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Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Sep 25
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
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
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram 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 Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020075
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020076Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020077More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
78
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020079Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
80work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020081
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010082Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
83
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010084":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
85directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
86
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +020087Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
88changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
89and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
90Perhaps we can use ":silent window"?
91
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +020092Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
93
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +020094Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
95
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +020096Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
97(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +020098
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +020099Can src/GvimExt/Make_cyg.mak be removed?
100Same for src/xxd/Make_cyg.mak
101
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200102Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200103
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001042html update. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Sep 9)
105
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100106MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
107wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
108
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100109Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
110specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
111
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200112Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200113inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200114
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200115Add bzl filetype support. (David Barnett, 2015 Aug 11)
116
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100117When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
118is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
119
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +0200120Test 44 fails when [[=A=]] is changed to [[=À=]]. Caused by getcmdline() not
121handling the 0x80 as a second byte correctly? (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 10)
122
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100123Weird encryption problems on Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Feb 13)
124Goes away when disabling the swap file. (might1, Feb 16)
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200125
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200126MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
127(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
128
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200129The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
13024): setwinvar(), :diffthis, :diffoff.
131
Bram Moolenaard8b77f72015-03-05 21:21:19 +0100132The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
133wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100134
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200135":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
136effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
137
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200138Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200139Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200140
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200141Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
142Sep 10)
143
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200144Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200145Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8.
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200146
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200147Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
148(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100149
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200150Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectating that it ends in a
151slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
152inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
153
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200154ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
1552014 Sep 11)
156
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200157Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
158(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
159
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200160When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
161'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
162
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200163Patch to apply 'fileformats' when starting Vim. (Mike Williams, 2015 Jul 22)
164
165Patch for matchit plugin related to multibyte chars. (Ken Takata, 2015 Jul 22)
166
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200167Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200168(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200169Is this the right solution?
170
171Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
172Work in progress.
173
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200174Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
175Is this right?
176
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200177Patch to have CTRL-A and CTRL-X update the '[ and '] marks.
178(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2015 Aug 23)
179
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200180Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
181(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
182Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
183
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200184Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
185Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100186
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200187Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting.
188(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come.
189
190Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
191Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
192
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200193Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
194
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100195When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
196filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
197initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
198
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100199Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
200
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200201Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
202OK to not block marks?
203
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100204Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
205
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100206Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
207(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
208
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100209Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
210
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100211When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
212Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
213
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200214When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
215(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
216
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200217Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200218
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100219Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
22026, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22)
221
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200222Patch to improve behavior of dead keys on MS-Windows. (John Wellesz, 2015 Aug
22325) https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/399.diff
224
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100225Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
226(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
227
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200228When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
229any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
230
231Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200232
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100233Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
234lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
235
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100236Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100237
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100238Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
2392015 Feb 6.
240
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100241Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what happened
242before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about keeping the
243last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
244
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100245":q!" should reset modified flag for current buffer, if another buffer is
246modified no need to abandon it again.
247Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 21.
248Update from Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Nov 21.
249With test, Nov 23.
250
251Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
252Is this a good solution?
253
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200254Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
255functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
256Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
257Second one. Update May 22.
258Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
259
260Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
261(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
262
263Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
264
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100265Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
266Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
267was already defined.
268(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
269
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200270Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
271
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200272Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100273Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100274Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
275Updated patch from Charles, Dec 29.
276
277Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200278
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200279Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
280(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
281
282Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
283
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100284Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
285(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
286
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200287Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
288Update 2015 Jul 25 (email).
289
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100290Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
291change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
292them: ":repeats".
293
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100294Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
295
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100296Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
297should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
298history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
299Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
300
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200301"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
302Jun 8)
303
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100304Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
305insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
306
307Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100308Update Dec 6.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200309
310Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
311
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100312No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
313
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200314Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
315(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
316Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
317arguments.
318
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200319Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100320
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200321Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
3220x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
323New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
324compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
325
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100326Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100327Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
328Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100329
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200330Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
331More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200332
333Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
334right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200335its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200336
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100337Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
338What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
339
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100340Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
341
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100342Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events.
343(Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1)
344
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100345This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
346 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
347This neither: (ZyX)
348 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
349
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200350'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
351Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
352from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100353
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200354Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
3552014 Jun 8)
356
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200357Patch to load TCL dynamically. (Ken Takata, 2014 Sep 20)
358
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100359Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
360Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
361Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
362User view:
363- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
364 the files before deciding to install.
365- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
366- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
367 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
368 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
369 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
370 on vim.org.
371- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
372 there. Can manually update when really needed.
373- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
374- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
375- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
376- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
377Implementation:
378- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
379 plugin separate.
380- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
381 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
382 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
383- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
384 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
385- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
386 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
387 installing.
388Out of scope:
389- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
390- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
391 useful).
392
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200393Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
394normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100395
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200396CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
397when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
398
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200399When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
400menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
401
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200402Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
403(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
404
405":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
406various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100407
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200408Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200409(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
410
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200411Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
412Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
413
414Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
41530)
416
417Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
418Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200419Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
420Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200421
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100422Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
423Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
424https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
425
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200426VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
427instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
428
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100429Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200430Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100431
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200432Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200433command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100434
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200435Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24)
436
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100437Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
438
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100439Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
440highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100441
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200442The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
443For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
444
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100445Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200446possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100447
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100448Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
449
450Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200451
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200452Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
453
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100454Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
455
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200456With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
4572013 Sep 5)
458
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100459Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100460Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100461
462Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
4633. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
464
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200465/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
466
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01004677 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
468 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
469 "lucida_console:h8").
470Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
471
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200472:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
473
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200474Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100475names.
476(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100477Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200478
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200479Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200480With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200481
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100482Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
483(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
484
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200485Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
486
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200487Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
488
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100489When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
490(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
491
492Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
493Dec 13.
494
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100495Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
496buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
497
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200498GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
499(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
500
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100501Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
502registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
503
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200504Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
505
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200506The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
507(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
508Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
509
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200510The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
511- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
512- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
513
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100514Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
515Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
516reliably?
517
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200518Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
519That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
520Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
52117)
522Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200523Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200524
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100525Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
526(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
527
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100528Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
529(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
530
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02005318 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
532 defined.
533Issue 28.
534
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200535Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
5362013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100537
538Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
539
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200540Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
5415)
542
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200543Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
544carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
545
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200546Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
547highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
548
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100549Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200550
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200551Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200552May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
553May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200554May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200555
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200556Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020055728) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200558
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200559Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
560optional. (2013 Jul 12)
561
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200562Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
563
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100564Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
565(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
566
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100567Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
568
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100569Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100570
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200571- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
572 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
573Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200574
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200575Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200576
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200577Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
578Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
579
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200580In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
581process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
582a reboot.
583
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100584Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100585Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
586Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100587Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100588
589Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
590cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
591
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100592patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
593
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100594Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
595I can't reproduce it.
596
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100597Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
598not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100599
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200600Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
601Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
602
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200603Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
604Or use expand('<sid>')?
605
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100606Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
607
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100608Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100609
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200610Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
611signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
612
613Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
614
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100615Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
616
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100617b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
6187)
619
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200620Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
621compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
622
623Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
624Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
625vim.bindeval().
626
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200627Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
6282012 Aug 4)
629
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100630Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
631(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
632
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100633Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
634But use Gnome instead of GTK?
635
636Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
637Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
638Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200639
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200640Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
641loading all files.
642
643Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
644line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
645after starting up?
646
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02006478 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
648 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
649
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200650MS-Windows resizing problems:
651- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
652 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
653- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
654 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
655 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100656
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100657Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
658Latest version: 2011 May 18
6598 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
660 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
661 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
662Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
663Or the one on Issue 279
664
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200665'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200666
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200667Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200668of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
669
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200670Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
671
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100672Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200673Also question if examples are correct.
674
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200675The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
676Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
677But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200678
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200679Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
680Aug 16)
681
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100682When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
683is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
684
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200685xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
686enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
687
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100688URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100689- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100690- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
691 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
692
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200693Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
694(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
695Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
696
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200697Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200698New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200699
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100700When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
701for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
702Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100703
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200704Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
705
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200706Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
70724)
708
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200709Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
710
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100711Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
712
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200713Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
714Apr 18)
715
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200716Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
717And one for gui_x11.txt.
