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031337 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3134 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031358 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3136 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031377 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31388 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3139 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31407 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3141 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031427 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3143- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3144 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3145 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003146- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3147 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3148- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3149
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003150Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3151- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3152 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3153
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003154Quickfix/Location List:
3155- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3156 #2999)
3157- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3158 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3159 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3160 the quickfix buffer?
3161- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3162 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3163- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3164 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3165- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3166 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3167 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3168- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3169 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3170- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3171- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3172 2007 Jan 1)
3173- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3174 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3175- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3176 errors. How do we get the rest?
31778 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3178 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3179 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3180 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31817 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3182 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003183
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003184Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003185- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3186 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031878 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3188 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3189 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3190 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3191 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3192 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031938 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3194 make Vim exit.
31957 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3196 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3197 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31988 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3199 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3200 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32016 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3202 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3203 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32048 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3205 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3206 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3207 names in one buffer???
3208 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3209 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3210 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32117 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3212 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3213 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003214 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3215 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032167 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3217 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32187 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32197 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032207 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3221 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3222 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3223 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32247 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32257 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32267 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3227 to the match with the tag? Option?
32287 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32297 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3230 (Sayre).
32317 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3232 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032337 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3234 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3235 match. Nvi can do it too.
32367 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3237 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3238 line 1\ line 2\\
3239 line 2\ line 3\\
3240 . line4/
32416 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3242 the way the shell is started?
32436 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3244 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3245
3246
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003247GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032489 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032498 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3250 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3251 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032528 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3253 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3254 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032559 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3256 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3257 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3258 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003259- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3260 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3261 blocked for now.
3262
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003263
3264Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003265- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3266 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032678 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3268 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3269 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032706 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3271 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032728 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3273 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3274 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032757 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3276 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3277 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032787 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3279 2004 May 9)
32808 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3281 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3282 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3283 MS-Windows 98?
3284 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3285 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3286 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3287 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032888 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3289 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3290 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3291 doesn't work properly.
32928 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3293 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3294 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32959 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3296 button doesn't give popup menu.
3297 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3298 selection.
3299 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3300 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3301 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33028 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3303 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3304 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3305 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33068 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3307 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3308 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033097 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3310 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3311 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
33127 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3313 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003314 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033157 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3316 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033176 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33188 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3319 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3320 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33218 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3322 know which keyboard is being used?
33237 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3324 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3325 area (Koloseike).
33268 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3327 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3328 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3329 the font name).
3330
3331
3332Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033336 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3334 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3335 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3336 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3337 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033389 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3339 required and it's missing?
33408 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3341 wrong.
33429 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3343 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033449 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003345 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3346 flag.
33478 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3348 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3349 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33508 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33516 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3352 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3353 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3354 the tooltips work though...
33557 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3356 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33578 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3358 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3359 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3360
3361
3362Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033639 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3364 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033659 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3366 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3367 through files.
33687 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3369 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33704 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3371 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3372 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3373 problem during a refresh.
33745 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3375 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3376 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3377 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3378 colors as it should.
3379 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3380 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3381
3382
3383Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003384- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033857 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3386 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033878 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3388 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3389 (Phillipps)
3390
3391
3392GUI:
33939 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3394 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33959 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003396 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003397 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33989 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3399 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34008 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3401 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34028 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3403 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3404 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34058 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3406 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3407 of where it is processing the output.
3408 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34098 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3410 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034118 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034128 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3413 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3414 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034158 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034168 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3417 browse().
34188 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3419 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34208 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3421 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034227 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3423 - regexp on/off
3424 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3425 when all buffers/directory is used:
3426 - filter for file name
3427 when directory is used:
3428 - subdirectory on/off
3429 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034308 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3431 to avoid problems.
34328 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3433 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3434 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34358 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3436 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3437 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34388 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3439 up. Set erase character somehow?
34408 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3441 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3442 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3443 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34448 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34457 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3446 visible.
34477 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3448 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34497 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3450 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34518 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3452 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34538 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3454 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3455 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3456 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3457- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34584 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3459 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3460 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3461
3462
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003463Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034648 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3465 a good fallback, thus use:
3466 $HOME
3467 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3468 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3469 $USERPROFILE
3470 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3471 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3472 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3473 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034748 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3475 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34768 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3477 Should work like in the GUI version.
34788 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3479 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34808 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3481 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34828 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3483 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3484 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034858 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3486 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3487 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3488
3489
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003490Win32 console:
34919 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3492 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3493 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3494 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3495 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3496 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3497 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3498 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3499 and the file is not saved.
3500 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3501 long name.
35028 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3503 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35047 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3505 besides the console.
35068 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35079 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3508 <C-S-i>?
35099 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3510 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35118 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3512 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003513
3514
3515Amiga:
35168 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3517 sequences.
