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Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 Jan 10
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020037Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
40
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +010041Compilation problem on z/OS, POUND is equal to '#', duplicate case.
42(Stephen Bovy, 2011 Dec 16)
43
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010044Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
45check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
46
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010047Patch to fix regression caused by 7.3.251. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Jan 5)
48
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010049Patch to make ":helpgrep" work with non-UTF-8 encoding. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
502011 Nov 28, update later that day)
51
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010052Patch to fix messing up terminal when redrawing too early. (Christian
53Brabandt, 2012 Jan 5)
54
55Patch to fix member confusion in Lua interface. (Taro Muraoka, 2012 Jan 8)
56Update Jan 9.
57Carvalho will merge the patch.
58
59Possible quickfix bug: Audrius Kažukauskas, 2012 Jan 6
60
61Problem reading german spell file? (Jan Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
62
63Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
64complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
65Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
66
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010067":doau" says it triggers modeline. Should this only happen for events used
68when loading a buffer? (Kana Natsuno, 2011 Nov 7)
69
70Patch to fix "it" and "at" when there is a dash in the tag name.
71(Christian Brabandt, 2011 Nov 20)
72
73Patch to make 'shcf' default work better. (Benjamin Fritz, 2011 Nov 18)
74 Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
75 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
76 Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
77 contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
78 Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
79
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020080Other way to start Mzscheme. Tim Brown, 2011 Oct 5: change main call.
81Later patch by Sergey Khorev, 2011 Oct 9.
82
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010083Patch to make InsertCharPre work better. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 21)
84
85Patch to fix closed folds with "loadview". (Xavier de Gaye, 2011 Nov 25)
86
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020087Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
88Or use expand('<sid>')?
89
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020090Patch for glob() returning a list. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, second
91one)
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020092
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020093Patch to highlight cursor line number. (Howard Buchholz (lhb), 2011 Oct 18)
94
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010095Patch for urxvt mouse support after shell command. (Issue 31)
96
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +010097When exiting with unsaved changes, selecting an existing file in the file
98dialog, there is no dialog to ask whether the existing file should be
99overwritten. (Felipe G. Nievinski, 2011 Dec 22)
100
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001017 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
102 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
103 side effect.
104Patch by Kana Natsuno, 2011 Nov 12.
105
106Patch for option in 'cino' to specify more indent for continued conditions.
107(Lech Lorens, 2011 Nov 27)
108Isn't this already possible?
109
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100110Patch for using objcpp file type for headers files. Issue 44.
111
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200112Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
113v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
114
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200115Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
116- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
117 below/above).
118
119Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
1208 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
121 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
122
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200123Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
124
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100125Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
126(Kikyous)
127
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100128":tab drop buffer.c" always opens a new tab, also if buffer.c is already in an
129open window. (Herb Sitz, 2011 Nov 17)
130
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200131Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
132Patch Sep 18.
133
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200134Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
135And one for gui_x11.txt.
136
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200137Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200138
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200139Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
140they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
141
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100142Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
143Nov 20)
144
145`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
146(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
147
148Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
149
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200150Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
151(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
152
153"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
154characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
155
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100156Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
157Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
158
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100159Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
160
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100161Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
162Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
163
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200164'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
165'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
166Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200167Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200168
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200169With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
170(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
171need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
172
173Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
174only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
17521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
176
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100177Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
178New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
179
180Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
181Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
182
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200183Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200184
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100185"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
186Oct 26)
187
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200188Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
189
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200190With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
191register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200192
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200193In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
194Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
195 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
196(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
197The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
198This probably reflects a bug in the program.
199The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
200 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
201 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
202 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
203 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
204 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
205 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
206Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
207
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200208popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
209Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
210
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200211Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
212
213This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
214call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
215
216When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
217(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
218
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100219Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
220Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
221
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200222Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
223
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200224Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
225doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
226Jun 17)
227
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200228Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
229":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
23015)
231
232Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
233
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200234Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
235
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200236On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
23764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
238right type.