718
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100719":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
720finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
721Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
722
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200723Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
724
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100725Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
726
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200727Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
728they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
729
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100730Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
731
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100732Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
733Nov 20)
734
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200735Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200736Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200737
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100738`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100739(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
740
741Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
742
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100743BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
744Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
745
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100746Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
747Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
748
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100749Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
750
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100751Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
752Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
753
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200754Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
755
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200756On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
7572012 Jun 19)
758
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200759'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
760'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
761Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200762Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200763
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200764With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
765(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
766need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
767
768Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
769only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
77021, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
771
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100772The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
773support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
774
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200775'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
776highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
777
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100778Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
779New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
780
781Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
782Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
783
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100784Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
785Jan 19)
786
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200787Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
788Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
789Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200790
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200791"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100792Oct 26)
793
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200794Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
795
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200796With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
797register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200798
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200799Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
800
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200801When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
802(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
803
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100804Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
805Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
806
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200807Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
808doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
809Jun 17)
810
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100811When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
812then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
813from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
814
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200815Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
816":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
81715)
818
819Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
820
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200821BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
822cleared. See test64.
823
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200824Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
825
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200826Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200827effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200828Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
829
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200830On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
83164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
832right type.
833
834string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
835(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
836
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200837Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
838
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200839When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
840(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200841When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
842following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
843(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200844
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200845When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
846doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
847
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100848Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
849
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008507 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
851Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
852
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200853maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
854mapping, how to restore the script ID?
855
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200856Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
857(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
858
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200859When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
860indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
861the help file.
862
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200863After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
864Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
865
866Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
867
868"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
869
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200870Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
871May 24) Update May 26.
872
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100873Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
874
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200875Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200876
877Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
8782010 Dec 18)
879
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200880With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
881number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
882Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
883
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200884Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
885Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
886
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008878 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
888Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
889
8908 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
891 after typing something.
892Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
893function that resets did_cursorhold.
894Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
895
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100896Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
897one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
898the match scrolls into view.
899
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009007 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
901Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
902Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
903
9049 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
905 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
906Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
907
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200908Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
909Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
910
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200911In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
912or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
913sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
914
915GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
916doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
917
918GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
919
920Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
921Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
922
923Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
924
9257.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
926there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
927do?
928
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200929Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
93022)
931
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100932New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
933- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200934- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100935 the maximum repeat for * and +?
936
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100937"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
9382011 Feb 27)
939
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200940Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
941^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
942
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100943'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
944way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
945
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100946When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
947exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
9489) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
949
950g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
951the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
952
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100953Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
954crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
955
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200956Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
957number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
958
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200959Regexp engine performance:
960- Profiling:
961 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
962 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
963 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
964 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
965 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
966 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
967- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
968- Performance tests:
969 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
970 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
971 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
972 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
973 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
974 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
975 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
976 'hlsearch'.
977 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
978 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
979 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
980 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
981
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200982Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
983names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
984Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
985the system encoding (usually utf-8).
986
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200987Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
988Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
989
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200990'beval' option should be global-local.
991
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100992Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200993
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200994setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200995
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02009967 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
997 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
998 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
999
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001000With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
10012010 Oct 24)
1002
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001003Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1004Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1005
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001006Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1007
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001008When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1009Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1010
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001011":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1012
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001013'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1014
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001015C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1016checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1017Issue 46.
1018
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001019Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1020
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001021Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1022gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1023
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001024":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1025accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1026
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001027Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1028setwinvar().
1029
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001030Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1031
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001032When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1033(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1034
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001035When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1036instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1037
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001038Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1039Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1040Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001041
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001042Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1043back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1044
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001045Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001046Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1047
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001048CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1049the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1050FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1051
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001052Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1053Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1054
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001055Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1056Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1057
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001058I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1059Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1060an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001061
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001062Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1063
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001064Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1065non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001066
1067iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1068Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1069or replace with a character and continue?
1070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001071Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1072Requires configure check for localtime().
1073Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1074
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001075Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1076Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1077
1078Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1079
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001080Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1081Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1082path.
1083
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001084Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001085Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001086
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001087'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001089":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1090like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1091
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001092Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1093https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001094
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001095Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
10962010 Nov 5)
1097
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001098Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1099Jan 7)
1100
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001101Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1102Only with "vim -u NONE".
1103
1104Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1105
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001106With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1107entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1108Feb 12)
1109
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001110Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1111characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1112
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001113Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1114
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001115Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1116 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1117
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001118Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1119
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001120When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1121Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001123When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1124not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1125string value.
1126
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001127Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1128
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001129For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001130line argument -noregister.
1131
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001132When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1133missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1134
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001135When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1136doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001137
1138Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1139(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1140Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1141There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1142Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1143
1144":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1145highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1146to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1147
1148Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1149Probably needs a bit of work.
1150
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001151Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1152Added test, updates, June 23.
1153Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1154With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1155Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1156
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001157List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001158Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1159
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001160Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001162Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1163
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001164Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1165Sep 1)
1166
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001167Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1168
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001169Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1170on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1171
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001172Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
11732009 Jul 18)
1174
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001175Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1176window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1177Needs more work.
1178
1179Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1180
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001181When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1182few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1183
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001184'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001185(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1186
1187Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1188J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1189
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001190When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1191for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1192
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001193Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1194
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001195Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001197When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1198
1199":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1200because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1201ex_docmd.c.
1202
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001203Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001204Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1205
1206string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1207for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1208
1209Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1210
1211'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
121220)
1213
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001214Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
12152009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1216
1217Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1218
1219Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1220SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1221
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001222When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1223indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1224(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1225
1226Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1227are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1228Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1229Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1230that doesn't have a window.
1231
1232When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1233doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1234
1235getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1236displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1237
1238":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1239
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001240There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1241was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1242perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1243
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001244Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1245
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001246Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1247file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1248system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1249
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001250Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1251command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001253Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1254does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1255
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001256opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1257height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001258very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001259
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001260Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1261(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1262
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001263Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001264(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001266Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1267char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1268
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001269Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1270Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1271
1272This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1273
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001274A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001276Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1277messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1278es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
12792009 Jan 26)
1280
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001281When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001282in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1283Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001285Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1286a modeline.
1287
1288Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1289Sergey Khorev)
1290
1291Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1292part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001293
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001294netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1295number to be below last visible line.
1296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001297After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1298correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1299
1300Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1301(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1302
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001303shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001304'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1305Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1306unix-like shell?
1307
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001308Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1309register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1310(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001312Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1313Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1314
1315Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1316make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001318When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1319still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1320
1321"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1322(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1323
1324Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1325
1326"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1327
1328Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1329that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1330ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1331Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1332
1333Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001334Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001336MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1337doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1338probably causes this.
1339
1340'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020013412009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001342
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001343Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010013442013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001345
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001346Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1347 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1348 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1349(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1350
1351Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1352":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1353option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1354is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001355
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001356":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1357first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001358Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001359
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001360Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1361laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1362Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001363
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001364Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1365anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1366
1367On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1368doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1369Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1370Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1371
1372":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1373
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001374When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1375'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1376fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1377the buffer to be unmodified.
1378Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1379another look at it.
1380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001381c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1382(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1383
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001384You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1385error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1386Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1387at the other match for 0xBF.
1388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001389When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1390argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001392Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1393backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1394
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001395When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1396line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1397
1398Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1399position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1400
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001401After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1402(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001403command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001404
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001405":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1406Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001408Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1409Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1410
1411When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1412either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1413put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1414
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001415Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1416Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1417Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1418Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1419(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001421Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1422
1423ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001424
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001425Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1426(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1427escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1428an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001429This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1430July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001431Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1432work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1433
1434When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
143531)
1436
1437Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1438work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1439Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001440
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001441Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
14422008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001443Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001444
1445Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1446Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1447'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001449Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1450Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001452Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1453Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1454
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020014558 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1456 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1457 several).
1458 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1459 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1460 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1461Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001463Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1464
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001465The utf class table is missing some entries:
1466 0x2212, minus sign
1467 0x2217, star
1468 0x2500, bar
1469 0x26ab, circle
1470
1471Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1472line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1473
1474GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1475Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1476
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001477Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1478try the Cocoa version.
1479
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001480Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1481changed or the window is resized.
1482
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001483GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1484the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001486Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1487Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001488
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001489Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
14901) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1491
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001492C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1493with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1494Try to reproduce at work.
1495
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001496Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1497Is there a way to list all the files first?
1498
1499When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1500result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
150116)
1502
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001503Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1504(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1505
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001506Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1507Await response to question to make the register writable.
1508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001509src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1510remark why.
