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Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2016 Jan 27
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
33
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +020038- The regexp engines are not reentrant, causing havoc when interrupted by a
39 remote expression or something else. Move global variables onto the stack
40 or into an allocated struct.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010041- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
42 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010043- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
44 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010045- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020046- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
47 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010048- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010049- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
50 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010051- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010052 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +010053- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010054- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020055- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
56- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
57 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020058- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010059- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
60 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020061- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
62 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
63 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +020064 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
65 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010066- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
67- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010068- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010069- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
70 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
71 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
72 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +010073- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
74 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +020075- The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +010076 matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +010077- Search for \\~ causes error E874.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010078- "\%1l^#.*" does not match on a line starting with "#". The zero-width match
79 clears the start-of-line flag.
80
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +010081+channel:
82- cleanup on exit? in mch_getout() and getout().
83- more contents in channel.txt
84
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010085C89: remove __ARGS in more places
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +010086- /tmp/noargs.vim
87- /tmp/eliminate__ARGS.vim
88- Script: Hirohito Higashi, Jan 25, 2nd one.
89- Assume HAVE_STDARG_H is always defined.
90
91This difference is unexpected:
92 echo v:true == 1
93 1
94 echo [v:true] == [1]
95 0
96It's because tv_equal() works different.
97
98Do we need to roll-back patch 1165, that put libintl-8.dll before libintl.dll?
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +010099
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100100Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
101interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
102Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
103interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
104result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200105
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +0200106Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200107More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
108
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200109Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100110work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200111
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100112Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
113
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100114jsonencode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
115What if there is an invalid character?
116
117Should jsonencode()/jsondecode() restrict recursiveness?
118Or avoid recursiveness.
119
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100120Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
121'iskeyword' for syntax.
122
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100123Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
124(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
125
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100126Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
127
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100128Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
129It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
130Add configure check?
131Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
132Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
133Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
134
135Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
136(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
137
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100138":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
139directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
140
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100141Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
142More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
143Now part of large file patches. (Ken Takata, 2016 Jan 19, second one)
144Updated patches with ordering: Jan 20.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100145And another update: Jan 24
146
1477 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
148 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
149 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
150 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
151Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 27.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100152
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200153Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
154changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
155and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100156Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
157Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
1586, 2nd message)
159Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100160
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200161Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
162
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200163Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
164
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200165Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
166(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200167
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100168Patch to support 64 bit ints for Number. (Ken Takata, 2016 Jan 21)
169
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100170Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
171github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100172 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100173Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100174
175Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100176>
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100177When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
178triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
179set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100180
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200181Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200182
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100183Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comperator than when
184comparing individual items.
185Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
186Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
187Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
188equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
189
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100190Plugin to use Vim in MANPAGER. Konfekt, PR #491
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100191
192Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
193
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100194MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
195wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
196
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100197Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
198specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
199
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100200Half-finished patch to fix the Problem using cgn to change a search hit when
201replacement includes hit. Reported by John Beckett, fix by Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01002022016 Jan 11.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100203
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200204Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200205inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200206
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100207Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
208'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster?
209
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100210Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
211(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
212
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100213Need a Vim equivalent of Python's None and a way to test for it.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100214Use v:none. var == v:none
215
216Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
21724) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100218
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100219To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
220library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
221
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100222When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
223is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
224
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +0200225Test 44 fails when [[=A=]] is changed to [[=À=]]. Caused by getcmdline() not
226handling the 0x80 as a second byte correctly? (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 10)
227
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100228Weird encryption problems on Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Feb 13)
229Goes away when disabling the swap file. (might1, Feb 16)
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200230
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200231MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
232(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
233
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100234Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
235program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
236implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
237Olaf Dabrunz is working on this.
238
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200239The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
24024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100241
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200242":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
243effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
244
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200245":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
2469)
247
248The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
249wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
250
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200251Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200252Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200253
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100254Crash in :cnext on MS-Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Oct 27)
255
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100256When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
257the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
258
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100259Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
26026, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22)
261
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200262Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
263Sep 10)
264
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200265Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200266Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8.
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200267
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100268Patch to improve I/O for Perl. (Damien, 2015 Jan 9, update Jan 22 2nd one)
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100269
270Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
271Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
272Problem mentioned by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 4.
273
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200274Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectating that it ends in a
275slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
276inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
277
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200278ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
2792014 Sep 11)
280
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200281Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
282(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
283
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200284When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
285'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
286
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200287Patch to apply 'fileformats' when starting Vim. (Mike Williams, 2015 Jul 22)
288
289Patch for matchit plugin related to multibyte chars. (Ken Takata, 2015 Jul 22)
290
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200291Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200292(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100293Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
294- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
295 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
296 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
297- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
298 covered by the above change.
299So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +0100300same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200301
302Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
303Work in progress.
304
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100305Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
306when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
307
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200308Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
309Is this right?
310
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200311Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
312(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
313Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
314
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200315Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
316Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100317
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200318Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting.
319(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come.
320
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100321Patch to add wordcount(). Same info as g CTRL-G. (Christian Brabandt, 2015
322Nov 17)
323
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200324Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
325Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
326
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200327Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
328
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100329Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
330Issue #459.
331
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100332When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
333filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
334initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
335
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100336Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
337
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200338Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
339OK to not block marks?
340
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100341Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
342
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100343Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
344(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100345Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100346
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100347Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
348
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100349When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
350Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
351
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200352When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
353(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
354
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200355Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200356
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100357Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
358(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
359
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200360When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
361any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
362
363Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200364
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100365Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
366lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
367
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100368Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100369
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100370Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
3712015 Feb 6.
372
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100373Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
374Is this a good solution?
375
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100376Patch to add /pattern/ to :oldfiles. Pull #575.
377
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200378Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
379functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
380Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
381Second one. Update May 22.
382Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
383
384Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
385(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
386
387Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
388
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100389Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
390Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
391was already defined.
392(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
393
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200394Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
395
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200396Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100397Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100398Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100399Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jan 4.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100400
401Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200402
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200403Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
404(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
405
406Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
407
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100408Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
409(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
410
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200411Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
412Update 2015 Jul 25 (email).
413
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100414Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
415change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
416them: ":repeats".
417
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100418Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
419
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100420When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
421these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
422window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
423
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100424Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
425should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
426history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
427Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
428
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200429"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
430Jun 8)
431
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100432Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
433insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
434
435Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100436Update Dec 6.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200437
438Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
439
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100440No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
441
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200442Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
443(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
444Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
445arguments.
446
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100447Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
448
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200449Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100450
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200451Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
4520x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
453New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
454compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
455
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100456Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100457Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
458Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100459
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200460Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
461right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200462its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200463
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100464Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
465What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
466
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100467Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
468
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100469Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events.
470(Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1)
471
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100472This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
473 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
474This neither: (ZyX)
475 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
476
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200477'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
478Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
479from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100480
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200481Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
4822014 Jun 8)
483
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100484Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100485Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100486Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
487Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
488User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100489- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
490 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
491 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100492- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
493- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
494 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
495 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
496 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
497 on vim.org.
498- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
499 there. Can manually update when really needed.
500- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
501- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
502- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
503- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
504Implementation:
505- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
506 plugin separate.
507- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
508 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
509 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
510- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
511 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
512- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
513 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
514 installing.
515Out of scope:
516- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
517- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
518 useful).
519
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200520Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
521normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100522
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200523CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
524when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
525
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200526When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
527menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
528
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200529Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
530(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
531
532":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
533various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100534
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200535Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200536(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
537
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200538Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
539Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
540
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200541Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
542Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200543Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
544Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200545
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100546Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
547Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
548https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
549
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200550VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
551instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
552
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100553Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200554Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100555
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200556Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200557command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100558
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100559Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
560
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100561Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
562highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100563
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200564The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
565For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
566
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100567Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200568possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100569
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100570Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
571
572Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200573
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200574Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
575
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100576Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
577
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200578With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
5792013 Sep 5)
580
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100581Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100582Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100583
584Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
5853. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
586
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200587/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
588
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01005897 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
590 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
591 "lucida_console:h8").
592Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
593
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200594:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
595
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200596Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100597names.
598(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100599Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200600
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200601Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200602With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200603
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100604Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
605(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
606
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200607Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
608
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200609Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
610
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100611When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
612(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
613
614Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
615Dec 13.
616
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100617Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
618buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
619
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200620GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
621(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
622
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100623Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
624registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
625
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200626Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
627
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200628The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
629(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
630Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
631
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200632The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
633- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
634- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
635
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100636Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
637Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
638reliably?
639
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200640Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
641That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
642Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
64317)
644Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200645Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200646
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100647Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
648(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
649
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100650Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
651(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
652
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02006538 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
654 defined.
655Issue 28.