35189 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3519 backslashes in result.
35208 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3521 all options, using white space separation.
3522
3523
3524Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003525- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035267 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3527 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3528 (Jack)
3529 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035308 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3531 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035328 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35338 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35349 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3535 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035369 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003537
3538
3539"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003540- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3541 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003542- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3543 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003544- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3545 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3546 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3547 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3548 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3549 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3550 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035519 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3552 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035539 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003554 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3555 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035568 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3557 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3558 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003559 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035607 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3561 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35628 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3563 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3564 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035657 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3566 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003567- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3568 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035698 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3570 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3571 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3572 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35737 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3574 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3575 invocations belong together.
35768 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3577 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35788 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3579 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3580 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003581 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035828 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3583 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3584 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035858 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3586 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035877 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3588 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3589 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3590 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035917 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3592 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3593 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35947 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3595 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3596 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35977 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3598 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035997 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3600 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036019 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3602 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3603 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3604 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3605 script can be called.
36068 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3607 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3608 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036098 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3610 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036118 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3613 configurable?
36148 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036158 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3616 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036178 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3618 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036198 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3620 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036219 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3622 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3623 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036247 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036258 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3626 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3627 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036288 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3629 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003630 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3631 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036328 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3633 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36349 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3635 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3636 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003637 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036387 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3639 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036407 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3641 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3642 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3643 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3646 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3647 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3648 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3650 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003651 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003652 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3654 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3655 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3656 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3657 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036588 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3659 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36608 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3661 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36628 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3663 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3664 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36658 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3666 'linebreak'.
36678 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3668 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3669 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036709 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3671 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3672 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3673 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36749 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3675 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036769 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36779 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3678 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3679 cause another redraw, etc.
36808 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3681 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36828 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3683 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3684 ":w!!" for that.
3685 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3686 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003687 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036887 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3689 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3690 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3691 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3692 clipboard)
36937 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3694 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3695 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036966 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3697 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3698 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036998 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3700 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37018 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3702 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3703 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000037048 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037058 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3706 (e.g., ":w").
37078 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3708 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037098 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3710 script in do_cmdline().
37118 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3712 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3713 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3714 changes.
37158 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3716 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37178 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3718 check for file marks. This can be slow.
37197 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3720 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3721 needed.
3722 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
37238 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3724 to skip catch_signals()?
37259 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3726 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3727 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3728 text?
37298 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3730 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37318 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3732 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37339 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3734 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3735 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3736 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3737 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37387 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3739 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3740 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3741 in the list?
37428 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3743 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3744 instead of on button down.
37458 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37469 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3747 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003748 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3749 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037508 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3751 character is typed.
37528 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3753 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37548 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3755 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37568 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3757 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3758 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3759 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3760 cygwin bash.
37617 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3762 Remember flags for backreferences.
37637 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3764 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37657 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3766 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37678 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3768 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37697 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3770 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037717 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3772 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3773 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37747 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3775 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37768 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3777 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3778 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37797 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3780 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003781
3782
3783I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37849 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3785 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3786 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003787
3788
3789Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003790- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3791 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3792 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003793- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3794 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3795 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3796 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3797 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3798 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003799 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003800- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3801 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003802 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003803 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3804 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3805 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3807 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3808 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3809 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3810 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3811- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3812 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3813 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3814- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3815 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003816- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003817- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3818 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3819 character gets the highlighting.
3820- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3821 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3822- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3823 (Jennings)
3824- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003825- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003826- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003827 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3829 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3830 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3831- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3832 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3833 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3834 (Benzinger).
3835- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3836 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3837 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3838- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3839 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3840- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3841 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3842- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3843 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3844 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3845 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3846 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3847 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3848- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3849 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3850 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003851- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3852 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3853 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003854- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3855 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3856 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3857- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3858 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3859- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3860 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003861- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3862 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3863- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3864 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3865 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3866 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3867 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3868- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3869 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3870 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3871- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3872 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3873 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003874- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3875 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 +00003876- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3877 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3878 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3879 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3880 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3881- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3882 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3883
3884--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3885 *extensions-improvements*
3886
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003887Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3888- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3889 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3890 calling a function.
3891 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3892 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003893- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3894 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003895 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003896- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3897 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3898 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3899 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3900 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3901 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003902 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003903- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3904 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3905 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003906- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3907 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039088 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3909 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3910 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3911 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003912- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3913 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003914
3915
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003916Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039178 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3918 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039198 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3920 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039218 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3922 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039238 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039249 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3925 - change to cursor position and curswant
3926 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3927 - how it works for folded lines
3928 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39299 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3930 work too.
39318 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3932 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3933 text.
39348 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39357 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3936 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39377 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3938 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003939 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3941
3942
3943Help:
3944- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3945 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3946- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3947 to the other matches.