1511
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001512Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
15131)
1514
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001515In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1516each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1517
1518try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1519
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001520try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1521
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001522":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1523Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1524
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001525Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1526
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001527Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1528Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1529
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001530Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1531Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1532Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001533
1534C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1535(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1536
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001537When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1538and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1539
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001540Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1541 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1542
1543New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1544
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001545":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1546a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1547
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001548'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1549Likonen, March 19)
1550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001551Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1552other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1553
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001554The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1555appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1556matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001558When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1559character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1560'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1561(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001563Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1564Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001565
1566More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1567
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001568Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1569http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1570
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001571Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1572back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1573Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001574
1575Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1576No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1577
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001578Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1579terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001580
1581Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1582
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001583Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1584but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1585that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001586
1587When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1588
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001589Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1590Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001592Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1593popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1594size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1595This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1596
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001597Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1598a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1599isn't right?
1600
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001601When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1602it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1603
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001604Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1605then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1606files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001607Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1608indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1609":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001610in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1611quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001612Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001613
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001614When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1615parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1616neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1617particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1618Jun 3)
1619However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1620the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001621
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001622A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1623Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1624
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001625Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1626Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1627
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001628Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1629switch list is noticed:
1630 switch (i)
1631 {
1632 case 1:
1633 foobar:
1634 }
1635
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001636Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1637
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001638Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1639with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1640go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1641moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1642
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001643Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
164464-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1645
1646Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1647Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1648Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1649argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1650(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1651
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001652Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1653(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1654
1655Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1656makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1657.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1658 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001660Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
16612007 Feb 8)
1662
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001663Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1664set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001665
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001666Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1667
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001668Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1669Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1670New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1671patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1672
1673Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1674Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1675
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001676Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1677
1678Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
16792007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001680Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001681
1682Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001683label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1684
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001685Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1686with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1687Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001688
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001689Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1690pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001691Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001693Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1694
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001695Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1696Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1697only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1698
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001699Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1700Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001701Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001702properly?
1703
1704Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
17052007 Jun 21)
1706
1707When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1708Jun 18)
1709
1710If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1711
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001712Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1713windows. (Adam George)
1714
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001715F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1716modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1717K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001718
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001719UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1720to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1721
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001722In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1723the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1724
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001725C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1726
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001727":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001729When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001730error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001731
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001732Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1733use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001735Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1736if_ruby.c.
1737
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001738":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1739
1740The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1741it in keep_msg?
1742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001743Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001744error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001745name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1746
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001747Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1748longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001750Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1751Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1752Also for ":w" without a file name.
1753The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001754
1755"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1756Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1757
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001758VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1759directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1760(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1761
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001762VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1763
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001764input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1765name?
1766
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001767Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1768
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001769When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1770(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1771Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1772will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1773
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001774gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1775This also fails with --remote.
1776
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001777When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
17782008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1779all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001781aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1782
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001783When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1784(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1785
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001786Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1787the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001789GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1790
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001791Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1792superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1793
1794Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1795character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1796
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001797Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1798Jun 5)
1799
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001800Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
18012008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1802Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1803
1804In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1805but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1806Jul 22)
1807
1808There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1809
1810Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1811":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1812somehow? Or use a new function.
1813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001814Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001816Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1817moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1818that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1819
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001820The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1821
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001822When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001823cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1824the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1825
1826Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1827has been created.
1828
1829Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1830shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1831fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1832background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1833A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001834
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001835These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1836 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1837 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1838 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1839
1840Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1841partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1842
1843In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1844buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1845reload it then?
1846
1847New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1848previous version.
1849
1850For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1851
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001852Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1853only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1854
1855Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1856tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1857doesn't contain other directories.
1858
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001859Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1860Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1861
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001862Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1863 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1864 set background=dark
1865This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1866color is, not reset it.
1867
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001868Linux distributions:
1869- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1870 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1871 xfree-xterm".
1872- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1873
1874Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1875start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1876show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1877middle?
1878
1879When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001880(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001881connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1882dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1883
1884Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1885
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001886When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1887current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1888the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001890When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1891Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001893Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1894 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1895 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1896 - getting colors in xterm
1897 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1898
1899Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1900Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1901
1902Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1903
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001904A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1905Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1906
1907Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1908Dara, 2006 June 21)
1909
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001910Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1911number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001913After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1914the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001916Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001918Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1919copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1920error and stop using the connection to the server.
1921
1922Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1923Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1924
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001925Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010019262008 Sep 29)
1927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001928In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1929check the result of has("patch13").
1930
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001931Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1932restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1933
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001934Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1935and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1936
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001937Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1938put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1939
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001940Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1941resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1942
1943In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1944can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1945
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001946GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1947maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1948doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001949Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1950visible.
1951
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001952When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1953differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001954
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001955The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1956be only one.
1957
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001958"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1959script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1960
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001961It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1962the function name before resolving it to a number?
1963 let d = {}
1964 fun! d.foo()
1965 echo "here"
1966 endfun
1967 call d.foo(9)
1968
1969Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1970only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001971Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1972used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1973
1974Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1975output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1976Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1977
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001978Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001979"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1980name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1981Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001982
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001983printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1984perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1985
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001986Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1987(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1988
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001989Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1990as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1991
1992Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1993Jan 1)
1994
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001995Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
199623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001997
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001998":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1999tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2000Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002001
2002xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
2003buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
2004Xterm 224 supports it!
2005
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002006When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2007text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2008latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2009
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002010Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2011
2012Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2013no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2014
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002015In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2016VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
20172007 Oct 16)
2018
2019TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2020Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2021
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002022Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002024When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2025typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2026Sep 3, 11)
2027
2028When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2029respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2030the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2031what happens for the GUI.
2032
2033X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2034pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2035clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2036Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2037Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2038clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2039
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002040":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2041this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2042
2043When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2044Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2045restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2046
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002047Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
20482010 Jun 30)
2049
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002050Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2051'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2052(Kartik Agaram)
2053
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002054
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02002055At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002056- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002057- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
2058 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002059
2060
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002061More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002062- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2063 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002064- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2065- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2066 21)
2067- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2068 patch May 10)
2069- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2070 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2071- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2072 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2073- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2074- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2075- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2076 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2077 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002078- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002079- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2080 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2081- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2082 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2083- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2084 21)
2085- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2086 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2087- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2088 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002089- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2090 Sep 13)
2091- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002092 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002093- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2094 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2095 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2096 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2097 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002098- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002099
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002100Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000021019 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2102 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2103 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2104 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2105 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2106 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2107 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2108 (Alan Schmitt)
2109 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002110 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2111 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000021129 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002113 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021148 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021158 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002116 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021177 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2118 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2119 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021208 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002121 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020021227 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002123 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2124- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2125 for multi-byte characters.
2126- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2127- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2128 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2129 been given values.
2130 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
21318 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002132 with an ESC sequence.
2133 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2134 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2135 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021367 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2137 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2138- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2139 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2140 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
21418 Add functions:
2142 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2143 Update 2004 Sep 10
2144 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2145 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002146 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002147 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2148 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2149 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2150 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2151 (2003 May 13)
2152 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2153 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002154 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2155 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002156 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2157 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2158 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021597 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2160 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2161- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2162 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
21637 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2164 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000021658 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2166 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021677 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
21688 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2169 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
21707 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2171 Kotchan has a patch for it)
21728 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2173 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2174 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
21757 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2176- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2177 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2178 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002179- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2180 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2181- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2182
2183
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002184Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002185- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2186 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021878 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2188 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2189 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2190 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2191 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2192 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021938 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2194 make Vim exit.
21957 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2196 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2197 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
21988 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2199 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2200 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
22016 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2202 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2203 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
22048 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2205 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2206 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2207 names in one buffer???
2208 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2209 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2210 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
22117 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2212 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2213 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002214 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2215 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022167 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2217 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
22187 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
22197 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
22207 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2221 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
22227 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2223 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2224 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2225 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
22267 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
22277 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
22287 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2229 to the match with the tag? Option?
22307 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
22317 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2232 (Sayre).
22337 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2234 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022357 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2236 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2237 match. Nvi can do it too.
22387 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2239 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2240 line 1\ line 2\\
2241 line 2\ line 3\\
2242 . line4/
22436 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2244 the way the shell is started?
22456 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2246 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2247
2248
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002249GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022509 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022518 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2252 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2253 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000022548 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2255 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2256 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022579 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2258 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2259 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2260 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002261- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2262 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2263 blocked for now.