656
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200657Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
6582013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100659
660Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
661
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200662Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
6635)
664
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200665Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
666carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
667
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200668Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
669highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
670
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100671Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200672
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200673Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200674May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
675May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200676May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200677
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200678Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020067928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200680
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200681Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
682optional. (2013 Jul 12)
683
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200684Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
685
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100686Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
687- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
688- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
689 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
690- make it possible to do a silent install, see
691 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
692 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
693- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
694- The one on Issue 279.
695Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
696How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
697
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100698Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
699(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
700
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100701Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
702
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100703Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100704
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200705- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
706 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
707Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200708
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200709Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200710
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200711In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
712process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
713a reboot.
714
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100715Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100716Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
717Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100718Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100719
720Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
721cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
722
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100723patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
724
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100725Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
726I can't reproduce it.
727
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100728Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
729not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100730
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200731Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
732Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
733
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200734Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
735Or use expand('<sid>')?
736
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100737Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
738
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100739Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100740
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200741Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
742signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
743
744Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
745
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100746Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
747
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100748b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
7497)
750
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200751Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
752compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
753
754Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
755Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
756vim.bindeval().
757
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200758Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
7592012 Aug 4)
760
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100761Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
762(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
763
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100764Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
765But use Gnome instead of GTK?
766
767Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
768Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
769Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200770
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200771Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
772loading all files.
773
774Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
775line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
776after starting up?
777
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02007788 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
779 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
780
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200781MS-Windows resizing problems:
782- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
783 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
784- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
785 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
786 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100787
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200788'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200789
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200790Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200791of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
792
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200793Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
794
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100795Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200796Also question if examples are correct.
797
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200798The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
799Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
800But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200801
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200802Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
803Aug 16)
804
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100805When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
806is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
807
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200808xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
809enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
810
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100811URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100812- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100813- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
814 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
815
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200816Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
817(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
818Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
819
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200820Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200821New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200822
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100823When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
824for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
825Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100826
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200827Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
828
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200829Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
83024)
831
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200832Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
833
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100834Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
835
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200836Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
837Apr 18)
838
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200839Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
840And one for gui_x11.txt.
841
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100842":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
843finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
844Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
845
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200846Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
847
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100848Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
849
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200850Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
851they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
852
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100853Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
854
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100855Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
856Nov 20)
857
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200858Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200859Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200860
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100861`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100862(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
863
864Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
865
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100866BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
867Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
868
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100869Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
870Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
871
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100872Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
873
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200874Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
875
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200876On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
8772012 Jun 19)
878
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200879'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
880'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
881Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200882Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200883
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200884With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
885(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
886need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
887
888Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
889only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
89021, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
891
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100892The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
893support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
894
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200895'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
896highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
897
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100898Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
899New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
900
901Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
902Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
903
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100904Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
905Jan 19)
906
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100907Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
908discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
909meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200910
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200911"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100912Oct 26)
913
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200914Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
915
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200916With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
917register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200918
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200919Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
920
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200921When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
922(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
923
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100924Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
925Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
926
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200927Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
928doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
929Jun 17)
930
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100931When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
932then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
933from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
934
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200935Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
936":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
93715)
938
939Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
940
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200941BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
942cleared. See test64.
943
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200944Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
945
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200946Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200947effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200948Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
949
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200950On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
95164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
952right type.
953
954string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
955(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
956
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200957Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
958
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200959When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
960(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200961When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
962following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
963(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200964
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200965When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
966doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
967
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100968Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
969
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009707 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
971Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
972
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200973maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
974mapping, how to restore the script ID?
975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200976Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
977(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
978
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200979When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
980indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
981the help file.
982
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200983After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
984Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
985
986Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
987
988"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
989
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200990Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
991May 24) Update May 26.
992
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100993Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
994
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200995Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200996
997Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
9982010 Dec 18)
999
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001000With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1001number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1002Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1003
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001004Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1005Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1006
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020010078 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1008Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1009
10108 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
1011 after typing something.
1012Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
1013function that resets did_cursorhold.
1014Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
1015
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001016Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1017one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1018the match scrolls into view.
1019
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020010207 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1021Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1022Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1023
10249 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1025 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1026Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1027
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001028Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1029Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1030
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001031In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1032or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1033sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1034
1035GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1036doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1037
1038GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1039
1040Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1041Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1042
1043Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1044
10457.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1046there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1047do?
1048
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001049Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
105022)
1051
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001052New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1053- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001054- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001055 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1056
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001057"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
10582011 Feb 27)
1059
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001060Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1061^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1062
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001063'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
1064way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
1065
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001066When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1067exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
10689) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1069
1070g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1071the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1072
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001073Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1074crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1075
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001076Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1077number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1078
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001079Regexp engine performance:
1080- Profiling:
1081 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1082 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1083 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1084 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1085 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1086 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1087- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1088- Performance tests:
1089 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1090 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1091 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1092 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1093 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1094 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1095 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1096 'hlsearch'.
1097 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1098 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1099 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1100 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1101
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001102Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1103names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1104Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1105the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1106
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001107Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1108Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1109
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001110'beval' option should be global-local.
1111
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001112Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001113
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001114setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001115
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020011167 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1117 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1118 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1119
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001120With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
11212010 Oct 24)
1122
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001123Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1124Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1125
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001126Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1127
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001128When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1129Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1130
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001131":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1132
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001133'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1134
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001135C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1136checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1137Issue 46.
1138
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001139Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1140
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001141Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1142gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1143
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001144":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1145accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1146
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001147Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1148setwinvar().
1149
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001150Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1151
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001152When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1153(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1154
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001155When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1156instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1157
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001158Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1159Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1160Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001161
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001162Use json format for new items in .viminfo:
1163 |["info","any info"]
1164 |["text","text text text"
1165 |"continuation line"]
1166 |["hist",242342342,{"arg":"value"}]
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001167
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001168Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1169back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1170
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001171Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001172Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1173
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001174CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1175the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1176FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1177
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001178Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1179Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1180
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001181Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1182Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1183
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001184I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1185Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1186an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001187
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001188Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1189
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001190Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1191non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001192
1193iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1194Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1195or replace with a character and continue?
1196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001197Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1198Requires configure check for localtime().
1199Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1200
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001201Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1202Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1203
1204Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1205
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001206Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1207Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1208path.
1209
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001210Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001211Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001212
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001213'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1214
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001215":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1216like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1217
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001218Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1219https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001220
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001221Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
12222010 Nov 5)
1223
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001224Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1225Jan 7)
1226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001227Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1228Only with "vim -u NONE".
1229
1230Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1231
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001232With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1233entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1234Feb 12)
1235
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001236Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1237characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1238
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001239Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1240
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001241Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1242 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1243
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001244Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1245
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001246When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1247Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1248
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001249When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1250not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1251string value.
1252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001253Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1254
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001255For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001256line argument -noregister.
1257
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001258When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1259missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1260
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001261When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1262doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001263
1264Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1265(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1266Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1267There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1268Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1269
1270":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1271highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1272to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1273
1274Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1275Probably needs a bit of work.
1276
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001277Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1278Added test, updates, June 23.
1279Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1280With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1281Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1282
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001283List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001284Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1285
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001286Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1287
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001288Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1289
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001290Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1291Sep 1)
1292
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001293Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1294
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001295Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1296on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1297
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001298Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
12992009 Jul 18)
1300
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001301Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1302window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1303Needs more work.
1304
1305Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001307When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1308few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1309
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001310'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001311(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1312
1313Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1314J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1315
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001316When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1317for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1318
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001319Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1320
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001321Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001323When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1324
1325":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1326because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1327ex_docmd.c.
1328
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001329Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001330Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1331
1332string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1333for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1334
1335Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1336
1337'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
133820)
1339
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001340Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
13412009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1342
1343Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1344
1345Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1346SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1347
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001348When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1349indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1350(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1351
1352Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1353are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1354Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1355Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1356that doesn't have a window.
1357
1358When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1359doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1360
1361getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1362displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1363
1364":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1365
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001366There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1367was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1368perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1369
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001370Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1371
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001372Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1373file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1374system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1375
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001376Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1377command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1378
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001379Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1380does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1381
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001382opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1383height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001384very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001385
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001386Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1387(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1388
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001389Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001390(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1391
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001392Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1393char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1394
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001395Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1396Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1397
1398This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1399
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001400A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001402Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1403messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1404es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
14052009 Jan 26)
1406
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001407When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001408in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1409Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001411Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1412a modeline.
1413
1414Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1415Sergey Khorev)
1416
1417Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1418part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001419
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001420netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1421number to be below last visible line.
1422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001423After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1424correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1425
1426Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1427(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1428
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001429shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001430'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1431Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1432unix-like shell?
1433
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001434Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1435register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1436(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001438Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1439Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1440
1441Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1442make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001444When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1445still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1446
1447"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1448(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1449
1450Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1451
1452"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1453
1454Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1455that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1456ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1457Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1458
1459Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001460Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001461
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001462MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1463doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1464probably causes this.