3948- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003949- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3950 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3951 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3952 default contents.
3953- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3954 height for the help window (and other windows).
3955- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3956- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3957- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3958
3959
3960User Friendlier:
39618 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3962 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3963 Briscoe)
39648 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39658 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3966 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3967 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39688 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3969 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3970- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3971 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003972- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39739 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3974 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3975 item?).
3976 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039778 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039787 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3979 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3980 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039818 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3982 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3983 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3984 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003985
3986
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003987Tab pages:
39889 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039897 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3990 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039918 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039928 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039937 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039947 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003995 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039968 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3997 tab pages.
39987 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3999
4000
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004001Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004002- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
4003 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
4004- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4005 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4006 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4007- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4008 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004009- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4010 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4011 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004012- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4013 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4014 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004015- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4016 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004017- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004018 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4019 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040208 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4021 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40228 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4023 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40248 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4025 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004026 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004027 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4028 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4029 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4030 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004031- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4032 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004033- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004034- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4035 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004036- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004037 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004038- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004039 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004040- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4041 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004042- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4043 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4044- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004045 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004046 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4047 in the affix file separately.
4048 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004049 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004050 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4051 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4052 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4053- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4054 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4055 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4056 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4057 Alternative:
4058 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4059 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4060 affix which is required.
4061- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004062 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004063- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4064 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4065 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004066- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4067 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004068- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4069 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4070- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040718 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4072 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4073 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4074 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004075- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4076 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4077 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4078 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040798 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4080 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040818 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40828 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4083 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040847 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40858 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4086 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4087 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4088 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004089
4090
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004091Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040929 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4093 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040948 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004095 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004096
4097Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004098 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4099 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041008 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4101 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041028 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4103 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041048 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4105 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4106 user aware of this?
41078 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4108 commands skip over a closed fold.
41098 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41108 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041117 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004112- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4113 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4114 missing line goes unnoticed.
4115 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004116- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4117 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4118 smoother?
4119- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4120 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004121- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4122 file can contain:
4123 args version.c main.c
4124 edit version.c
4125 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004127- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4128 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004129- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4130 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004131- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4132 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004133- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004134
4135Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004136- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4137 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4138 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4139 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041409 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4141 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4142 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4143 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041449 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4145 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4146 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041478 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4148 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4149 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4150 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4151 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4152 item.
41538 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004154 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4155 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041568 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4157 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041588 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4159 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4160 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041617 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4162 so that the user can fix the problem.
41638 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4164 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041659 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41668 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041678 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41688 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041697 Searching and composing characters:
4170 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004171 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4172 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041738 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41748 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41758 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4176 characters.
41778 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41788 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4179 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41807 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4181 'display' option to specify this.
41827 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4183 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4184- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4185 fontselector somehow.
4186- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4187 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4188- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4189 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4190- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4191 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4192 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4193 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4194 if a font exists?
4195- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004196 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004197- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4198 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004199- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4200 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4201 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4202 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4204 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004205 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4207 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4208 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4209 But it's very complicated...
4210
4211
4212Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042137 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004214- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4215- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4216 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004217- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4218 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004219- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4220- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4221 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004222- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4223 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004224- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4225 units as for the margins.
4226- Support right-to-left text?
42278 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4228 color.
4229
4230
4231Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042328 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4233 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42348 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4235 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42368 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4237 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042387 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4239 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042408 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4241 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4242 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042437 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4244 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4245 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042468 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42479 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4248 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042497 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4250 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042517 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4252 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042538 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4254 change this for each release.
42558 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4256 pattern, but not in the body.
42578 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4258 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4259 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042608 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042618 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004262 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4263 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042648 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4265 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42668 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4267 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004268 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042698 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4270 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4271 used.
42728 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4273 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42748 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4275 re-insert the [] if possible.
42768 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4277 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042788 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4279 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4280 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4281 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4282 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042838 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4284 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42858 Support for deleting syntax items:
4286 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4287 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4288 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42898 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4290 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4291 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42927 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4293 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4294 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42957 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4296 detected.
42978 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004298 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042998 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4300 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043018 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43028 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43037 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4304 ":mkvimrc".
43058 Improve c.vim:
4306 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4307 "c_strict_ansi".
4308 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43098 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4310 current line while in Insert mode.
43118 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4312 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43138 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4314 display position.
43158 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4316 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4317 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43188 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4319 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4320 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043217 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4322 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4323 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4324 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4325 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043267 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4327 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4328 E.g. for this html:
4329 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043307 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43317 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4332 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043338 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43348 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043357 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4336 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4337 completion?
43388 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4339 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43407 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4341 select one of the sets.
43428 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4343 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4344 2, etc.
43458 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4346 highlighting (for "." command).
43478 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4348 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43498 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43507 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4351 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43526 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4353 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4354- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4355 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4356- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004357- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4358 (for comment blocks).