2264
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002265
2266Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002267- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2268 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022698 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2270 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
22718 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2272 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2273 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
22748 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2275 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022766 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2277 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000022788 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2279 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2280 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022817 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2282 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2283 to use an opaque background in most places?
22848 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2285 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2286 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022877 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2288 2004 May 9)
22898 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2290 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2291 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2292 MS-Windows 98?
2293 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2294 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2295 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2296 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022978 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2298 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2299 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2300 doesn't work properly.
23018 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2302 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2303 appears in the right position. (Webb)
23049 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2305 button doesn't give popup menu.
2306 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2307 selection.
2308 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2309 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2310 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
23118 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2312 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2313 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2314 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
23158 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2316 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2317 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023187 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2319 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2320 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
23217 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2322 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002323 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023247 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2325 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023266 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
23278 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2328 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2329 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
23308 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2331 know which keyboard is being used?
23327 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2333 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2334 area (Koloseike).
23358 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2336 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2337 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2338 the font name).
2339
2340
2341Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000023426 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2343 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2344 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2345 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2346 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023479 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2348 required and it's missing?
23498 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2350 wrong.
23519 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2352 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023539 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002354 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2355 flag.
23568 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2357 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2358 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
23598 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
23606 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2361 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2362 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2363 the tooltips work though...
23647 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2365 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
23668 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2367 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2368 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2369
2370
2371Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010023729 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2373 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023749 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2375 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2376 through files.
23777 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2378 read long file names. (Schroeder)
23794 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2380 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2381 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2382 problem during a refresh.
23835 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2384 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2385 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2386 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2387 colors as it should.
2388 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2389 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2390
2391
2392Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002393- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023947 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2395 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023968 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2397 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2398 (Phillipps)
2399
2400
2401GUI:
24029 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2403 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
24049 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002405 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002406 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
24079 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2408 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
24098 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2410 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
24118 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2412 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2413 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
24148 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2415 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2416 of where it is processing the output.
2417 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
24188 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2419 doesn't work.
24208 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000024218 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2422 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2423 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020024248 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024258 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2426 browse().
24278 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2428 use that code? Or use console dialog.
24298 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2430 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000024317 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2432 - regexp on/off
2433 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2434 when all buffers/directory is used:
2435 - filter for file name
2436 when directory is used:
2437 - subdirectory on/off
2438 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024398 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2440 to avoid problems.
24418 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2442 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2443 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
24448 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2445 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2446 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
24478 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2448 up. Set erase character somehow?
24498 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2450 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2451 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2452 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
24538 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
24547 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2455 visible.
24567 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2457 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
24587 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2459 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
24608 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2461 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
24628 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2463 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2464 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2465 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2466- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
24674 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2468 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2469 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2470
2471
2472MSDOS/DJGPP:
24739 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2474 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2475 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
24768 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2477 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
24789 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002479 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2480 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024819 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2482 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2483 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2484 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
24859 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2486 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2487 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2488 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2489 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2490 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2491 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2492 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2493 key code. Use a translation table?
24949 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2495 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
24968 Use DJGPP 2.03.
24978 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2498 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
24998 setlocale() is bogus.
25008 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2501 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2502 Windows 95 system!
25038 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025047 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002505 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
25067 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2507 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2508 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
25098 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2510 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
25117 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2512 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2513 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2514 "[New file]".
25157 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2516 that is supported?
25178 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
25188 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2519 Briscoe)
2520
2521
2522MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
25238 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2524 gen_expand_wildcards().
25258 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2526 Wagner.
25278 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
25288 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2529 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025308 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2531 a good fallback, thus use:
2532 $HOME
2533 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2534 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2535 $USERPROFILE
2536 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2537 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2538 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2539 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025408 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2541 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
25428 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2543 Should work like in the GUI version.
25448 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2545 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
25468 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2547 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
25488 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2549 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2550 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025518 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2552 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2553 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2554
2555
2556Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020025578 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002558 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2559 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
25608 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2561 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2562
2563
2564Win32 console:
25659 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2566 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2567 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2568 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2569 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2570 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2571 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2572 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2573 and the file is not saved.
2574 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2575 long name.
25768 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2577 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
25787 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2579 besides the console.
25808 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
25819 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2582 <C-S-i>?
25839 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2584 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
25858 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2586 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025877 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2588 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2589 exiting.
2590
2591
2592Amiga:
25938 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2594 sequences.
25959 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2596 backslashes in result.
25978 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2598 all options, using white space separation.
2599
2600
2601Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002602- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026037 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2604 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2605 (Jack)
2606 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026078 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2608 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026098 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
26108 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
26119 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2612 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026139 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002614
2615
2616"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002617- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2618 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2620 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002621- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2622 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2623 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2624 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2625 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2626 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2627 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000026289 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2629 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000026309 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002631 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2632 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026338 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2634 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2635 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002636 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026377 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2638 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
26398 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2640 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2641 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026427 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2643 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002644- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2645 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026468 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2647 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2648 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2649 using the horizontal scrollbar.
26507 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2651 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2652 invocations belong together.
26538 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2654 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
26558 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2656 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2657 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2658 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2659 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026608 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2661 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2662 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026638 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2664 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026657 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2666 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2667 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2668 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026697 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2670 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2671 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
26727 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2673 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2674 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
26757 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2676 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026777 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2678 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026799 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2680 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2681 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2682 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2683 script can be called.
26848 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2685 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2686 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026878 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2688 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026898 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002690 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2691 configurable?
26928 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
26939 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2694 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2695 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026968 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2697 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026988 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2699 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027008 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2701 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027029 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2703 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2704 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027057 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027068 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2707 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2708 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000027098 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2710 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2712 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027138 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2714 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
27159 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2716 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2717 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002718 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027197 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2720 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027217 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2722 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2723 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2724 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027258 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002726 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2727 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2728 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2729 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002730 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2731 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002732 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002733 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002734 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2735 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2736 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2737 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2738 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
27398 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2740 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
27419 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2742 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2743 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027448 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2745 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
27468 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2747 in lines that don't extend into the block?
27488 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2749 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2750 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
27518 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2752 'linebreak'.
27538 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2754 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2755 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027569 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2757 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2758 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2759 'magic' in history. (Margo)
27609 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2761 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
27629 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2763 isn't updated).
27649 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
27659 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2766 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2767 cause another redraw, etc.
27688 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2769 must escape special characters in the pattern.
27708 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2771 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2772 ":w!!" for that.
2773 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2774 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002775 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027767 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2777 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2778 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2779 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2780 clipboard)
27817 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2782 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2783 Waggoner)
27848 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2785 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2786 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000027876 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2788 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2789 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027908 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2791 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
27928 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2793 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2794 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000027958 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027968 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2797 (e.g., ":w").
27988 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2799 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
28008 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2801 for ">>".
28028 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2803 script in do_cmdline().
28048 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2805 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2806 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2807 changes.
28088 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2809 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
28108 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2811 check for file marks. This can be slow.
28127 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2813 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2814 needed.
2815 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
28168 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2817 to skip catch_signals()?
28189 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2819 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2820 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2821 text?
28228 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2823 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
28248 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2825 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
28269 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2827 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2828 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2829 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2830 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
28317 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2832 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2833 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2834 in the list?
28358 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2836 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2837 instead of on button down.
28388 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
28399 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2840 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002841 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2842 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028438 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2844 character is typed.
28458 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2846 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
28478 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2848 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
28498 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2850 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2851 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2852 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2853 cygwin bash.
28547 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2855 Remember flags for backreferences.
28567 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2857 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
28587 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2859 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
28608 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2861 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
28627 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2863 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028647 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2865 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2866 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
28677 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2868 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
28698 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2870 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2871 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
28727 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2873 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002874
2875
2876I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
28779 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2878 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2879 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002880
2881
2882Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002883- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2884 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2885 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002886- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2887 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2888 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2889 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2890 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2891 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002892 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002893- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2894 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002895 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002896 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2897 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2898 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002899- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2900 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2901 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2902 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2903 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2904- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2905 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2906 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2907- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2908 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002910- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2911 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2912 character gets the highlighting.
2913- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2914 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2915- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2916 (Jennings)
2917- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2918- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2919 errors. How do we get the rest?