1465
1466'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020014672009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001468
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001469Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010014702013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001471
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001472Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1473 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1474 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1475(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1476
1477Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1478":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1479option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1480is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001481
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001482":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1483first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001484Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001486Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1487laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1488Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001489
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001490Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1491anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1492
1493On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1494doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1495Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1496Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1497
1498":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1499
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001500When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1501'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1502fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1503the buffer to be unmodified.
1504Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1505another look at it.
1506
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001507c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1508(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001510You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1511error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1512Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1513at the other match for 0xBF.
1514
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001515When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1516argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1517
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001518Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1519backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1520
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001521When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1522line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1523
1524Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1525position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001527After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1528(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001529command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001530
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001531":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1532Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1533
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001534Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1535Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1536
1537When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1538either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1539put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1540
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001541Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1542Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1543Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1544Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1545(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001547Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1548
1549ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001550
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001551Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1552(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1553escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1554an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001555This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1556July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001557Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1558work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1559
1560When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
156131)
1562
1563Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1564work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1565Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001566
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001567Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
1568multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
1569(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
1570
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001571Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
15722008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001573Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001574
1575Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1576Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1577'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1578
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001579Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1580Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001582Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1583Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1584
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020015858 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1586 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1587 several).
1588 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1589 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1590 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1591Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1592
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001593Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1594
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001595The utf class table is missing some entries:
1596 0x2212, minus sign
1597 0x2217, star
1598 0x2500, bar
1599 0x26ab, circle
1600
1601Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1602line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1603
1604GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1605Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001607Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1608try the Cocoa version.
1609
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001610Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1611changed or the window is resized.
1612
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001613GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1614the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1615
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001616Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1617Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001618
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001619Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
16201) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1621
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001622C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1623with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1624Try to reproduce at work.
1625
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001626Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1627Is there a way to list all the files first?
1628
1629When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1630result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
163116)
1632
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001633Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1634(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1635
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001636Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1637Await response to question to make the register writable.
1638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001639src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1640remark why.
1641
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001642Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
16431)
1644
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001645In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1646each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1647
1648try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1649
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001650try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001652":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1653Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1654
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001655Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1656
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001657Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1658Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001660Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1661Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1662Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001663
1664C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1665(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1666
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001667When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1668and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1669
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001670Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1671 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1672
1673New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1674
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001675":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1676a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001678'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1679Likonen, March 19)
1680
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001681Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1682other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1683
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001684The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1685appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1686matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1687
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001688When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1689character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1690'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1691(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001693Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1694Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001695
1696More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1697
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001698Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1699http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1700
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001701Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1702back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1703Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001704
1705Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1706No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1707
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001708Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1709terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001710
1711Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001713Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1714but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1715that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001716
1717When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001719Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1720Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1721
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001722Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1723popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1724size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1725This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1726
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001727Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1728a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1729isn't right?
1730
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001731When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1732it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1733
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001734Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1735then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1736files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001737Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1738indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1739":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001740in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1741quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001742Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001743
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001744When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1745parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1746neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1747particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1748Jun 3)
1749However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1750the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001751
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001752A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1753Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1754
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001755Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1756Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1757
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001758Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1759switch list is noticed:
1760 switch (i)
1761 {
1762 case 1:
1763 foobar:
1764 }
1765
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001766Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1767
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001768Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1769with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1770go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1771moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1772
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001773Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
177464-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1775
1776Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1777Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1778Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1779argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1780(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1781
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001782Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1783(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1784
1785Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1786makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1787.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1788 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1789
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001790Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
17912007 Feb 8)
1792
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001793Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1794set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001795
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001796Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1797
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001798Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1799Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1800New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1801patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1802
1803Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1804Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001806Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1807
1808Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
18092007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001810Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001811
1812Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001813label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1814
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001815Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1816with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1817Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001819Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1820pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001821Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001822
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001823Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1824
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001825Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1826Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1827only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1828
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001829Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1830Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001831Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001832properly?
1833
1834Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
18352007 Jun 21)
1836
1837When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1838Jun 18)
1839
1840If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1841
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001842Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1843windows. (Adam George)
1844
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001845F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1846modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1847K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001848
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001849UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1850to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1851
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001852In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1853the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001855C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001857":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1858
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001859When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001860error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001861
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001862Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1863use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1864
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001865Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1866if_ruby.c.
1867
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001868":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1869
1870The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1871it in keep_msg?
1872
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001873Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001874error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001875name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1876
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001877Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1878longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001879
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001880Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1881Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1882Also for ":w" without a file name.
1883The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001884
1885"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1886Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1887
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001888VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1889directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1890(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1891
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001892VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1893
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001894input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1895name?
1896
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001897Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001899When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1900(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1901Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1902will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1903
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001904gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1905This also fails with --remote.
1906
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001907When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
19082008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1909all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1910
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001911aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1912
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001913When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1914(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001916Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1917the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1918
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001919GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1920
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001921Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1922superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1923
1924Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1925character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001927Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1928Jun 5)
1929
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001930Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
19312008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1932Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1933
1934In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1935but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1936Jul 22)
1937
1938There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1939
1940Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1941":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1942somehow? Or use a new function.
1943
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001944Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001946Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1947moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1948that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001950The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1951
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001952When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001953cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1954the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1955
1956Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1957has been created.
1958
1959Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1960shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1961fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1962background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1963A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001964
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001965These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1966 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1967 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1968 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1969
1970Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1971partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1972
1973In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1974buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1975reload it then?
1976
1977New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1978previous version.
1979
1980For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1981
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001982Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1983only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1984
1985Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1986tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1987doesn't contain other directories.
1988
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001989Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1990Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1991
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001992Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1993 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1994 set background=dark
1995This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1996color is, not reset it.
1997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001998Linux distributions:
1999- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2000 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2001 xfree-xterm".
2002- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2003
2004Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2005start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2006show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2007middle?
2008
2009When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002010(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002011connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
2012dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
2013
2014Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2015
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002016When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2017current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2018the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002020When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2021Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002023Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2024 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2025 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2026 - getting colors in xterm
2027 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2028
2029Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2030Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2031
2032Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2033
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002034A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2035Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2036
2037Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2038Dara, 2006 June 21)
2039
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002040Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2041number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2042
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002043After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2044the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2045
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002046Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002047
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002048Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
2049copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
2050error and stop using the connection to the server.
2051
2052Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2053Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2054
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002055Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010020562008 Sep 29)
2057
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002058In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2059check the result of has("patch13").
2060
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002061Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2062restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2063
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002064Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2065and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2066
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002067Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2068put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2069
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002070Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2071resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2072
2073In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2074can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2075
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002076GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2077maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2078doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002079Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2080visible.
2081
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002082When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2083differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002084
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002085The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2086be only one.
2087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002088"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
2089script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
2090
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002091It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
2092the function name before resolving it to a number?
2093 let d = {}
2094 fun! d.foo()
2095 echo "here"
2096 endfun
2097 call d.foo(9)
2098
2099Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
2100only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002101Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
2102used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
2103
2104Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
2105output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
2106Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
2107
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002108Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002109"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2110name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2111Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002112
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002113printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
2114perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
2115
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002116Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2117(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2118
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002119Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2120as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2121
2122Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2123Jan 1)
2124
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002125Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
212623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002127
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002128":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2129tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2130Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002131
2132xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
2133buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
2134Xterm 224 supports it!
2135
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002136When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2137text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2138latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2139
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002140Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2141
2142Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2143no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2144
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002145In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2146VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
21472007 Oct 16)
2148
2149TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2150Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2151
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002152Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002153
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002154When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2155typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2156Sep 3, 11)
2157
2158When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2159respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2160the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2161what happens for the GUI.
2162
2163X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2164pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2165clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2166Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2167Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2168clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2171this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2172
2173When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2174Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2175restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2176
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002177Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
21782010 Jun 30)
2179
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002180Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2181'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2182(Kartik Agaram)
2183
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002184
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002185Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002186- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2187 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2188- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2189 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2190 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2191- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2192 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2193 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002194- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2195- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002196
2197
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002198More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002199- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2200 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002201- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2202- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2203 21)
2204- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2205 patch May 10)
2206- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2207 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2208- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2209 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2210- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2211- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2212- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2213 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2214 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002215- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002216- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2217 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2218- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2219 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2220- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2221 21)
2222- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2223 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2224- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2225 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2227 Sep 13)
2228- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002229 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002230- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2231 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2232 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2233 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2234 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002235- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002236
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002237Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000022389 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2239 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2240 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2241 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2242 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2243 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2244 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2245 (Alan Schmitt)
2246 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002247 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2248 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000022499 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002250 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000022518 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022528 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002253 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022547 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2255 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2256 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022578 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002258 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020022597 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002260 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2261- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2262 for multi-byte characters.