4359- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4360 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4361 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4362 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4363 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4364 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4365 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4366 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4367 (Campbell)
4368 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4369 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43707 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4371 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43727 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4373 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4374 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43757 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4376 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4377 messages. And external commands?
43788 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4379 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43807 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4381 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4382
4383
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004384Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043858 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4386 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004387 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043887 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4389 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4390 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043918 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4392 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004393- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043948 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4395 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4396 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4397 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4398 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4399 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044007 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4401 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044038 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4404 can be the plugin name.
4405 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4406 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044077 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4408 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4409 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4410 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4411 autocommand.
4412 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4413 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4414 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4415 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044167 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4417 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044186 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4419 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044208 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004421 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4422 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004423 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4424 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4425 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004426 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4427 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4428 3 2002
4429 Only add this when also implemented for
4430 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4431 be used.
4432 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004433 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4434 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4435 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4436 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4437 File.Open..." argument.
4438 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4439 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4440 with properties instead.
4441 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4442 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4443 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004444 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004445 crypt() encrypt string
4446 decrypt() decrypt string
4447 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4448 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004449 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004450 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004451 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004452 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004454 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4455 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004456 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4457 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004458 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004459 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4460 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4461 to allow the library to execute a command or
4462 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044637 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4464 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44658 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4466 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044678 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4468 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044698 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044709 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004471 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44726 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044738 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4474 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044758 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4476 option or environment variable.
44778 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044788 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004479 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044807 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4481 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044828 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4483 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44848 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44858 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4486 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4487 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4488 charwise({expr}).
44897 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4490 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4491 buffer for this?
4492 result = scratch(string, command)
4493 result = apply(string, command)
4494 result = execute(string, command)
4495 "command" would use <> notation.
4496 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44977 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004498
4499
4500Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045016 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4502 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4503 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4504 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4505 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4506 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4507 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004508
4509
4510Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045117 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4512 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045137 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4514 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4515 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4516 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045178 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4518 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4519 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4520 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004521 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045228 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45239 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45248 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45257 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4526 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45278 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4528 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4529 when starting up in a color terminal.
45308 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4531 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045328 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4533 function be improved?
45348 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4535 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4536 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4537 this be improved?
45388 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4539 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045407 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4541 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045427 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4543 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45447 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4545 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045467 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4547 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4548 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4549 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4550 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4551 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4552 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045538 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4554 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4555 using strcmp() too often?
45567 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4557 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4558 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4559 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4560 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4561 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45627 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4563 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4564 with an argument that can be messed with.
4565 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4566 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45677 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4568- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45698 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4570 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4571- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4572 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4573- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4574- Do profiling on:
4575 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004576 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4577 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4578 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4579 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4580 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4581 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004582 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045837 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4584 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4585 changed).
4586 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4587 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4588- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4589- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4590 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4591- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4592 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4593 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004594- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4595- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4596 cursor is right of the screen.
45978 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4598 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4599
4600
4601Code size:
46028 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4603- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4604 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46058 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46068 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4607 it.
46087 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4609 left out.
46108 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4611 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046128 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004613
4614
4615Messages:
46168 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4617 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46188 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4619 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46208 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4621 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4623 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4624- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046258 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4626 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046279 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4628 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4629 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4630 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4631 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046328 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4633 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46348 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4635 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4636 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4637 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4638 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4639 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004640- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004641 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046428 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4643 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4644 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4645 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4646 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4647 error messages, printing text, etc.
46488 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4649 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4650 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4651
4652
4653Screen updating:
46547 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4655 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4656 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4657- screen_line():
4658 - insert/delete character stuff.
4659 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4660- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4661 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4662- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4663 waiting for a character.
46648 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4665 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4666 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004667
4668Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046698 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046706 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4671- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4672 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4673 windows.
46747 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4675 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4676 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4677- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4678 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4679 (Goldfarb)
4680- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4681 bound windows.
4682- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4683 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004684- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004685- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4686 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4687 of lines but not with a single line).
4688
4689
4690Autoconf:
46918 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46928 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4693 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4694- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4695 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4696- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4697- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4698- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4699
4700
4701Perl interface:
47028 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047037 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47047 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47056 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4706
4707
4708Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047098 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4710 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047116 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4712 :libload internal-name libname
4713 :libunload internal-name
4714 :liblist
4715 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4716 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4717 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47186 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4719
4720
4721Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047229 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4723 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4724 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4725 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4726 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047278 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4728 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4729 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004730 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004731 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047327 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4733 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4734 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047358 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47368 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4737 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047387 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4739 window for each tag.
47407 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47417 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4742 bottom" search message.
47437 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4744 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4745 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004746- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4747- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004748- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4749 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4750 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047517 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4752 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4753 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4754 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47557 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4756 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4757 :tagargs clear
4758 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4759 matching).