239
240string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
241(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
242
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200243Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
244
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200245When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
246(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
247
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200248When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
249doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
250
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002517 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
252Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
253
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200254maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
255mapping, how to restore the script ID?
256
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200257Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
258(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
259
260Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
261it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
262
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200263When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
264indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
265the help file.
266
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200267After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
268Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
269
270Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
271
272"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
273
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200274Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
27530)
276
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200277Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
278May 24) Update May 26.
279
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200280When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
281following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
282(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
283
284Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
285
286Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
2872010 Dec 18)
288
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200289With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
290number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
291Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
292
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002938 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
294Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
295
2968 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
297 after typing something.
298Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
299function that resets did_cursorhold.
300Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
301
3027 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
303Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
304Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
305
3069 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
307 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
308Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
309
310Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
311Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
312
313Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
314Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
315
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200316In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
317or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
318sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
319
320GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
321doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
322
323GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
324
325Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
326Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
327
328Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
329
3307.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
331there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
332do?
333
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200334Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
33522)
336
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100337New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
338- move compflags to separate growarray?
339- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
340 the maximum repeat for * and +?
341
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100342"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3432011 Feb 27)
344
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200345Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200346characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200347When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
348properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
349Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
350clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200351
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200352Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
353^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
354
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100355When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
356exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3579) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
358
359g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
360the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
361
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100362Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
363crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
364
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100365Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
366correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
367
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200368Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
369names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
370Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
371the system encoding (usually utf-8).
372
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200373Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
374Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
375
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200376'beval' option should be global-local.
377
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100378Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200379
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200380setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200381
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003827 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
383 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
384 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
385
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200386getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
387element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
388Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
389and that it's documented.
390
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200391With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
3922010 Oct 24)
393
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100394Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
395Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
396
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200397Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
398
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200399When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
400Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
401
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200402Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
403delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
404mkdir().
405
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200406":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
407
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200408'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
409
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100410C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
411checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
412Issue 46.
413
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100414When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
415right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
416
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200417Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
418
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100419Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
420gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
421
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200422":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
423accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
424
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200425Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
426setwinvar().
427
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200428Echo starts in the wrong column:
429 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
430(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
431
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100432Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
433
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100434When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
435(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
436
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200437Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200438(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200439
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200440When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
441instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
442
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100443Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
444
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200445Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
446Winckler, 2011 May 11)
447Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100448
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100449Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
450back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
451
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100452Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
453one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
454Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
455
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100456Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200457Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
458
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100459CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
460the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
461FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
462
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200463Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
464Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
465
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200466Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
467Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
468
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100469I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
470Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
471an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100472
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200473Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
474
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100475Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
476non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100477
478iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
479Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
480or replace with a character and continue?
481
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100482Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
483Requires configure check for localtime().
484Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100486Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
487Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
488path.
489
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100490Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
491Dominique can't reproduc it.
492
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200493":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
494like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
495
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100496Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200497Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
498
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100499Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5002010 Nov 5)
501
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100502Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
503Jan 7)
504
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100505Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
506Only with "vim -u NONE".
507
508Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
509
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100510With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
511entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
512Feb 12)
513
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200514Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
515characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
516
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100517Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
518
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200519Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
520 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
521
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200522Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
523mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
524Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100525
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200526Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
527it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
528(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100529Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
530find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200531
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200532Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
533
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200534When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
535Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
536
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100537Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
538echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100540When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
541not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
542string value.
543
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200544":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
545getpwent() to find all the matches.
546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100547Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
548
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100549For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
550line argument -noregister.
551
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100552When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
553missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
554
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200555When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
556doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100557
558Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
559(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
560Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
561There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
562Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
563
564":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
565highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
566to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
567
568Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
569Probably needs a bit of work.
570
571List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
572Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
573
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200574Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
575
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100576Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
577
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200578Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
579Sep 1)
580
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200581Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
582on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
583
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100584Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
5852009 Jul 18)
586
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100587Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
588Added test, updates, June 23.