2920- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002921- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002922 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2923- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2924 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2925 first?
2926- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2927 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2928- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2929 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2930 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2931- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2932 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2933 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2934 (Benzinger).
2935- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2936 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2937 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2938- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2939 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2940- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2941 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2942- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2943 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2944 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2945 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2946 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2947 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2948- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2949 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2950 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002951- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2952 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2953 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002954- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2955 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2956 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2957- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2958 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2959- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2960 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002961- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2962 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2963- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2964 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2965 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2966 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2967 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2968- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2969 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2970 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2971- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2972 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2973 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002974- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2975 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 +00002976- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2977 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2978 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2979 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2980 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2981- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2982 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2983
2984--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2985 *extensions-improvements*
2986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002987Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2988- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2989 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2990 calling a function.
2991 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2992 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002993- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2994 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2995- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2996 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2997 http://clewn.sf.net.
2998 And the idevim plugin/script.
2999 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3000 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3001 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3002 other window.
3003 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3004 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3005 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3006 in terminal mode.
3007- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3008 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3009 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3010 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3011 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3012 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003013 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003014- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3015 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3016 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003017- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3018 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003019- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3020 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3021 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030228 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3023 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3024 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3025 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003026- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3027 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003028
3029
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003030Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030318 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3032 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030338 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3034 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030358 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3036 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030378 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030387 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
30399 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3040 - change to cursor position and curswant
3041 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3042 - how it works for folded lines
3043 - how it works with multi-byte characters
30449 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3045 work too.
30468 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3047 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3048 text.
30498 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
30507 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3051 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
30527 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3053 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003054 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003055- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3056
3057
3058Help:
3059- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3060 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3061- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3062 to the other matches.
3063- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3064- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3065- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3066 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3067 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3068 default contents.
3069- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3070 height for the help window (and other windows).
3071- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3072- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3073- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3074
3075
3076User Friendlier:
30778 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3078 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3079 Briscoe)
30808 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
30818 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3082 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3083 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
30848 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3085 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3086- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3087 ":mkplugin <file>"?
30888 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3089 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3090 'runtimepath'.
3091 " Vim plugin
3092 <main plugin code>
3093 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3094 <plugin docs>
3095- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
30969 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3097 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3098 item?).
3099 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031008 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
31017 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000031027 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3103 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3104 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000031058 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3106 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3107 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3108 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003109
3110
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003111Tab pages:
31129 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031137 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3114 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031158 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000031168 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031177 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031187 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003119 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031207 Add local variables for each tab page?
31218 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3122 tab pages.
31237 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031247 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3125 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003126
3127
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003128Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003129- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3130 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3131- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3132 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3133 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3134- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3135 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003136- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3137 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3138 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003139- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3140 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3141 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003142- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3143 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003144- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003145 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3146 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000031478 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3148 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
31498 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3150 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
31518 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3152 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003153 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003154 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3155 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3156 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3157 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003158- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3159 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003160- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003161- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3162 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003163- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003164 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003165- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003166 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003167- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3168 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003169- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3170 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3171- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003172 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003173 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3174 in the affix file separately.
3175 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003176 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003177 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3178 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3179 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3180- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3181 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3182 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3183 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3184 Alternative:
3185 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3186 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3187 affix which is required.
3188- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003189 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003190- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3191 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3192 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003193- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3194 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003195- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3196 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3197- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000031988 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3199 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3200 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3201 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003202- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3203 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3204 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3205 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032068 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3207 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000032088 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
32098 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3210 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000032117 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
32128 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3213 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3214 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3215 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003216
3217
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003218Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020032199 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3220 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032219 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3222 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003223 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032248 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3225 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3226 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003227 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3228 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032297 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3230 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3231 location.
3232
3233
3234Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003235 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3236 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032378 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3238 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000032398 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032409 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3241 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032428 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3243 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3244 user aware of this?
32458 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3246 commands skip over a closed fold.
32478 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
32488 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032497 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003250- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3251 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3252 missing line goes unnoticed.
3253 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003254- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3255 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3256 smoother?
3257- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3258 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003259- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3260 file can contain:
3261 args version.c main.c
3262 edit version.c
3263 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003264- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003265- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3266 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003267- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3268 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003269- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3270 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003271- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032728 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003273 searches.
3274
3275
3276Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003277- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3278 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3279 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3280 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032819 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3282 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3283 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3284 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020032859 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3286 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3287 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032888 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3289 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3290 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3291 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3292 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3293 item.
32948 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003295 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3296 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032978 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3298 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003299 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003300 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033018 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3302 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033038 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3304 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3305 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033067 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3307 so that the user can fix the problem.
33088 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3309 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033109 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
33118 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033128 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
33138 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033147 Searching and composing characters:
3315 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003316 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3317 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033188 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
33198 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
33208 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3321 characters.
33228 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
33238 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3324 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
33257 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3326 'display' option to specify this.
33277 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3328 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3329- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3330 fontselector somehow.
3331- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3332 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3333- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3334 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3335- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3336 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3337 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3338 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3339 if a font exists?
3340- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003341 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003342- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3343 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
33447 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3345 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003346- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3347 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3348 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3349 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003350- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3351 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3352 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3353- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3354 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3355 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3356 But it's very complicated...
3357
3358
3359Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000033607 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003361- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3362- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3363 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003364- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3365 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003366- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3367- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3368 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003369- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3370 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003371- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3372 units as for the margins.
3373- Support right-to-left text?
33748 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3375 color.
3376
3377
3378Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033798 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3380 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
33818 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3382 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
33838 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3384 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000033857 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3386 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033878 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3388 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3389 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033907 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3391 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3392 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033938 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
33949 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3395 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033967 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3397 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000033987 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3399 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034008 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3401 change this for each release.
34028 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3403 pattern, but not in the body.
34048 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3405 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3406 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034078 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
34088 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3409 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3410 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3411 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003412 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3413 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034148 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3415 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
34168 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3417 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003418 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034198 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3420 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3421 used.
34228 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3423 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
34248 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3425 re-insert the [] if possible.
34268 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3427 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034288 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3429 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3430 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3431 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3432 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034338 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3434 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
34358 Support for deleting syntax items:
3436 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3437 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3438 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
34398 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3440 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3441 a '<'. (Fleiner)
34427 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3443 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3444 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
34457 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3446 detected.
34478 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003448 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034498 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3450 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034518 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
34528 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
34537 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3454 ":mkvimrc".
34558 Improve c.vim:
3456 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3457 "c_strict_ansi".
3458 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
34598 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3460 current line while in Insert mode.
34618 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3462 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
34638 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3464 display position.
34658 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3466 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3467 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
34688 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3469 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3470 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034718 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3472 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3473 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000034747 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3475 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3476 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3477 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3478 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034797 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3480 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3481 E.g. for this html:
3482 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034837 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
34847 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3485 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
34878 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034887 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3489 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3490 completion?
34918 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3492 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
34937 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3494 select one of the sets.
34958 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3496 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3497 2, etc.
34988 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3499 highlighting (for "." command).
35008 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3501 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
35028 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
35037 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3504 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
35056 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3506 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3507- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3508 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3509- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003510- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3511 (for comment blocks).
3512- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3513 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3514 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3515 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3516 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3517 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3518 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3519 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3520 (Campbell)
3521 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3522 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
35237 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3524 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
35257 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3526 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3527 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
35287 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3529 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3530 messages. And external commands?
35318 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3532 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
35337 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3534 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3535
3536
3537Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035388 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3539 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003540 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035417 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3542 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3543 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035448 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3545 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003546- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3547 2006 Dec 11.
3548- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020035498 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3550 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3551 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3552 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3553 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3554 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035557 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3556 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035578 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
35588 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3559 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3560 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3561 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3562 nested packages?
3563 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3564 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3565 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035667 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3567 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3568 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3569 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3570 autocommand.
3571 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3572 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3573 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3574 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035757 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3576 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035776 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3578 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035798 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003580 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3581 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3582 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3583 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3584 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3585 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3586 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003587 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3588 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3589 3 2002
3590 Only add this when also implemented for
3591 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3592 be used.