2263- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2264- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2265 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2266 been given values.
2267 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
22688 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002269 with an ESC sequence.
2270 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2271 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2272 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022737 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2274 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2275- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2276 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2277 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
22788 Add functions:
2279 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2280 Update 2004 Sep 10
2281 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2282 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002283 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002284 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2285 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2286 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2287 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2288 (2003 May 13)
2289 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2290 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002291 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2292 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002293 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2294 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2295 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022967 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2297 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2298- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2299 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
23007 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2301 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000023028 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2303 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000023047 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
23058 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2306 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
23077 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2308 Kotchan has a patch for it)
23098 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2310 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2311 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
23127 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2313- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2314 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2315 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002316- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2317 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2318- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2319
2320
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002321Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002322- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2323 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023248 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2325 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2326 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2327 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2328 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2329 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023308 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2331 make Vim exit.
23327 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2333 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2334 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
23358 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2336 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2337 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
23386 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2339 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2340 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
23418 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2342 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2343 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2344 names in one buffer???
2345 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2346 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2347 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
23487 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2349 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2350 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002351 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2352 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023537 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2354 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
23557 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
23567 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
23577 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2358 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
23597 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2360 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2361 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2362 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
23637 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
23647 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
23657 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2366 to the match with the tag? Option?
23677 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
23687 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2369 (Sayre).
23707 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2371 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023727 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2373 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2374 match. Nvi can do it too.
23757 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2376 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2377 line 1\ line 2\\
2378 line 2\ line 3\\
2379 . line4/
23806 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2381 the way the shell is started?
23826 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2383 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2384
2385
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002386GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000023879 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023888 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2389 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2390 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000023918 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2392 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2393 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023949 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2395 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2396 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2397 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002398- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2399 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2400 blocked for now.
2401
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002402
2403Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002404- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2405 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024068 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2407 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
24088 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2409 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2410 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
24118 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2412 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024136 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2414 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000024158 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2416 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2417 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024187 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2419 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2420 to use an opaque background in most places?
24218 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2422 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2423 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024247 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2425 2004 May 9)
24268 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2427 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2428 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2429 MS-Windows 98?
2430 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2431 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2432 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2433 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024348 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2435 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2436 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2437 doesn't work properly.
24388 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2439 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2440 appears in the right position. (Webb)
24419 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2442 button doesn't give popup menu.
2443 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2444 selection.
2445 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2446 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2447 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
24488 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2449 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2450 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2451 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
24528 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2453 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2454 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024557 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2456 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2457 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
24587 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2459 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002460 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024617 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2462 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024636 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
24648 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2465 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2466 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
24678 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2468 know which keyboard is being used?
24697 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2470 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2471 area (Koloseike).
24728 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2473 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2474 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2475 the font name).
2476
2477
2478Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000024796 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2480 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2481 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2482 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2483 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024849 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2485 required and it's missing?
24868 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2487 wrong.
24889 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2489 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000024909 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002491 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2492 flag.
24938 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2494 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2495 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
24968 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
24976 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2498 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2499 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2500 the tooltips work though...
25017 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2502 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
25038 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2504 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2505 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2506
2507
2508Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010025099 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2510 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025119 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2512 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2513 through files.
25147 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2515 read long file names. (Schroeder)
25164 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2517 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2518 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2519 problem during a refresh.
25205 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2521 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2522 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2523 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2524 colors as it should.
2525 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2526 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2527
2528
2529Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002530- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025317 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2532 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025338 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2534 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2535 (Phillipps)
2536
2537
2538GUI:
25399 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2540 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
25419 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002542 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002543 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
25449 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2545 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
25468 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2547 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
25488 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2549 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2550 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
25518 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2552 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2553 of where it is processing the output.
2554 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
25558 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2556 doesn't work.
25578 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000025588 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2559 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2560 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020025618 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025628 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2563 browse().
25648 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2565 use that code? Or use console dialog.
25668 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2567 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000025687 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2569 - regexp on/off
2570 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2571 when all buffers/directory is used:
2572 - filter for file name
2573 when directory is used:
2574 - subdirectory on/off
2575 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025768 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2577 to avoid problems.
25788 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2579 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2580 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
25818 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2582 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2583 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
25848 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2585 up. Set erase character somehow?
25868 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2587 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2588 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2589 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
25908 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
25917 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2592 visible.
25937 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2594 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
25957 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2596 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
25978 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2598 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
25998 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2600 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2601 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2602 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2603- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
26044 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2605 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2606 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2607
2608
2609MSDOS/DJGPP:
26109 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2611 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2612 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
26138 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2614 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
26159 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002616 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2617 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026189 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2619 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2620 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2621 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
26229 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2623 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2624 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2625 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2626 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2627 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2628 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2629 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2630 key code. Use a translation table?
26319 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2632 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
26338 Use DJGPP 2.03.
26348 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2635 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
26368 setlocale() is bogus.
26378 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2638 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2639 Windows 95 system!
26408 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026417 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002642 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
26437 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2644 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2645 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
26468 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2647 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
26487 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2649 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2650 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2651 "[New file]".
26527 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2653 that is supported?
26548 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
26558 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2656 Briscoe)
2657
2658
2659MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
26608 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2661 gen_expand_wildcards().
26628 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2663 Wagner.
26648 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
26658 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2666 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000026678 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2668 a good fallback, thus use:
2669 $HOME
2670 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2671 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2672 $USERPROFILE
2673 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2674 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2675 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2676 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026778 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2678 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
26798 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2680 Should work like in the GUI version.
26818 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2682 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
26838 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2684 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
26858 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2686 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2687 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026888 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2689 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2690 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2691
2692
2693Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020026948 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002695 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2696 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
26978 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2698 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2699
2700
2701Win32 console:
27029 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2703 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2704 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2705 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2706 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2707 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2708 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2709 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2710 and the file is not saved.
2711 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2712 long name.
27138 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2714 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
27157 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2716 besides the console.
27178 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
27189 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2719 <C-S-i>?
27209 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2721 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
27228 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2723 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027247 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2725 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2726 exiting.
2727
2728
2729Amiga:
27308 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2731 sequences.
27329 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2733 backslashes in result.
27348 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2735 all options, using white space separation.
2736
2737
2738Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002739- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027407 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2741 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2742 (Jack)
2743 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027448 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2745 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027468 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
27478 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
27489 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2749 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027509 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002751
2752
2753"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002754- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2755 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002756- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2757 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002758- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2759 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2760 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2761 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2762 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2763 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2764 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000027659 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2766 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000027679 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002768 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2769 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027708 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2771 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2772 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002773 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027747 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2775 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
27768 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2777 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2778 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027797 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2780 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2782 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027838 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2784 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2785 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2786 using the horizontal scrollbar.
27877 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2788 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2789 invocations belong together.
27908 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2791 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
27928 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2793 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2794 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01002795 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000027968 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2797 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2798 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027998 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2800 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028017 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2802 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2803 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2804 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028057 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2806 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2807 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
28087 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2809 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2810 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
28117 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2812 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028137 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2814 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028159 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2816 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2817 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2818 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2819 script can be called.
28208 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2821 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2822 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028238 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2824 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000028258 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002826 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2827 configurable?
28288 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
28299 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2830 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2831 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028328 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2833 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028348 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2835 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028368 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2837 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028389 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2839 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2840 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028417 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028428 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2843 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2844 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000028458 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2846 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002847 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2848 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028498 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2850 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
28519 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2852 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2853 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002854 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028557 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2856 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028577 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2858 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2859 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2860 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028618 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002862 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2863 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2864 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2865 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002866 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2867 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002868 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002869 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002870 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2871 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2872 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2873 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2874 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
28758 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2876 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
28779 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2878 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2879 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028808 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2881 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
28828 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2883 in lines that don't extend into the block?
28848 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2885 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2886 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
28878 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2888 'linebreak'.
28898 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2890 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2891 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028929 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2893 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2894 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2895 'magic' in history. (Margo)
28969 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2897 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
28989 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2899 isn't updated).
29009 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
29019 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2902 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2903 cause another redraw, etc.
29048 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2905 must escape special characters in the pattern.
29068 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2907 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2908 ":w!!" for that.
2909 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2910 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002911 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029127 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2913 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2914 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2915 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2916 clipboard)
29177 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2918 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2919 Waggoner)
29208 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2921 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2922 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000029236 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2924 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2925 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2927 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
29288 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2929 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2930 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000029318 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029328 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2933 (e.g., ":w").