589
590Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
591window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
592Needs more work.
593
594Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
595
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100596When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
597few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
598
599'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
600(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
601
602Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
603J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
604
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200605When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
606for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
607
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200608Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
609
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200610Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
611
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100612When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
613
614":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
615because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
616ex_docmd.c.
617
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200618Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100619Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
620
621string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
622for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
623
624Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
625
626'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
62720)
628
629Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
630And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
63123)
632
633Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6342009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
635
636Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
637
638Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
639SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
640
641When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
642cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
643
644When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
645indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
646(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
647
648Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
649are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
650Ignore window options when not in the right window?
651Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
652that doesn't have a window.
653
654When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
655doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
656
657getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
658displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
659
660":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
661
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100662There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
663was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
664perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
665
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200666Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
667
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200668Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
669file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
670system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
671
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100672Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
673work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
674Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
675
676Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
677
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100678Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
679command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
680
681Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
682
683Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
684does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
685
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200686opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
687height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200688very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200689
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100690Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
691(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
692
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100693Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
694(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
695
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100696Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
697char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
698
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100699A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
700
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100701Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
702messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
703es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7042009 Jan 26)
705
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100706When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100707in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
708Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100710Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
711a modeline.
712
713Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
714Sergey Khorev)
715
716Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
717part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000718
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000719netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
720number to be below last visible line.
721
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100722After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
723correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
724
725Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
726(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
727
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100728shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
729'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
730Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
731unix-like shell?
732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100733Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
734that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
735
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200736Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
737register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
738(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
739
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100740Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
741Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
742
743Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
744make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
745
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100746When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
747still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
748
749"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
750(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
751
752Update src/testdir/main.aap.
753
754"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
755
756Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
757that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
758ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
759Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
760
761Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
762
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000763Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100765MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
766doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
767probably causes this.
768
769'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007702009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100771
772Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
773 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
774 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
775(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
776
777Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
778":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
779option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
780is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000781
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100782":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
783first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000784
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000785Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
786laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
787Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000788
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100789Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
790anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
791
792On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
793doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
794Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
795Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
796
797":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
798
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000799When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
800'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
801fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
802the buffer to be unmodified.
803Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
804another look at it.
805
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100806Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
807
808c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
809(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
810
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100811You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
812error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
813Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
814at the other match for 0xBF.
815
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000816Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000817
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100818When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
819argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
820
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000821Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
822backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
823
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200824Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
825Aug 23)
826
827When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
828line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
829
830Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
831position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
832
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000833After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
834(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000835command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000836
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000837":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
838Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
839
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100840Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
841Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
842
843When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
844either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
845put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
846
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000847Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
848Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
849Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
850Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
851(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
852
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100853Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
854
855ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000857Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
858(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
859escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
860an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000861This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
862July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000864Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8652008 May 14)
866
867Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
868Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
869'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
870
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100871Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
872Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000874Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
875Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
876
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100877Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
878
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000879The utf class table is missing some entries:
880 0x2212, minus sign
881 0x2217, star
882 0x2500, bar
883 0x26ab, circle
884
885Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
886line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
887
888GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
889Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
890
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100891Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
892try the Cocoa version.
893
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000894Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
895changed or the window is resized.
896
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100897GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
898the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
899
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000900Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
901Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000902
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000903Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9041) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
905
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000906C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
907with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
908Try to reproduce at work.
909
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100910Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
911Is there a way to list all the files first?
912
913When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
914result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
91516)
916
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200917Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
918Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
919
920Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
921(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
922
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000923Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
924Await response to question to make the register writable.
925
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100926src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
927remark why.
928
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000929Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9301)
931
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100932In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
933each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
934
935try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
936
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100937try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100939":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
940Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
941
942":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
943in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
944
945Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
946
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000947Including NFA regexp code:
948Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
949Useful in tests.