3593 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003594 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3595 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3596 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3597 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3598 File.Open..." argument.
3599 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3600 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3601 with properties instead.
3602 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3603 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3604 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003605 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003606 crypt() encrypt string
3607 decrypt() decrypt string
3608 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3609 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003610 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003611 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003613 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003615 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3616 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3618 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003619 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003620 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3621 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003622 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3623 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3624 to allow the library to execute a command or
3625 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036267 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3627 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
36288 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3629 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036308 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3631 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036328 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036337 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3634 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
36356 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036368 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3637 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036388 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3639 option or environment variable.
36408 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036418 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003642 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036437 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3644 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036458 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3646 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
36478 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
36488 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3649 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3650 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3651 charwise({expr}).
36527 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3653 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3654 buffer for this?
3655 result = scratch(string, command)
3656 result = apply(string, command)
3657 result = execute(string, command)
3658 "command" would use <> notation.
3659 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
36607 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003661
3662
3663Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000036646 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3665 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3666 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3667 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3668 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3669 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3670 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003671
3672
3673Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036747 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3675 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020036767 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3677 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3678 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3679 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036808 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3681 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3682 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3683 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003684 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036858 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3686 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3687 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036888 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
36899 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
36908 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
36917 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3692 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
36938 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3694 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3695 when starting up in a color terminal.
36968 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3697 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036988 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3699 function be improved?
37008 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3701 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3702 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3703 this be improved?
37048 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3705 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000037067 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3707 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037087 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3709 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
37107 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3711 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020037127 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037137 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3714 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3715 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3716 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3717 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3718 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3719 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037208 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3721 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3722 using strcmp() too often?
37237 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3724 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3725 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3726 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3727 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3728 the two blocks to the memfile block.
37297 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3730 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3731 with an argument that can be messed with.
3732 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3733 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
37347 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3735- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
37368 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3737 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3738- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3739 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3740- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3741- Do profiling on:
3742 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3743 - 1000ii<Esc>
3744 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3745 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3746 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3747 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3748 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3749 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003750 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037517 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3752 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3753 changed).
3754 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3755 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3756- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3757- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3758 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3759- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3760 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3761 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3762- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3763 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3764- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3765- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3766 cursor is right of the screen.
37678 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3768 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3769
3770
3771Code size:
37728 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3773- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3774 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
37758 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
37768 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3777 it.
37787 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3779 left out.
37808 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3781 can be removed.
37828 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3783
3784
3785Messages:
37868 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3787 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
37888 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3789 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
37908 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3791 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003792- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3793 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3794- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037958 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3796 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037979 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3798 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3799 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3800 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3801 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038028 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3803 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
38048 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3805 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3806 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3807 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3808 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3809 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003810- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003811 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038128 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3813 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3814 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3815 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3816 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3817 error messages, printing text, etc.
38188 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3819 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3820 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3821
3822
3823Screen updating:
38247 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3825 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3826 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3827- screen_line():
3828 - insert/delete character stuff.
3829 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3830- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3831 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3832- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3833 waiting for a character.
38348 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3835 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3836 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
38377 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003838
3839
3840Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020038418 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038426 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3843- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3844 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3845 windows.
38467 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3847 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3848 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3849- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3850 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3851 (Goldfarb)
3852- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3853 bound windows.
3854- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3855 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003856- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3858 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3859 of lines but not with a single line).
3860
3861
3862Autoconf:
38638 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
38648 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3865 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3866- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3867 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3868- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3869- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3870- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3871
3872
3873Perl interface:
38748 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038757 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
38767 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
38776 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3878
3879
3880Shared libraries:
38816 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3882 :libload internal-name libname
3883 :libunload internal-name
3884 :liblist
3885 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3886 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3887 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
38886 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3889
3890
3891Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000038929 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3893 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3894 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3895 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3896 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038978 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3898 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3899 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003900 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003901 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000039027 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3903 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3904 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039058 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
39068 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3907 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039087 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3909 window for each tag.
39107 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
39117 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3912 bottom" search message.
39137 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3914 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3915 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003916- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3917- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003918- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3919 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3920 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039217 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3922 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3923 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3924 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
39257 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3926 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3927 :tagargs clear
3928 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3929 matching).
39307 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3931 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3932 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3933 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
39347 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3935 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
39367 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3937 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3938 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003939
3940
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941Win32 GUI:
39428 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3943 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039447 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3945 (Mike McCollister)
39468 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3947 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3948 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3949 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3950 common part of the path.
39518 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
39528 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3953 gettext and menus work.
39548 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3955 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003956 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003957 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
39588 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3959 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
39608 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3961 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
39627 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3963 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
39647 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
39657 <Esc> should close a dialog.
39667 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3967 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3968 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3969 prompts.
39707 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3971 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3972 the file added into an already running Vim.
39737 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3974 functions to find the window title.
3975
3976
3977GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020039788 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003979- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3980 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
39817 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
39828 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
39836 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
39848 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3985 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
39869 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
39877 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
39888 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3989 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
39908 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3991 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3992 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
39938 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3994 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
39958 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3996 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3997 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3998 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039997 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
40008 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4001 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040027 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4003 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4004 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040058 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
40068 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004007 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040088 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
40098 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
40108 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4011 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4012 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
40137 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4014 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4015 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
40167 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4017 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
40187 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4019 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4020 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4021 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
40227 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4023 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
40247 Should support multi-column menus.
4025- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4026 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4027- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
40288 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
40296 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4030 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
40317 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
40327 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4033 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4034 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
40357 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
40368 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4037 name can be chosen free.
40387 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4039 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
40406 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4041 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4042 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4043 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4044 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4045 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4046 things.
40477 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4048 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040497 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004050 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004051- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4052 where it was started from?
40537 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4054
4055
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004056Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020040579 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4058 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004059- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010040608 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4061 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4062 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4063 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
40648 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4065 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000040667 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4067 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4068 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4069 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000040707 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040718 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4072 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4074 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4075 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040767 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4077 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4078 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040798 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4080 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4081 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040828 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4083 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040848 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040856 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4086 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040877 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040887 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004089 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4090 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4091 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040925 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4093 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4094 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
40957 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4096 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4097 file.
40988 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4099 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4100 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004101- Add events to autocommands:
4102 Error - When an error happens
4103 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004104 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004105 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4106 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004108 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004109 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4110 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004111 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004112 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004113 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4114 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4115 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4116 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004117 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004118 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4119 the char.
4120 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4121 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4122 file from CVS).
4123 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4124 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4125 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4126 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4127 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4128 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004129 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4130 changes.
4131 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4132 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004133- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004134 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004135 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004136 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4137 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4138 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4139 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4140 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4141
4142
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004143Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004144- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4145 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004146- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4147 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4148 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4149 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4150 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004151- Ideas from others:
4152 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4153 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4154 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4155 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4156 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4157 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4158 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4159 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4160 Uses Perl for C++.
4161 Uses ctags to find the info:
4162 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4163 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4164 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4165 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4166 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4167 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004168 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004169 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4170- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4171
4172
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004173Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004174- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000041757 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4176 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041777 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4178 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4179 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041808 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4181 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
41829 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4183 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4184 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041858 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4186 - ignore/match case
4187 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041888 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4189 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4190 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4191 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4192 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4193 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041948 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000041957 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4196 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041978 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4198 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4199 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4200 Should work for C++ and Java.
4201 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
42027 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
42037 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4204 instead of words.
42058 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
42068 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4207 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
42088 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4209 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004210- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4211 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4213 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4214 wildcards in the file name)?
4215- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4216- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4217- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4218 be in another file).
4219- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4220- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4221- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4222 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4223- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4224- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4225- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004226- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4227
4228
4229Command line editing:
42307 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4231 line.
42328 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4233 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4234 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4235- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4236 lines wraps to start of line).
4237- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4238 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4239 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4240 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4241 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4242 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4243 cmdwin does now already.
4244 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4245 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4246 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4247 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4248 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4249 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4250 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4251 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4252 Problems:
4253 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4254 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4255 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4256 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4257 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4258 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4259 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4260 character in first column?