29348 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2935 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
29368 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2937 for ">>".
29388 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2939 script in do_cmdline().
29408 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2941 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2942 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2943 changes.
29448 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2945 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
29468 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2947 check for file marks. This can be slow.
29487 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2949 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2950 needed.
2951 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
29528 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2953 to skip catch_signals()?
29549 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2955 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2956 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2957 text?
29588 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2959 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
29608 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2961 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
29629 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2963 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2964 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2965 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2966 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
29677 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2968 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2969 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2970 in the list?
29718 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2972 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2973 instead of on button down.
29748 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
29759 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2976 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002977 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2978 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029798 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2980 character is typed.
29818 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2982 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
29838 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2984 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
29858 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2986 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2987 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2988 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2989 cygwin bash.
29907 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2991 Remember flags for backreferences.
29927 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2993 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
29947 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2995 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
29968 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2997 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
29987 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2999 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030007 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3001 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3002 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
30037 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3004 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
30058 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3006 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3007 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
30087 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3009 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003010
3011
3012I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
30139 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3014 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3015 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003016
3017
3018Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003019- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3020 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3021 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003022- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3023 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3024 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3025 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3026 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3027 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003028 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003029- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3030 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003031 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003032 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3033 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3034 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003035- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3036 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3037 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3038 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3039 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3040- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3041 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3042 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3043- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3044 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003045- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003046- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3047 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3048 character gets the highlighting.
3049- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3050 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3051- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3052 (Jennings)
3053- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3054- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3055 errors. How do we get the rest?
3056- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003057- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003058 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
3059- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
3060 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
3061 first?
3062- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
3063 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
3064- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3065 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3066 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3067- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3068 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3069 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3070 (Benzinger).
3071- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3072 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3073 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3074- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3075 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3076- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3077 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3078- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3079 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3080 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3081 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3082 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3083 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3084- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3085 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3086 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003087- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3088 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3089 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003090- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3091 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3092 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3093- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3094 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3095- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3096 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003097- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3098 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3099- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3100 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3101 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3102 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3103 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3104- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3105 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3106 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3107- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3108 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3109 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003110- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3111 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 +00003112- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3113 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3114 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3115 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3116 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3117- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3118 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3119
3120--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3121 *extensions-improvements*
3122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003123Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3124- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3125 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3126 calling a function.
3127 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3128 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003129- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3130 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3131- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3132 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3133 http://clewn.sf.net.
3134 And the idevim plugin/script.
3135 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3136 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3137 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3138 other window.
3139 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3140 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3141 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3142 in terminal mode.
3143- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3144 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3145 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3146 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3147 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3148 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003149 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003150- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3151 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3152 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003153- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3154 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003155- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3156 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3157 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031588 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3159 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3160 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3161 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003162- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3163 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003164
3165
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003166Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031678 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3168 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031698 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3170 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000031718 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3172 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031738 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031747 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
31759 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3176 - change to cursor position and curswant
3177 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3178 - how it works for folded lines
3179 - how it works with multi-byte characters
31809 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3181 work too.
31828 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3183 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3184 text.
31858 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
31867 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3187 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
31887 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3189 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003190 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003191- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3192
3193
3194Help:
3195- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3196 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3197- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3198 to the other matches.
3199- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3200- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3201- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3202 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3203 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3204 default contents.
3205- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3206 height for the help window (and other windows).
3207- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3208- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3209- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3210
3211
3212User Friendlier:
32138 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3214 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3215 Briscoe)
32168 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
32178 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3218 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3219 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
32208 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3221 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3222- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3223 ":mkplugin <file>"?
32248 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3225 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3226 'runtimepath'.
3227 " Vim plugin
3228 <main plugin code>
3229 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3230 <plugin docs>
3231- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
32329 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3233 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3234 item?).
3235 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032368 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
32377 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000032387 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3239 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3240 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000032418 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3242 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3243 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3244 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003245
3246
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003247Tab pages:
32489 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032497 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3250 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032518 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000032528 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032537 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032547 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003255 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032567 Add local variables for each tab page?
32578 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3258 tab pages.
32597 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032607 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3261 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003262
3263
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003264Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003265- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3266 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3267- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3268 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3269 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3270- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3271 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003272- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3273 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3274 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003275- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3276 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3277 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003278- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3279 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003280- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003281 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3282 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000032838 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3284 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
32858 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3286 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
32878 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3288 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003289 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003290 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3291 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3292 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3293 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003294- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3295 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003296- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003297- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3298 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003299- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003300 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003301- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003302 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003303- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3304 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003305- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3306 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3307- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003308 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003309 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3310 in the affix file separately.
3311 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003312 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003313 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3314 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3315 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3316- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3317 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3318 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3319 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3320 Alternative:
3321 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3322 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3323 affix which is required.
3324- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003325 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003326- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3327 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3328 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003329- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3330 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003331- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3332 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3333- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033348 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3335 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3336 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3337 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003338- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3339 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3340 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3341 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033428 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3343 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033448 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
33458 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3346 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033477 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
33488 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3349 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3350 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3351 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003352
3353
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003354Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020033559 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3356 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033579 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3358 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003359 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033608 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3361 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3362 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003363 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3364 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033657 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3366 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3367 location.
3368
3369
3370Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003371 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3372 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033738 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3374 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000033758 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033769 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3377 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033788 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3379 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3380 user aware of this?
33818 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3382 commands skip over a closed fold.
33838 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
33848 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033857 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003386- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3387 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3388 missing line goes unnoticed.
3389 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003390- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3391 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3392 smoother?
3393- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3394 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003395- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3396 file can contain:
3397 args version.c main.c
3398 edit version.c
3399 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003400- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003401- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3402 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003403- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3404 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003405- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3406 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003407- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000034088 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003409 searches.
3410
3411
3412Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003413- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3414 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3415 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3416 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034179 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3418 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3419 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3420 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020034219 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3422 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3423 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034248 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3425 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3426 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3427 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3428 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3429 item.
34308 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003431 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3432 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034338 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3434 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003435 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003436 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034378 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3438 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034398 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3440 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3441 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034427 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3443 so that the user can fix the problem.
34448 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3445 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034469 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
34478 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034488 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
34498 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034507 Searching and composing characters:
3451 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003452 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3453 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034548 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
34558 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
34568 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3457 characters.
34588 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
34598 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3460 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
34617 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3462 'display' option to specify this.
34637 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3464 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3465- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3466 fontselector somehow.
3467- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3468 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3469- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3470 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3471- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3472 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3473 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3474 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3475 if a font exists?
3476- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003477 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003478- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3479 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
34807 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3481 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003482- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3483 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3484 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3485 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003486- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3487 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3488 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3489- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3490 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3491 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3492 But it's very complicated...
3493
3494
3495Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000034967 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003497- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3498- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3499 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003500- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3501 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003502- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3503- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3504 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003505- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3506 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003507- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3508 units as for the margins.
3509- Support right-to-left text?
35108 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3511 color.
3512
3513
3514Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035158 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3516 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
35178 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3518 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
35198 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3520 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000035217 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3522 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035238 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3524 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3525 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035267 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3527 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3528 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035298 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
35309 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3531 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035327 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3533 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000035347 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3535 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035368 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3537 change this for each release.
35388 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3539 pattern, but not in the body.
35408 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3541 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3542 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035438 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010035448 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003545 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3546 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035478 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3548 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
35498 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3550 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003551 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035528 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3553 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3554 used.
35558 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3556 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
35578 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3558 re-insert the [] if possible.
35598 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3560 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035618 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3562 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3563 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3564 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3565 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035668 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3567 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
35688 Support for deleting syntax items:
3569 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3570 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3571 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
35728 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3573 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3574 a '<'. (Fleiner)
35757 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3576 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3577 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
35787 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3579 detected.
35808 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003581 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035828 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3583 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035848 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
35858 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
35867 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3587 ":mkvimrc".
35888 Improve c.vim:
3589 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3590 "c_strict_ansi".
3591 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
35928 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3593 current line while in Insert mode.
35948 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3595 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
35968 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3597 display position.
35988 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3599 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3600 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
36018 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3602 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3603 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036048 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3605 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3606 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036077 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3608 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3609 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3610 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3611 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036127 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3613 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3614 E.g. for this html:
3615 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036167 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
36177 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3618 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036198 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
36208 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036217 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3622 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3623 completion?
36248 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3625 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
36267 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3627 select one of the sets.
36288 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3629 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3630 2, etc.