47607 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4761 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4762 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4763 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47647 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4765 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47667 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4767 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4768 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004769
4770
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004771Win32 GUI:
47728 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4773 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047747 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4775 (Mike McCollister)
47768 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4777 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4778 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4779 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4780 common part of the path.
47818 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47828 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4783 gettext and menus work.
47848 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4785 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004786 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004787 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47888 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4789 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47908 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4791 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47927 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4793 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47947 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47957 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47967 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4797 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4798 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4799 prompts.
48007 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4801 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4802 the file added into an already running Vim.
48037 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4804 functions to find the window title.
4805
4806
4807GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048088 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004809- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4810 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48117 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48128 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48136 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48148 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4815 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48169 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48177 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48188 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4819 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48208 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4821 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4822 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48238 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4824 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48258 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4826 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4827 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4828 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048297 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48308 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4831 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048327 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4833 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4834 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048358 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48368 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004837 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48398 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48408 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4841 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4842 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48437 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4844 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4845 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48467 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4847 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48487 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4849 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4850 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4851 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048527 Should support multi-column menus.
4853- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4854 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4855- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48568 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48576 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4858 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48597 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48607 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4861 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4862 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48637 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48648 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4865 name can be chosen free.
48667 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4867 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48686 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4869 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4870 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4871 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4872 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4873 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4874 things.
48757 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4876 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048777 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004878 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004879- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4880 where it was started from?
48817 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4882
4883
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004884Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048859 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4886 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004887- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048888 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4889 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4890 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4891 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48928 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4893 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048947 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4895 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4896 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4897 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048987 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048998 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4900 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049018 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4902 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4903 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049047 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4905 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4906 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049078 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4908 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4909 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049108 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4911 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049128 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049136 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4914 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049157 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049167 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004917 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4918 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4919 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049205 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4921 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4922 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49237 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4924 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4925 file.
49268 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4927 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4928 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004929- Add events to autocommands:
4930 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004931 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004932 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4933 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004934 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004935 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004936 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4937 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4938 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4939 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004940 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4942 the char.
4943 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4944 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4945 file from CVS).
4946 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4947 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4948 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4949 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4950 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4951 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004952 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4953 changes.
4954 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4955 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004956- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004958 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004959 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4960 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4961 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4962 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4963 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4964
4965
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004966Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004967- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4968 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004969- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4970 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4971 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4972 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4973 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004974- Ideas from others:
4975 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4976 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4977 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4978 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4979 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4980 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4981 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4982 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4983 Uses Perl for C++.
4984 Uses ctags to find the info:
4985 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4986 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4987 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4988 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4989 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4990 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004991 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004992 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4993- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4994
4995
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004996Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004997- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049987 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4999 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050007 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5001 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5002 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050038 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5004 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50059 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5006 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5007 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050088 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5009 - ignore/match case
5010 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050118 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5012 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5013 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5014 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5015 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5016 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050178 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050187 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5019 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050208 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5021 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5022 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5023 Should work for C++ and Java.
5024 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50257 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50267 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5027 instead of words.
50288 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50298 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5030 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50318 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5032 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005033- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5034 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5036 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5037 wildcards in the file name)?
5038- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5039- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5040- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5041 be in another file).
5042- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5043- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5044- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5045 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5046- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5047- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5048- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005049- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5050
5051
5052Command line editing:
50537 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5054 line.
50558 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5056 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5057 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5058- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5059 lines wraps to start of line).
5060- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5061 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5062 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5063 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5064 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5065 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5066 cmdwin does now already.
5067 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5068 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5069 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5070 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5071 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5072 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5073 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5074 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5075 Problems:
5076 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5077 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5078 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5079 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5080 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5081 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5082 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5083 character in first column?
5084 - Implementation ideas:
5085 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5086 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5087 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5088 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5089 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5090 Mode.
5091
5092
5093Command line completion:
50948 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50958 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5096 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50978 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5098 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050998 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5100 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051017 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5102 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005103- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5104- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5105 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051068 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5107 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51087 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5109 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5110- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5111 identifiers (Webb).
51128 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5113 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51147 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5115 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5116- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5117 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5118- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5119 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5120 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005121
5122
5123Command line history:
5124- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5125 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5126 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005127 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005128- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5129 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5130
5131
5132Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051339 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5134 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5135 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051368 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5137 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5138 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5139 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5140 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051418 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5142 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5143 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051447 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5145 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005146- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051477 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5148 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5149- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5150 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5151 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5152 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5153 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5154 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5155- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5156 Normal mode.
5157- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5158 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5159 are used.