4261 - Implementation ideas:
4262 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4263 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4264 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4265 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4266 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4267 Mode.
4268
4269
4270Command line completion:
42718 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
42728 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4273 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
42748 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4275 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042768 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4277 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042787 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4279 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004280- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4281- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4282 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042838 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4284 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
42857 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4286 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4287- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4288 identifiers (Webb).
42898 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4290 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
42917 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4292 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4293- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4294 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4295- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4296 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4297 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004298
4299
4300Command line history:
4301- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4302 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4303 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4304 completely resulted from one mapping.
4305- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4306 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4307
4308
4309Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000043109 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4311 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4312 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043138 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4314 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4315 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4316 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4317 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043188 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4319 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4320 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043217 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4322 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004323- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020043249 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043257 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4326 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4327- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4328 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4329 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4330 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4331 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4332 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4333- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4334 Normal mode.
4335- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4336 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4337 are used.
4338- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4339- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4340- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4341
4342
4343'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010043449 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4345 char * veryLongName =
4346 "very long string"
4347 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043488 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043498 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4350 long_type foo =
4351 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4353 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004354 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043558 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4356 func(
4357 new String[] {
4358 "asdf",
4359 "asdf"
4360 }
4361 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043628 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4363 (Chow Loong Jin)
4364 namespace {
4365 int
4366 func(int arg) {
4367 }
4368 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043696 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4370 func( arg1
4371 , arg2
4372 , arg3
4373 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000043747 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004375 func(
4376 int x) // indent like "(4"
4377 {
4378 if (a
4379 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043809 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4381 if (a)
4382 {
4383 if (b)
4384 {
4385 // {
4386 }
4387 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004388 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4389 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4390 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004391- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004392 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
43937 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4394- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4395 line).
4396- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4397- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4398 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004399- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4400 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4401- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4402 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4403- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4404- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4405 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
44068 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4407 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4408 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4409- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4410- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4411 lines start with "\item".
4412- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4413 /* here is a comment that
4414 is just autoindented, and
4415 nothing else */
4416- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
44177 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4418 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4419 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004420 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004421
4422
4423Java:
44248 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4425 Odendahl?
44268 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4427 "[i" commands and friends.
4428- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4429 (Jason)
4430- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4431 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4432
4433
4434'comments':
44358 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4436 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4437 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4438 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004439 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4440 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044417 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4442 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
44437 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
44446 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4445 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4446 regexp is used.
44478 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4448 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4449
4450
4451Virtual edit:
44528 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044537 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4454
4455
4456Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044578 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044588 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044598 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004460 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000044618 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4462 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004463 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4464 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000044658 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044667 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4467 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044688 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4469 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044708 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4471 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4472 the end of the line or before a ".".
44737 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4474 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
44757 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4476 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044776 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
44785 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4479 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4480 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4481 cursor is on.
4482
4483
4484Select mode:
44858 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4486 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
44877 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004488 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044897 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4490 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4491 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4492 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4493 normal_cmd().
4494 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4495 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4496
4497
4498Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020044998 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4500 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4502 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4503 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004504- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4505 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4506 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045078 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004508 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004509 where needed.
45107 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4511 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
45127 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4513 of each selected line.
45148 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
45158 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4516 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4517 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
45188 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4519 Ben Godfrey)
45207 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4521 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
45227 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4523 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
45247 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4525 Young is working on this)
45267 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004527 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004528 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
45298 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4530 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
45317 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4532 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4533 option!
45347 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4535 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4536 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4537 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4538 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4539 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4540 without changing the column.
45416 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045427 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4543 current buffer.
45447 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
45456 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4546 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
45476 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045486 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004549 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550 or other special character.
45516 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4552
4553
4554More advanced repeating commands:
4555- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045567 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004557 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004558- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004559- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004560 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4561 "y." will repeat last yank.
4562 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4563 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4564 and/or pick an older command.
4565- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4566
4567
4568Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4570 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4571 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
45728 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
45737 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4574 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045758 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4576 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
45778 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000045787 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045798 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4580 entering search strings.
45818 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4582 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4583 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045848 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4585 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045868 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4587 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4588 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
45897 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045907 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4591 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045926 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4593 abbreviations are to be used.
4594- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4595 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4596 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004597- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4598 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4599 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4600 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4601 Or implicit:
4602 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004603- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4604 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4605 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004606- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4607 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4608- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4609 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
46106 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4611 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4612 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4613 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004614- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4615 non-replace Insert mode?
4616- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004617- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4618- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4619 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4620- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004621 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4623 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4624- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4625- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4626 ":freekeys".
4627- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4628
4629
4630Incsearch:
4631- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4632- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4633 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4634 up every time.
4635- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4636 folds when going to another line.
4637- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4638 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4639 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4640 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4641- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4642 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4643
4644
4645Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046469 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000046478 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004648 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004649 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004650 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004651 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046529 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4653 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010046548 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4655 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000046568 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4657 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4658 Perl does it this way:
4659 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4660 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4661 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4662 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046638 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4664 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4665 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046668 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4667 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4668 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000046697 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4670 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000046718 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4672 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000046737 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004674 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4675 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4676 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
46777 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4678 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000046797 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004680 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046817 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4682 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046838 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4684 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
46858 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4686 line.
46877 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4688 example.
46898 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4690 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4691- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4692 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4693 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4694 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046958 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4696 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4697 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
46987 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4699 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000047007 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4701 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047028 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4703 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047048 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4705 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047068 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4707 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4708 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4709 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004710- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4711 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004712- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4713 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4714- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4715 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4716 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4717 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047188 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4719 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004720- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4721 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047228 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4723 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4724 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004725- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4726 i ignore case
4727 I use case
4728 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4729 v use Vi regexp syntax
4730 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4731 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4732 Perl uses these too:
4733 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4734 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4735 o compile only once (Perl only)
4736 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4737 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4738 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4739 following command.
4740 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4741- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4742 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4743 for search string)?
47447 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4745 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4746- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4747 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4748- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4749 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4750- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4751- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004752 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004753 a for the next file in the argument list
4754 f for file in the buffer list
4755 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004756 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4757 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004758 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4759 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4760- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047617 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004762 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047637 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4764 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4765 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4766 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
47676 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4768 effects.
47697 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4770 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4771 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000047727 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004773 Also ":dselect".
4774
4775
4776Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010047779 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4778 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4779 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047809 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4781 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020047828 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4783 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4784 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
47858 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4786 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047878 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4788 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4789 timestamp?
4790 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4791 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047928 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4793 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4794 was changed outside of Vim.
4795 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4796 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004797 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4798 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004799- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4800 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004801- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4802 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4803 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
48048 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4805 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4806 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4807 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
48088 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4809 only remember the lines that really changed.
48107 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4811 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4812 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4813 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004814- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4815 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4816- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4817 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4818- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4819 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4820 [-99].
4821- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4822- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004823- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4824 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4825
4826
4827Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048287 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4829 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4830 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4831 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
48328 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4833 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
48348 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4835 inode too.
48367 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004837 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4838 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048397 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4840 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4841- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4842 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4843- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4844 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
48457 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4846 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
48477 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4848 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
48498 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048508 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004851 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
48527 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4853 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010048548 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4855 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4856 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004857
4858
4859Swap (.swp) files:
48608 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4861 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4862 there are short file name problems.
48638 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4864 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
48658 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
48668 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004867 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004868 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4869 file the same as the actual file?
4870 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048717 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4872 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
48737 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004874 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004875 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4876 enough room.
48777 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4878 or /var/preserve.
4879- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4880 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4881- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4882 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4883- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4884 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4885 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4886 cached list of which line is where.
4887
4888
4889Viminfo:
48907 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4891 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4892 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000048938 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4894 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4895 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048968 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4897 name. (Schild)
48988 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
48998 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049008 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049018 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4902 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4903 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4904 this?
49057 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
49067 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4907 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
49086 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4909 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4910 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4911- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4912 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4913
4914
4915Modelines:
49168 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4917 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4918 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004919- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4920 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4921 'shiftwidth'.
4922- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4923 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4925 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4926 modeline setting.
4927- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4928 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4929- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4930 .cpp files.