36318 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3632 highlighting (for "." command).
36338 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3634 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
36358 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
36367 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3637 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
36386 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3639 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3640- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3641 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3642- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003643- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3644 (for comment blocks).
3645- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3646 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3647 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3648 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3649 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3650 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3651 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3652 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3653 (Campbell)
3654 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3655 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
36567 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3657 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
36587 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3659 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3660 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
36617 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3662 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3663 messages. And external commands?
36648 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3665 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
36667 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3667 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3668
3669
3670Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036718 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3672 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003673 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036747 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3675 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3676 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3678 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003679- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3680 2006 Dec 11.
3681- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020036828 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3683 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3684 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3685 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3686 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3687 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000036887 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3689 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036908 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
36918 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3692 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3693 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3694 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3695 nested packages?
3696 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3697 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3698 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036997 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3700 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3701 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3702 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3703 autocommand.
3704 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3705 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3706 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3707 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037087 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3709 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037106 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3711 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003713 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3714 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3715 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3716 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3717 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3718 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3719 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003720 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3721 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3722 3 2002
3723 Only add this when also implemented for
3724 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3725 be used.
3726 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003727 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3728 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3729 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3730 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3731 File.Open..." argument.
3732 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3733 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3734 with properties instead.
3735 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3736 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3737 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003738 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003739 crypt() encrypt string
3740 decrypt() decrypt string
3741 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3742 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003743 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003744 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003745 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003746 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003747 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003748 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3749 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003750 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3751 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003753 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3754 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003755 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3756 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3757 to allow the library to execute a command or
3758 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037597 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3760 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
37618 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3762 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037638 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3764 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037658 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037667 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3767 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
37686 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037698 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3770 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037718 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3772 option or environment variable.
37738 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037748 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003775 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037767 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3777 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037788 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3779 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
37808 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
37818 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3782 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3783 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3784 charwise({expr}).
37857 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3786 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3787 buffer for this?
3788 result = scratch(string, command)
3789 result = apply(string, command)
3790 result = execute(string, command)
3791 "command" would use <> notation.
3792 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
37937 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003794
3795
3796Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000037976 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3798 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3799 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3800 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3801 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3802 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3803 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003804
3805
3806Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038077 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3808 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038097 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3810 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3811 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3812 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038138 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3814 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3815 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3816 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003817 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038188 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3819 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3820 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038218 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
38229 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
38238 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
38247 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3825 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
38268 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3827 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3828 when starting up in a color terminal.
38298 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3830 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038318 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3832 function be improved?
38338 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3834 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3835 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3836 this be improved?
38378 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3838 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038397 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3840 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038417 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3842 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
38437 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3844 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020038457 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038467 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3847 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3848 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3849 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3850 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3851 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3852 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038538 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3854 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3855 using strcmp() too often?
38567 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3857 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3858 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3859 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3860 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3861 the two blocks to the memfile block.
38627 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3863 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3864 with an argument that can be messed with.
3865 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3866 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
38677 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3868- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
38698 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3870 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3871- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3872 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3873- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3874- Do profiling on:
3875 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3876 - 1000ii<Esc>
3877 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3878 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3879 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3880 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3881 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3882 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003883 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038847 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3885 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3886 changed).
3887 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3888 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3889- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3890- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3891 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3892- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3893 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3894 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3895- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3896 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3897- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3898- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3899 cursor is right of the screen.
39008 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3901 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3902
3903
3904Code size:
39058 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3906- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3907 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
39088 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
39098 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3910 it.
39117 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3912 left out.
39138 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3914 can be removed.
39158 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3916
3917
3918Messages:
39198 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3920 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
39218 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3922 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
39238 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3924 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003925- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3926 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3927- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039288 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3929 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039309 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3931 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3932 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3933 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3934 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039358 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3936 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
39378 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3938 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3939 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3940 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3941 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3942 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003943- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003944 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039458 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3946 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3947 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3948 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3949 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3950 error messages, printing text, etc.
39518 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3952 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3953 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3954
3955
3956Screen updating:
39577 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3958 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3959 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3960- screen_line():
3961 - insert/delete character stuff.
3962 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3963- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3964 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3965- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3966 waiting for a character.
39678 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3968 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3969 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
39707 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003971
3972
3973Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020039748 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039756 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3976- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3977 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3978 windows.
39797 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3980 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3981 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3982- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3983 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3984 (Goldfarb)
3985- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3986 bound windows.
3987- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3988 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003989- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003990- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3991 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3992 of lines but not with a single line).
3993
3994
3995Autoconf:
39968 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
39978 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3998 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3999- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4000 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4001- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4002- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4003- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4004
4005
4006Perl interface:
40078 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040087 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
40097 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
40106 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4011
4012
4013Shared libraries:
40146 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4015 :libload internal-name libname
4016 :libunload internal-name
4017 :liblist
4018 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4019 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4020 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
40216 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4022
4023
4024Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000040259 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4026 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4027 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4028 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4029 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040308 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4031 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4032 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004033 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004034 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000040357 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4036 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4037 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
40398 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4040 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040417 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4042 window for each tag.
40437 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
40447 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4045 bottom" search message.
40467 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4047 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4048 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004049- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4050- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004051- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4052 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4053 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040547 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4055 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4056 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4057 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
40587 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4059 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4060 :tagargs clear
4061 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4062 matching).
40637 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4064 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4065 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4066 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
40677 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4068 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
40697 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4070 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4071 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004072
4073
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004074Win32 GUI:
40758 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4076 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040777 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4078 (Mike McCollister)
40798 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4080 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4081 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4082 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4083 common part of the path.
40848 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
40858 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4086 gettext and menus work.
40878 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4088 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004089 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004090 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
40918 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4092 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
40938 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4094 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
40957 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4096 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
40977 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
40987 <Esc> should close a dialog.
40997 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4100 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4101 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4102 prompts.
41037 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4104 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4105 the file added into an already running Vim.
41067 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4107 functions to find the window title.
4108
4109
4110GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020041118 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004112- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4113 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
41147 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
41158 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
41166 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
41178 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4118 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
41199 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
41207 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
41218 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4122 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
41238 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4124 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4125 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
41268 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4127 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
41288 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4129 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4130 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4131 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041327 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
41338 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4134 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000041357 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4136 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4137 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041388 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
41398 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004140 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041418 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
41428 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
41438 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4144 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4145 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
41467 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4147 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4148 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
41497 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4150 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
41517 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4152 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4153 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4154 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
41557 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4156 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
41577 Should support multi-column menus.
4158- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4159 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4160- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
41618 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
41626 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4163 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
41647 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
41657 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4166 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4167 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
41687 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
41698 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4170 name can be chosen free.
41717 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4172 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
41736 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4174 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4175 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4176 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4177 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4178 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4179 things.
41807 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4181 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041827 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004183 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004184- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4185 where it was started from?
41867 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4187
4188
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004189Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020041909 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4191 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004192- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041938 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4194 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4195 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4196 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
41978 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4198 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000041997 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4200 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4201 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4202 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042037 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042048 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4205 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4207 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4208 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042097 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4210 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4211 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042128 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4213 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4214 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042158 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4216 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042178 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042186 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4219 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042207 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042217 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004222 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4223 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4224 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042255 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4226 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4227 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
42287 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4229 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4230 file.
42318 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4232 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4233 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004234- Add events to autocommands:
4235 Error - When an error happens
4236 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004237 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004238 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4239 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004240 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004241 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004242 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4243 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004244 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004245 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004246 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4247 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4248 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4249 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004250 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4252 the char.
4253 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4254 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4255 file from CVS).
4256 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4257 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4258 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4259 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4260 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4261 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004262 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4263 changes.
4264 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4265 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004266- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004267 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004268 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004269 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4270 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4271 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4272 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4273 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4274
4275
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004276Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004277- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4278 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004279- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4280 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4281 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4282 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4283 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004284- Ideas from others:
4285 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4286 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4287 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4288 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4289 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4290 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4291 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4292 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4293 Uses Perl for C++.
4294 Uses ctags to find the info:
4295 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4296 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4297 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4298 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4299 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4300 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004301 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004302 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4303- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4304
4305
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004306Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004307- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000043087 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4309 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043107 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4311 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4312 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043138 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4314 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
43159 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4316 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4317 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043188 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4319 - ignore/match case
4320 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043218 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4322 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4323 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4324 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4325 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4326 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043278 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000043287 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4329 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4331 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4332 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4333 Should work for C++ and Java.