5160- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5161- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5162- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5163
5164
5165'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051669 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5167 char * veryLongName =
5168 "very long string"
5169 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051708 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051718 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5172 long_type foo =
5173 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051748 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5175 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005176 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051778 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5178 func(
5179 new String[] {
5180 "asdf",
5181 "asdf"
5182 }
5183 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051848 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5185 (Chow Loong Jin)
5186 namespace {
5187 int
5188 func(int arg) {
5189 }
5190 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051916 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5192 func( arg1
5193 , arg2
5194 , arg3
5195 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051967 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005197 func(
5198 int x) // indent like "(4"
5199 {
5200 if (a
5201 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052029 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5203 if (a)
5204 {
5205 if (b)
5206 {
5207 // {
5208 }
5209 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005210 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5211 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5212 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005213- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52157 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5216- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5217 line).
5218- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5219- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5220 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005221- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5222 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5223- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5224 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5225- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5226- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5227 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52288 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5229 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5230 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5231- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5232- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5233 lines start with "\item".
5234- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5235 /* here is a comment that
5236 is just autoindented, and
5237 nothing else */
5238- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52397 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5240 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5241 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005242 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005243
5244
5245Java:
52468 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5247 Odendahl?
52488 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5249 "[i" commands and friends.
5250- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5251 (Jason)
5252- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5253 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5254
5255
5256'comments':
52578 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5258 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5259 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5260 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005261 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5262 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052637 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5264 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52657 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52666 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5267 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5268 regexp is used.
52698 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5270 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5271
5272
5273Virtual edit:
52748 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052757 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5276
5277
5278Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052798 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052808 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052818 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005282 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052838 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5284 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005285 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5286 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052878 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052888 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5289 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052908 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5291 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5292 the end of the line or before a ".".
52937 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5294 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52957 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5296 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052976 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52985 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5299 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5300 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5301 cursor is on.
5302
5303
5304Select mode:
53058 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5306 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53077 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005308 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053097 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5310 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5311 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5312 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5313 normal_cmd().
5314 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5315 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5316
5317
5318Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053198 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5320 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005321- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5322 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5323 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005324- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5325 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5326 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053278 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005328 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329 where needed.
53307 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5331 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53327 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5333 of each selected line.
53348 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53358 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5336 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5337 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53388 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5339 Ben Godfrey)
53407 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5341 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53427 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5343 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053447 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005345 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005346 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53478 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5348 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53497 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5350 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5351 option!
53527 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5353 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5354 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5355 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5356 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5357 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5358 without changing the column.
53596 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053607 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5361 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053626 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5363 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53646 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053656 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005366 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005367 or other special character.
53686 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5369
5370
5371More advanced repeating commands:
5372- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005373- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005374- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005375 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5376 "y." will repeat last yank.
5377 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5378 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5379 and/or pick an older command.
5380- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5381
5382
5383Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053848 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5385 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5386 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53878 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53887 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5389 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053908 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5391 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53928 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053937 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053948 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5395 entering search strings.
53968 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5397 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5398 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053998 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5400 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054017 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054027 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5403 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054046 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5405 abbreviations are to be used.
5406- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5407 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5408 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005409- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5410 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5411 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5412 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5413 Or implicit:
5414 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005415- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5416 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5417 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005418- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5419 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5420- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5421 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54226 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5423 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5424 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5425 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005426- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5427 non-replace Insert mode?
5428- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005429- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5430- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5431 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5432- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005433 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5435 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5436- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5437- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5438 ":freekeys".
5439- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5440
5441
5442Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005443- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5444 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5445- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5446 folds when going to another line.
5447 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5448- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5449 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005450- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5451 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5452 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005453- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5454 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5455 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5456 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054579 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5458 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005459
5460
5461Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054629 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054638 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005464 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005465 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005466 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005467 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054689 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5469 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054708 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5471 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054728 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5473 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5474 Perl does it this way:
5475 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5476 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5477 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5478 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054798 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5480 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5481 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054827 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5483 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054848 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5485 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054867 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005487 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5488 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5489 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054907 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005491 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054927 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5493 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054948 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5495 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54968 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5497 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054987 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005499 example.
55008 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5501 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5502- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5503 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5504 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5505 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055068 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5507 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5508 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55097 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5510 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055117 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5512 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055138 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5514 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055158 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5516 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055178 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5518 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5519 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5520 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005521- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5522 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005523- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5524 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5525- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5526 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5527 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5528 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055298 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5530 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005531- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5532 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055338 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5534 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5535 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005536- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5537 i ignore case
5538 I use case
5539 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5540 v use Vi regexp syntax
5541 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5542 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5543 Perl uses these too:
5544 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5545 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5546 o compile only once (Perl only)
5547 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5548 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5549 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5550 following command.
5551 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5552- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5553 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5554 for search string)?