4931- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4932 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4933- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4934 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4935
4936
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004937Sessions:
49388 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4939 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
49407 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4941 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049428 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4943 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049448 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4945 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4946 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000049477 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4948 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000049497 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004950
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004951
4952Options:
49537 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4954 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049558 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4956 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4957 also be supported.
49588 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4959 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4960 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
49617 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
49627 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4963 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004964 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004965
4966
4967External commands:
49688 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4969 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
49704 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4971 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4972 -f).
49734 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
49744 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4975 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
49764 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4977
4978
4979Multiple Windows:
49807 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
49818 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4982 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
49837 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4984 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4985 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049867 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4987 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000049887 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4989 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049906 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4991 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004992 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004993 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
49947 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4995 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4996 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4997 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4998- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4999 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5000 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5001 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5002
5003
5004Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050058 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050068 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5007 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050088 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 +000050098 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5010 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
50118 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5012 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5013 the mark was set.
50147 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5015 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5016 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5017 ":browse marks"?
50186 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050197 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5020 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
50217 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5022 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
50237 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5024 command).
50257 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5026 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5027 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5028 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
50295 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5030 mappings.
50316 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5032 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5033 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5034
5035
5036Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020050377 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005038 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005039- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5040 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000050418 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050427 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5043 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5044
5045
5046Writing files:
5047- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5048 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5049 shortname conversion.
50508 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
50518 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5052 file.
50538 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5054 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5055 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050566 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5057 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
50586 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5059 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
50606 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5061 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050628 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005063 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
50647 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5065 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
50667 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5067 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5068 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5069 waiting for a character to be typed).
50708 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5071 line of the window, like "[time]".
5072 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5073 Automatic and/or with a command.
5074
5075
5076Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000050778 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5078 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050798 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005080 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5081- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5082- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
50838 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5084 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005085- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005086 :s///N substitutes N times.
5087- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5088 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5089 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
50907 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5091 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5092 last line column 5.
50935 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5094 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5095 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5096 (Stanislav Sitar)
5097
5098
5099Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051008 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
51017 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
51028 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5103 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5104 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5106- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5107 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5108- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5109- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5110
5111
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005112Argument list:
51136 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5114 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5115 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
51166 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5117
5118
5119Registers:
51208 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051218 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5122 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5123 for every line.
51246 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5125 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5126 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5127- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5128 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5129- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5130 leader when line wraps?
5131- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5132 line in the range.
5133- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5134 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
51358 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5136 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005137
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005138
5139Debug mode:
51407 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
51418 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000051428 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051437 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005144 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5145 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5146 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051477 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
51487 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5149
5150
5151Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000051527 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5153 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5154 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5155 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5156 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5157 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5158 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005159 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000051607 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5161 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000051627 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5163 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051648 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5165 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051667 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5167 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5168 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005169- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005170 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051717 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5172 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051737 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5174 window as a buffer-tab selection.
51758 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051767 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5177 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5178 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005179 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5180 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051817 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5182 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
51838 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5184 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051856 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051868 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5187 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5188 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5189 in this Vim.
51908 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005191 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051928 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5193 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5194 have it apply to the following command.
51958 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5196 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5197 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5198 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051997 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5200 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052017 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5202 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5203 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5204 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052056 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
52068 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
52079 Support ACLs on more systems.
52087 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5209 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052107 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5211 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5212 (truncated to fit in the space).
52137 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
52148 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
52158 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5216 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000052177 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
52197 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5220 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052217 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052227 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
52237 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052248 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
52258 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5226 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5227 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5228 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
52298 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
52306 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5231 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005232 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005233 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052348 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052358 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5236 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5237 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5238 does something like this. (Shah)
52397 Use growarray for replace stack.
52407 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5241 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
52423 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052437 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5244 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052457 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5246 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5248- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5249- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5250- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
52517 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5252 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5253- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5254 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005255- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005256- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5257 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5258- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5259 call "play newbeep.au").
5260- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5261 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5262 (Bhatt).
5263- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5264 blockwise registers).
5265- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5266 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5267- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5268 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5269 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5270 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052727 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5273 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5274- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5275 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5276 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5277 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5278 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052798 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5280 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052818 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5282 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5283 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5284 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5285 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5286- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005287- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052887 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5289 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5290- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5291 not in column 1.
52926 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5293 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
52947 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5295- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005296- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005297 :redir #> bufname
5298 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005299- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5300 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005301- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5302 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5303 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
53046 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5305 console? (Klaus Hast)
5306- Add :delcr command:
5307 *:delcr*
5308 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5309 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5310 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5311 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5312 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5313 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5314- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5315- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5316 characters from 'isprint'.
5317- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5318- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5319 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5320- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5321 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5322 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5323- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5324- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5325 Nvi).
5326- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5327 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
53287 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5329- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5330 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
53316 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5332- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5333 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5334 macro).
5335- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005336- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5337 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5338- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
53398 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005340- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5341- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5342- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5343 if it is not the first or last window.
5344- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5345 there is one) instead of the file itself.
53467 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5347 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5348 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5349- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5350- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005351 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005352 many percent down the windows).
5353- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5354 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5355 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005356 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5358 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5359- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5360 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5361- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5362- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5363- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5364 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053658 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5366 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5367 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5368 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5369 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005370- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5371 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5372- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005373 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5374- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005375 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5376 (Webb).
5377- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005378 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005379- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5380 hex codes like 0xff).
5381- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5382 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5383 the last TYPED command.
5384- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5385- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5386- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5387 should also work?
5388- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
53898 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5390 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5391 name.
5392- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5393 trailing '.'.
5394- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5395 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5396 find_file_in_path().
5397- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5398 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5399- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5400- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5401 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5402- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005403 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005404- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5405 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5406 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005407- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5408- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5409- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5410 to the minimal size.
5411- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5412- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5413- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5414- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5415- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5417 entered)?
5418- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5419 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005420- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5422- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5423- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5424- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5425- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5426 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005427- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054288 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5429 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5430 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5431 or in octal.
54327 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5433 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005434- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005435 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5436- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5437- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5438 insert line command).
5439- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5440- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5441- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5442- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5443- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5444 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005445- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005446 yet.
5447- Implement 'redraw' option.
5448- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5449 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054507 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5451 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005452 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5453 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054548 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5455 do it.
5456- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5457- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5458 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5459- Add text justification option.
5460- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5461- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5462 off".
5463- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5464- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5465- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005466 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005467- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005468- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5470- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5471 commands.
5472- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5473- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5474- :table command (Webb)
5475- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005476- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5477- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5478- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5479- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5480- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5481 (Demirel).
5482- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5483- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5484 for use in macro's and the like.
5485- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005486 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005487- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005488 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005489- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005490 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005491 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5492- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5493 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005494- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005495 mkopttab to make option table?
5496- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5497 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5498- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5499 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005500- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5502- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5503 cursor?
5504- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5505- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
55065 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5507 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055088 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5509 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5510 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5511 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5512 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055138 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5514 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5515 (Netherton)
55166 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5517 space after "(", for example.
55185 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5519 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5520 (Servatius Brandt)
5521
5522
5523From Elvis:
5524- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5525- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526- Search patterns:
5527 \@ match word under cursor.
5528 but do:
5529 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5530 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
55318 ":window" command:
5532 :win + next window (up)
5533 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5534 :win - previous window (down)
5535 :win -- idem, wrapping
5536 :win nr to window number "nr"
5537 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
55387 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5539 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5540
5541
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005542From xvi:
5543- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5544- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5545
5546
5547From vile:
5548- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5549- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5550 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5551
5552
5553Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005554- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5555 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5556 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5557 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5558 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005559- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5560 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5561- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5562 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5563 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5564 current layout mirrored.
5565- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5566- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5567 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5568- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5569- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5570 font in each top-level window.
5571- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5572- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5573- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5574- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5575 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5576- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5577 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5578 mentioned in the tags file.
5579 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5580 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5581- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5582 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5583- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5584 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
55854 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5586 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5587 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5588 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005589 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5591 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5592- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5593 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5594 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5595
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005596When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5597empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005598
5599vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5600vim: set fo+=n :