950Performance tests:
951- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
952- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
953- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100954- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000955- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
956 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000957
958Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
959Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
960
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000961Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
962Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
963Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000964
965C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
966(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
967
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100968Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
969":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200970Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100971
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000972When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
973and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000975Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
976 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
977
978New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
979
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200980":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
981a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
982
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000983'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
984Likonen, March 19)
985
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100986Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
987other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
988
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000989The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
990appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
991matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
992
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100993When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
994character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
995'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
996(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
997
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000998Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
999Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001000
1001More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1002
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001003Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1004http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1005
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001006Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1007back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1008Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001009
1010Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1011No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1012
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001013Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1014terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001015
1016Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1017
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001018Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1019but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1020that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001021
1022When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001024Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1025Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001027Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1028popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1029size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1030This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1031
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001032Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1033a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1034isn't right?
1035
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001036When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1037it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1038
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001039Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1040then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1041files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001042Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1043indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1044":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1045in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1046quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1047Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001048
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001049When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1050parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1051neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1052particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1053Jun 3)
1054However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1055the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001056
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001057A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1058Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1059
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001060Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1061Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1062
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001063Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1064switch list is noticed:
1065 switch (i)
1066 {
1067 case 1:
1068 foobar:
1069 }
1070
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001071Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1072
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001073Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1074with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1075go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1076moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1077
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001078Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001079Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010808 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1081 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1082 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001083
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001084Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
108564-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1086
1087Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1088Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1089Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1090argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1091(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1092
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001093Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1094(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1095
1096Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1097makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1098.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1099 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1100
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001101Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11022007 Feb 8)
1103
1104Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1105 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001106 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001107 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1108
1109Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1110set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001111
1112Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1113
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001114Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1115
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001116Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1117Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1118New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1119patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1120
1121Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1122Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1123
1124Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1125Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1126Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1127
1128Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1129
1130Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11312007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001132Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001133
1134Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001135label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1136
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001137Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1138with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1139Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001140
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001141Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1142pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1143
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001144Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1145
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001146Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001147Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001148Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1149
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001150Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1151Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1152only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1153
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001154Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1155Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1156
1157Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1158Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1159Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1160properly?
1161
1162Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11632007 Jun 21)
1164
1165When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1166Jun 18)
1167
1168If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001170Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1171windows. (Adam George)
1172
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001173F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1174modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1175K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001176
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001177UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1178to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1179
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001180In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1181the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1182
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001183C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1184
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001185":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1186
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001187When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001188error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001189
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001190Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1191use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1192
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001193Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1194if_ruby.c.
1195
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001196":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1197
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001198Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1199Needs more work.
1200
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001201The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1202it in keep_msg?
1203
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001204Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001205error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001206name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1207
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001208Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1209longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001210
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001211Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1212Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1213Also for ":w" without a file name.
1214The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001215
1216"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1217Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1218
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001219VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1220directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1221(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1222
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001223VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1224
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001225input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1226name?
1227
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001228Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1229
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001230When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1231(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1232Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1233will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1234
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001235gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1236This also fails with --remote.
1237
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001238When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12392008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1240all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1241
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001242":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1243Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1244
1245aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001247When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1248(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1249
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001250Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1251the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1252
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001253GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1254
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001255Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1256superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1257
1258Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1259character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1260
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001261Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1262Jun 5)
1263
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001264Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12652008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1266Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1267
1268In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1269but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1270Jul 22)
1271
1272There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1273
1274Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1275":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1276somehow? Or use a new function.
1277
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001278Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001280Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1281that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001282
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001283Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1284moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1285that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1286
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001287The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1288
1289Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1290loading all files.
1291
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001292Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1293line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1294after starting up?
1295
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001296When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001297cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1298the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1299
1300Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1301has been created.
1302
1303Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1304shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1305fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1306background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1307A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001308
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001309These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1310 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1311 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1312 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1313
1314Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1315partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1316
1317In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1318buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1319reload it then?
1320
1321New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1322previous version.
1323
1324For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1325
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001326Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1327only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1328
1329Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1330tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1331doesn't contain other directories.