55557 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5556 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5557- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5558 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5559- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5560 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5561- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5562- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005563 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005564 a for the next file in the argument list
5565 f for file in the buffer list
5566 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005567 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5568 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5570 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5571- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055727 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005573 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055747 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5575 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5576 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5577 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55786 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5579 effects.
55807 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5581 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5582 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055837 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005584 Also ":dselect".
5585
5586
5587Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055889 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5589 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5590 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055919 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5592 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055938 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5594 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055958 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5596 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5597 timestamp?
5598 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5599 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005600- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5601 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5603 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5604 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56058 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5606 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5607 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5608 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56098 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5610 only remember the lines that really changed.
56117 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5612 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5613 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5614 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005615- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5616 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5617- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5618 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5619- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5620 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5621 [-99].
5622- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5623- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005624- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5625 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5626
5627
5628Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056297 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5630 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5631 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5632 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56338 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5634 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56358 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5636 inode too.
56377 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005638 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5639 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056407 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5641 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5642- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5643 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5644- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5645 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56467 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5647 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56487 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5649 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56508 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056517 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5652 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056538 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5654 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5655 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005656
5657
5658Swap (.swp) files:
56598 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5660 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5661 there are short file name problems.
56628 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5663 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56648 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56658 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005666 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005667 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5668 file the same as the actual file?
5669 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056707 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5671 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56727 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005673 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005674 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5675 enough room.
56767 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5677 or /var/preserve.
5678- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5679 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5680- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005681 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005682- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5683 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5684 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5685 cached list of which line is where.
5686
5687
5688Viminfo:
56897 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5690 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5691 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056928 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5693 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5694 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056958 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5696 name. (Schild)
56978 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56988 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056998 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057008 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5701 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5702 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5703 this?
57047 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57057 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5706 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57076 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5708 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5709 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5710- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5711 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5712
5713
5714Modelines:
57158 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5716 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5717 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005718- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5719 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5720 'shiftwidth'.
5721- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5722 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005723- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5724 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5725 modeline setting.
5726- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5727 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5728- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5729 .cpp files.
5730- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5731 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5732- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5733 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5734
5735
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005736Sessions:
57378 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5738 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57397 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5740 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057418 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5742 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057438 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5744 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5745 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057467 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5747 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057487 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005749
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005750
5751Options:
57527 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5753 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057548 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5755 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5756 also be supported.
57578 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5758 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5759 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57607 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005761
5762
5763External commands:
57648 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5765 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57664 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5767 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5768 -f).
57694 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57704 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5771 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57724 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5773
5774
5775Multiple Windows:
57767 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57778 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5778 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57797 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5780 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5781 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057827 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5783 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057847 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5785 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057866 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5787 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005788 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005789 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57907 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5791 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5792 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5793 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5794- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5795 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5796 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5797 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5798
5799
5800Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058018 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058028 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5803 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058048 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 +000058058 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5806 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58078 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5808 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5809 the mark was set.
58107 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5811 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5812 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5813 ":browse marks"?
58146 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058157 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5816 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58177 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5818 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58197 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5820 command).
58217 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5822 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5823 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5824 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58255 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5826 mappings.
58276 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5828 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5829 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5830
5831
5832Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058337 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005834 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005835- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5836 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058378 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058387 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5839 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5840
5841
5842Writing files:
5843- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5844 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5845 shortname conversion.
58468 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58478 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5848 file.
58498 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5850 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5851 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058526 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5853 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58546 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5855 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58566 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5857 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058588 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005859 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58607 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5861 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58627 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5863 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5864 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5865 waiting for a character to be typed).
58668 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5867 line of the window, like "[time]".
5868 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5869 Automatic and/or with a command.
5870
5871
5872Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058738 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5874 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058758 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005876 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5877- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5878- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58798 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5880 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005881- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005882 :s///N substitutes N times.
5883- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5884 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5885 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58867 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5887 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5888 last line column 5.
58895 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5890 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5891 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5892 (Stanislav Sitar)
5893
5894
5895Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058968 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58977 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58988 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5899 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5900 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005901- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5902- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5903 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5904- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5905- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5906
5907
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005908Argument list:
59096 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5910 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5911 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59126 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5913
5914
5915Registers:
59168 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059178 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5918 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5919 for every line.
59206 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5921 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5922 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5923- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5924 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5925- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5926 leader when line wraps?
5927- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5928 line in the range.
5929- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5930 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59318 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5932 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005933
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934
5935Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059368 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059378 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059387 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59397 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5940
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005941Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059427 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5943 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5944 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5945 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5946 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5947 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5948 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005949 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059507 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5951 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059527 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5953 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059548 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5955 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059567 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5957 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5958 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005959- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005960 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059617 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5962 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59638 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059647 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5965 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59668 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5967 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059686 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059698 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5970 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5971 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5972 in this Vim.
59738 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005974 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059758 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5976 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5977 have it apply to the following command.