4334 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
43357 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
43367 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4337 instead of words.
43388 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
43398 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4340 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
43418 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4342 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004343- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4344 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004345- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4346 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4347 wildcards in the file name)?
4348- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4349- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4350- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4351 be in another file).
4352- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4353- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4354- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4355 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4356- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4357- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4358- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004359- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4360
4361
4362Command line editing:
43637 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4364 line.
43658 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4366 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4367 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4368- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4369 lines wraps to start of line).
4370- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4371 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4372 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4373 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4374 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4375 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4376 cmdwin does now already.
4377 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4378 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4379 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4380 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4381 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4382 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4383 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4384 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4385 Problems:
4386 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4387 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4388 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4389 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4390 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4391 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4392 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4393 character in first column?
4394 - Implementation ideas:
4395 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4396 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4397 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4398 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4399 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4400 Mode.
4401
4402
4403Command line completion:
44048 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
44058 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4406 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
44078 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4408 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044098 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4410 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044117 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4412 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004413- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4414- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4415 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044168 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4417 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
44187 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4419 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4420- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4421 identifiers (Webb).
44228 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4423 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
44247 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4425 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4426- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4427 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4428- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4429 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4430 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004431
4432
4433Command line history:
4434- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4435 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4436 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4437 completely resulted from one mapping.
4438- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4439 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4440
4441
4442Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000044439 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4444 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4445 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044468 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4447 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4448 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4449 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4450 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044518 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4452 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4453 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044547 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4455 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004456- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020044579 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044587 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4459 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4460- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4461 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4462 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4463 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4464 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4465 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4466- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4467 Normal mode.
4468- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4469 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4470 are used.
4471- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4472- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4473- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4474
4475
4476'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044779 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4478 char * veryLongName =
4479 "very long string"
4480 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044818 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044828 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4483 long_type foo =
4484 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044858 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4486 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004487 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044888 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4489 func(
4490 new String[] {
4491 "asdf",
4492 "asdf"
4493 }
4494 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044958 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4496 (Chow Loong Jin)
4497 namespace {
4498 int
4499 func(int arg) {
4500 }
4501 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045026 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4503 func( arg1
4504 , arg2
4505 , arg3
4506 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000045077 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004508 func(
4509 int x) // indent like "(4"
4510 {
4511 if (a
4512 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045139 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4514 if (a)
4515 {
4516 if (b)
4517 {
4518 // {
4519 }
4520 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004521 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4522 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4523 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004524- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004525 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
45267 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4527- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4528 line).
4529- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4530- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4531 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004532- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4533 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4534- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4535 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4536- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4537- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4538 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
45398 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4540 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4541 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4542- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4543- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4544 lines start with "\item".
4545- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4546 /* here is a comment that
4547 is just autoindented, and
4548 nothing else */
4549- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
45507 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4551 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4552 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004553 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004554
4555
4556Java:
45578 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4558 Odendahl?
45598 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4560 "[i" commands and friends.
4561- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4562 (Jason)
4563- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4564 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4565
4566
4567'comments':
45688 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4569 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4570 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4571 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004572 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4573 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045747 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4575 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
45767 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
45776 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4578 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4579 regexp is used.
45808 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4581 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4582
4583
4584Virtual edit:
45858 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045867 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4587
4588
4589Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045908 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045918 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000045928 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004593 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045948 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4595 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004596 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4597 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045988 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045997 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4600 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046018 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4602 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046038 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4604 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4605 the end of the line or before a ".".
46067 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4607 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
46087 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4609 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046106 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
46115 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4612 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4613 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4614 cursor is on.
4615
4616
4617Select mode:
46188 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4619 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
46207 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004621 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046227 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4623 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4624 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4625 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4626 normal_cmd().
4627 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4628 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4629
4630
4631Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020046328 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4633 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004634- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4635 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4636 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004637- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4638 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4639 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046408 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004641 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004642 where needed.
46437 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4644 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
46457 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4646 of each selected line.
46478 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
46488 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4649 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4650 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
46518 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4652 Ben Godfrey)
46537 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4654 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
46557 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4656 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
46577 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4658 Young is working on this)
46597 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004660 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004661 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
46628 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4663 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
46647 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4665 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4666 option!
46677 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4668 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4669 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4670 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4671 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4672 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4673 without changing the column.
46746 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046757 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4676 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046776 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4678 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
46796 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046806 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004681 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682 or other special character.
46836 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4684
4685
4686More advanced repeating commands:
4687- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046887 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004689 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004690- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004691- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004692 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4693 "y." will repeat last yank.
4694 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4695 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4696 and/or pick an older command.
4697- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4698
4699
4700Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047018 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4702 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4703 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
47048 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
47057 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4706 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047078 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4708 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
47098 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000047107 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047118 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4712 entering search strings.
47138 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4714 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4715 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047168 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4717 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047188 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4719 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4720 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
47217 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4723 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047246 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4725 abbreviations are to be used.
4726- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4727 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4728 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004729- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4730 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4731 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4732 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4733 Or implicit:
4734 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004735- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4736 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4737 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004738- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4739 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4740- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4741 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
47426 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4743 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4744 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4745 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004746- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4747 non-replace Insert mode?
4748- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004749- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4750- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4751 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4752- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004753 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004754- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4755 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4756- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4757- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4758 ":freekeys".
4759- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4760
4761
4762Incsearch:
4763- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4764- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4765 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4766 up every time.
4767- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4768 folds when going to another line.
4769- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4770 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4771 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4772 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4773- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4774 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4775
4776
4777Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010047789 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000047798 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004780 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004781 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004782 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004783 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047849 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4785 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047868 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4787 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000047888 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4789 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4790 Perl does it this way:
4791 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4792 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4793 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4794 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047958 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4796 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4797 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047988 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4799 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4800 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000048017 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4802 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000048038 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4804 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048057 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004806 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4807 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4808 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
48097 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4810 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048117 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004812 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048137 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4814 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048158 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4816 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
48178 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4818 line.
48197 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4820 example.
48218 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4822 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4823- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4824 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4825 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4826 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048278 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4828 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4829 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
48307 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4831 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000048327 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4833 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048348 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4835 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048368 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4837 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4839 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4840 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4841 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004842- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4843 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004844- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4845 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4846- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4847 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4848 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4849 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048508 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4851 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004852- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4853 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048548 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4855 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4856 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004857- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4858 i ignore case
4859 I use case
4860 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4861 v use Vi regexp syntax
4862 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4863 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4864 Perl uses these too:
4865 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4866 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4867 o compile only once (Perl only)
4868 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4869 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4870 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4871 following command.
4872 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4873- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4874 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4875 for search string)?
48767 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4877 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4878- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4879 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4880- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4881 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4882- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4883- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004884 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004885 a for the next file in the argument list
4886 f for file in the buffer list
4887 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004888 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4889 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004890 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4891 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4892- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048937 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004894 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048957 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4896 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4897 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4898 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
48996 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4900 effects.
49017 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4902 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4903 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049047 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905 Also ":dselect".
4906
4907
4908Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010049099 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4910 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4911 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049129 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4913 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020049148 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4915 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4916 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
49178 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4918 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049198 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4920 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4921 timestamp?
4922 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4923 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049248 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4925 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4926 was changed outside of Vim.
4927 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4928 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004929 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4930 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004931- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4932 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004933- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4934 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4935 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
49368 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4937 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4938 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4939 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
49408 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4941 only remember the lines that really changed.
49427 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4943 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4944 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4945 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4947 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4948- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4949 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4950- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4951 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4952 [-99].
4953- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4954- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004955- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4956 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4957
4958
4959Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049607 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4961 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4962 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4963 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
49648 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4965 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
49668 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4967 inode too.
49687 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004969 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4970 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049717 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4972 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4973- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4974 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4975- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4976 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
49777 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4978 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
49797 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4980 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
49818 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049828 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004983 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
49847 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4985 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010049868 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4987 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4988 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004989
4990
4991Swap (.swp) files:
49928 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4993 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4994 there are short file name problems.
49958 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4996 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
49978 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
49988 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004999 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5001 file the same as the actual file?
5002 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050037 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5004 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
50057 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005006 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005007 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5008 enough room.
50097 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5010 or /var/preserve.
5011- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5012 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5013- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
5014 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
5015- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5016 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5017 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5018 cached list of which line is where.
5019
5020
5021Viminfo:
50227 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5023 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5024 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050258 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5026 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5027 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050288 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5029 name. (Schild)
50308 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
50318 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050328 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050338 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5034 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5035 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5036 this?