59788 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5979 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5980 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5981 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059827 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5983 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059847 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5985 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5986 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5987 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059886 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59898 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59909 Support ACLs on more systems.
59917 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5992 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059937 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5994 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5995 (truncated to fit in the space).
59967 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59978 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59988 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5999 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060007 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006001 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60027 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6003 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060047 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060057 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60067 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060078 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60088 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6009 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6010 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6011 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60128 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060138 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060148 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6015 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6016 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6017 does something like this. (Shah)
60187 Use growarray for replace stack.
60197 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6020 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60213 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060227 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6023 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060247 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6025 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006026- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6027- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6028- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6029- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60307 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6031 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6032- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6033 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006034- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006035- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6036 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6037- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6038 call "play newbeep.au").
6039- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6040 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6041 (Bhatt).
6042- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6043 blockwise registers).
6044- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6045 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6046- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6047 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6048 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6049 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006050- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060517 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6052 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6053- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6054 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6055 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6056 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6057 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060588 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6059 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060608 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6061 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6062 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6063 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6064 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6065- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006066- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060677 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6068 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6069- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6070 not in column 1.
60716 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6072 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60737 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6074- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006075- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006076 :redir #> bufname
6077 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006078- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6079 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006080- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6081 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6082 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60836 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6084 console? (Klaus Hast)
6085- Add :delcr command:
6086 *:delcr*
6087 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6088 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6089 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6090 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6091 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006092 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006093- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6094- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6095 characters from 'isprint'.
6096- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6097- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6098 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6099- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6100 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6101 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6102- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6103- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6104 Nvi).
6105- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6106 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61077 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6108- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6109 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61106 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6111- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6112 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6113 macro).
6114- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6116 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6117- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61188 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006119- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6120- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6121- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6122 if it is not the first or last window.
6123- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6124 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61257 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6126 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6127 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6128- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6129- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006130 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006131 many percent down the windows).
6132- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6133 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6134 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006135 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006136- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6137 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6138- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6139 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6140- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6141- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6142- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6143 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061448 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6145 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6146 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6147 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6148 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006149- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6150 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6151- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006152 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6153- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6155 (Webb).
6156- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006157 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006158- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6159 hex codes like 0xff).
6160- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6161 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6162 the last TYPED command.
6163- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6164- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6165- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6166 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006167- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061688 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6169 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6170 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006171- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006172 trailing '.'.
6173- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6174 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6175 find_file_in_path().
6176- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6177 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6178- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6179- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6180 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6181- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006182 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6184 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6185 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6187- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6188- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6189 to the minimal size.
6190- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6191- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6192- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6193- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6194- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006195- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6196 entered)?
6197- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6198 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006199- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006200- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6201- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6202- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6203- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6204- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6205 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006206- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062078 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6208 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6209 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6210 or in octal.
62117 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6212 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006213- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006214 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6215- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6216- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6217 insert line command).
6218- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6219- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6220- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6221- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6222- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6223 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006224- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225 yet.
6226- Implement 'redraw' option.
6227- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6228 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062297 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6230 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006231 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6232 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062338 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6234 do it.
6235- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6236- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6237 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6238- Add text justification option.
6239- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6240- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6241 off".
6242- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6243- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6244- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006245 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006246- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006247- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6249 commands.
6250- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6251- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6252- :table command (Webb)
6253- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006254- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6255- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6256- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6257- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6258- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6259 (Demirel).
6260- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6261- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6262 for use in macro's and the like.
6263- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006264 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006265- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006267- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006268 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6270- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6271 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006272- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006273 mkopttab to make option table?
6274- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6275 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6276- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6277 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006278- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006279 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6280- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6281 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006282- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062838 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6284 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6285 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6286 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6287 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062888 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6289 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6290 (Netherton)
62916 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6292 space after "(", for example.
62935 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6294 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6295 (Servatius Brandt)
6296
6297
6298From Elvis:
6299- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6300- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301- Search patterns:
6302 \@ match word under cursor.
6303 but do:
6304 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6305 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63068 ":window" command:
6307 :win + next window (up)
6308 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6309 :win - previous window (down)
6310 :win -- idem, wrapping
6311 :win nr to window number "nr"
6312 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63137 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6314 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6315
6316
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006317From xvi:
6318- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6319- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6320
6321
6322From vile:
6323- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6324- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6325 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6326
6327
6328Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006329- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6330 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006331 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006332 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6333 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006334- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6335 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6336- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6337 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6338 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6339 current layout mirrored.
6340- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6341- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6342 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6343- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6344- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6345 font in each top-level window.
6346- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6347- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6348- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6349- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6350 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006351- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6352 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6353- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6354 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63554 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6356 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6357 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6358 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006359 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006360 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6361 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6362- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6363 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6364 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6365
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006366vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006367vim: set fo+=n :