50377 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
50387 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5039 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
50406 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5041 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5042 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5043- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5044 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5045
5046
5047Modelines:
50488 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5049 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5050 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005051- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5052 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5053 'shiftwidth'.
5054- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5055 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005056- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5057 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5058 modeline setting.
5059- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5060 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5061- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5062 .cpp files.
5063- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5064 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5065- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5066 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5067
5068
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005069Sessions:
50708 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5071 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
50727 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5073 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050748 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5075 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050768 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5077 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5078 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000050797 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5080 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000050817 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005082
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005083
5084Options:
50857 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5086 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5088 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5089 also be supported.
50908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5091 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5092 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
50937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
50947 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5095 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005096 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005097
5098
5099External commands:
51008 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5101 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
51024 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5103 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5104 -f).
51054 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
51064 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5107 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
51084 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5109
5110
5111Multiple Windows:
51127 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
51138 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5114 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
51157 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5116 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5117 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000051187 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5119 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000051207 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5121 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051226 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5123 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005124 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
51267 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5127 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5128 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5129 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5130- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5131 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5132 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5133 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5134
5135
5136Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051378 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051388 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5139 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051408 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 +000051418 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5142 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
51438 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5144 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5145 the mark was set.
51467 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5147 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5148 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5149 ":browse marks"?
51506 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051517 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5152 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
51537 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5154 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
51557 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5156 command).
51577 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5158 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5159 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5160 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
51615 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5162 mappings.
51636 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5164 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5165 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5166
5167
5168Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020051697 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005170 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005171- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5172 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000051738 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051747 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5175 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5176
5177
5178Writing files:
5179- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5180 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5181 shortname conversion.
51828 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
51838 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5184 file.
51858 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5186 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5187 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051886 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5189 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
51906 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5191 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
51926 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5193 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051948 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005195 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
51967 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5197 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
51987 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5199 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5200 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5201 waiting for a character to be typed).
52028 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5203 line of the window, like "[time]".
5204 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5205 Automatic and/or with a command.
5206
5207
5208Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000052098 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5210 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052118 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005212 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5213- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5214- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
52158 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5216 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005217- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218 :s///N substitutes N times.
5219- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5220 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5221 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
52227 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5223 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5224 last line column 5.
52255 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5226 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5227 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5228 (Stanislav Sitar)
5229
5230
5231Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052328 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
52337 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
52348 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5235 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5236 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5238- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5239 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5240- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5241- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5242
5243
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005244Argument list:
52456 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5246 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5247 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
52486 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5249
5250
5251Registers:
52528 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052538 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5254 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5255 for every line.
52566 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5257 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5258 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5259- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5260 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5261- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5262 leader when line wraps?
5263- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5264 line in the range.
5265- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5266 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
52678 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5268 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005269
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005270
5271Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052728 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000052738 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052747 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
52757 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5276
5277
5278Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000052797 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5280 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5281 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5282 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5283 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5284 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5285 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005286 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000052877 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5288 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000052897 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5290 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052918 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5292 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052937 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5294 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5295 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005296- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005297 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052987 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5299 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053007 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5301 window as a buffer-tab selection.
53028 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053037 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5304 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5305 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005306 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5307 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053087 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5309 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
53108 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5311 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053126 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053138 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5314 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5315 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5316 in this Vim.
53178 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005318 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053198 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5320 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5321 have it apply to the following command.
53228 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5323 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5324 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5325 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053267 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5327 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053287 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5329 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5330 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5331 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053326 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
53338 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
53349 Support ACLs on more systems.
53357 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5336 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053377 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5338 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5339 (truncated to fit in the space).
53407 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
53418 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
53428 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5343 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000053447 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005345 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
53467 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5347 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053487 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053497 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
53507 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053518 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
53528 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5353 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5354 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5355 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
53568 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
53576 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5358 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005359 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005360 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053618 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053628 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5363 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5364 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5365 does something like this. (Shah)
53667 Use growarray for replace stack.
53677 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5368 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
53693 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053707 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5371 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053727 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5373 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005374- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5375- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5376- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5377- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
53787 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5379 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5380- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5381 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005382- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005383- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5384 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5385- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5386 call "play newbeep.au").
5387- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5388 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5389 (Bhatt).
5390- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5391 blockwise registers).
5392- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5393 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5394- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5395 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5396 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5397 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005398- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053997 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5400 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5401- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5402 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5403 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5404 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5405 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054068 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5407 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054088 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5409 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5410 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5411 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5412 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5413- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005414- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054157 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5416 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5417- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5418 not in column 1.
54196 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5420 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
54217 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5422- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005423- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005424 :redir #> bufname
5425 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005426- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5427 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005428- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5429 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5430 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
54316 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5432 console? (Klaus Hast)
5433- Add :delcr command:
5434 *:delcr*
5435 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5436 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5437 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5438 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5439 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5440 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5441- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5442- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5443 characters from 'isprint'.
5444- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5445- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5446 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5447- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5448 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5449 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5450- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5451- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5452 Nvi).
5453- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5454 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
54557 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5456- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5457 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
54586 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5459- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5460 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5461 macro).
5462- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005463- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5464 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5465- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
54668 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005467- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5468- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5469- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5470 if it is not the first or last window.
5471- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5472 there is one) instead of the file itself.
54737 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5474 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5475 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5476- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5477- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005478 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005479 many percent down the windows).
5480- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5481 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5482 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005483 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005484- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5485 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5486- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5487 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5488- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5489- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5490- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5491 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054928 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5493 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5494 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5495 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5496 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005497- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5498 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5499- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005500 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5501- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5503 (Webb).
5504- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005505 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5507 hex codes like 0xff).
5508- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5509 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5510 the last TYPED command.
5511- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5512- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5513- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5514 should also work?
5515- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
55168 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5517 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5518 name.
5519- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5520 trailing '.'.
5521- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5522 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5523 find_file_in_path().
5524- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5525 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5526- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5527- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5528 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5529- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005530 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005531- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5532 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5533 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5535- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5536- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5537 to the minimal size.
5538- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5539- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5540- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5541- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5542- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005543- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5544 entered)?
5545- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5546 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005547- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005548- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5549- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5550- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5551- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5552- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5553 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005554- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055558 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5556 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5557 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5558 or in octal.
55597 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5560 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005561- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005562 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5563- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5564- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5565 insert line command).
5566- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5567- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5568- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5569- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5570- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5571 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005572- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573 yet.
5574- Implement 'redraw' option.
5575- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5576 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055777 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5578 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005579 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5580 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055818 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5582 do it.
5583- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5584- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5585 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5586- Add text justification option.
5587- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5588- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5589 off".
5590- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5591- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5592- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005593 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005594- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005595- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005596- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5597- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5598 commands.
5599- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5600- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5601- :table command (Webb)
5602- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005603- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5604- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5605- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5606- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5607- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5608 (Demirel).
5609- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5610- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5611 for use in macro's and the like.
5612- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005613 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005614- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005615 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005616- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005617 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005618 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5619- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5620 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005621- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005622 mkopttab to make option table?
5623- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5624 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5625- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5626 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005627- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5629- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5630 cursor?
5631- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5632- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
56335 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5634 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056358 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5636 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5637 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5638 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5639 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056408 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5641 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5642 (Netherton)
56436 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5644 space after "(", for example.
56455 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5646 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5647 (Servatius Brandt)
5648
5649
5650From Elvis:
5651- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5652- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005653- Search patterns:
5654 \@ match word under cursor.
5655 but do:
5656 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5657 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
56588 ":window" command:
5659 :win + next window (up)
5660 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5661 :win - previous window (down)
5662 :win -- idem, wrapping
5663 :win nr to window number "nr"
5664 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
56657 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5666 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5667
5668
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005669From xvi:
5670- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5671- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5672
5673
5674From vile:
5675- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5676- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5677 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5678
5679
5680Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005681- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5682 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5683 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5684 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5685 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005686- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5687 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5688- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5689 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5690 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5691 current layout mirrored.
5692- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5693- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5694 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5695- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5696- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5697 font in each top-level window.
5698- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5699- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5700- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5701- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5702 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5703- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5704 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5705 mentioned in the tags file.
5706 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5707 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5708- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5709 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5710- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5711 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
57124 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5713 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5714 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5715 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005716 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005717 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5718 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5719- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5720 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5721 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5722
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005723When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5724empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005725
5726vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5727vim: set fo+=n :