1332
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001333Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1334 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1335 set background=dark
1336This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1337color is, not reset it.
1338
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001339Linux distributions:
1340- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1341 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1342 xfree-xterm".
1343- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1344
1345Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1346start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1347show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1348middle?
1349
1350When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001351(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001352connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1353dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1354
1355Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001357When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1358current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1359the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1360
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001361When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1362Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1363
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001364Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1365 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1366 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1367 - getting colors in xterm
1368 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1369
1370Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1371Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1372
1373Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1374
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001375A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1376Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1377
1378Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1379Dara, 2006 June 21)
1380
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001381Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1382number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1383
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001384After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1385the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1386
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001387Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1388Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1389about this.
1390
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001391Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1392copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1393error and stop using the connection to the server.
1394
1395Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1396Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1397
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001398Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010013992008 Sep 29)
1400
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001401In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1402check the result of has("patch13").
1403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001404Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1405restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1406
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001407Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1408and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1409
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001410Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1411put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001413Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1414resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1415
1416In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1417can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1418
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001419Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14202011 May 23)
1421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001422GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1423maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1424doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001425Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1426visible.
1427
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001428When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1429differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001430
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001431The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1432be only one.
1433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001434"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1435script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1436
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001437It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1438the function name before resolving it to a number?
1439 let d = {}
1440 fun! d.foo()
1441 echo "here"
1442 endfun
1443 call d.foo(9)
1444
1445Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1446only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001447Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1448used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1449
1450Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1451output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1452Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1453
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001454Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001455"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1456name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1457Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001458
1459Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1460(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1461
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001462Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1463as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1464
1465Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1466Jan 1)
1467
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001468Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
146923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001470
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001471":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1472tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1473Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001474
1475xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1476buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1477Xterm 224 supports it!
1478
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001479When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1480text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1481latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001483Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1484
1485Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1486no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1487
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001488In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1489VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
14902007 Oct 16)
1491
1492TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1493Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1494
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001495Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001497When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1498typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1499Sep 3, 11)
1500
1501When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1502respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1503the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1504what happens for the GUI.
1505
1506X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1507pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1508clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1509Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1510Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1511clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001513":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1514this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1515
1516When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1517Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1518restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1519
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001520Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15212010 Jun 30)
1522
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001523
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001524At next release:
1525- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1526 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001527- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1528 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001529
1530
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001531More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001532- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1533 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001534- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1535- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1536 21)
1537- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1538 patch May 10)
1539- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1540 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1541- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1542 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1543- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1544- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1545- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1546 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1547 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001548- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001549- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1550 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1551- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1552 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1553- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1554 21)
1555- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1556 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1557- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1558 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001559- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1560 Sep 13)
1561- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1562 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001563- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1564 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1565 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1566 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1567 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001568- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001569- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001570
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001571Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015729 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1573 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1574 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1575 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1576 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1577 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1578 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1579 (Alan Schmitt)
1580 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001581 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1582 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015839 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001584 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015858 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015868 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001587 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015887 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1589 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1590 How does this work? Missing comments.
1591- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001592 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001593 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001594 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001595 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015968 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001597 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015987 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1599 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1600- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1601 for multi-byte characters.
1602- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1603- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1604 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1605 been given values.
1606 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16078 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001608 with an ESC sequence.
1609 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1610 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1611 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016127 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1613 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1614- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1615 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1616 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16178 Add functions:
1618 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1619 Update 2004 Sep 10
1620 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1621 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001622 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001623 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001624 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1625 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001626 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1627 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1628 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1629 (2003 May 13)
1630 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1631 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001632 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1633 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001634 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1635 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1636 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016377 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1638 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1639- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1640 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16417 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1642 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016438 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1644 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016457 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16468 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1647 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16487 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1649 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16508 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1651 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1652 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16537 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1654- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1655 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1656 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001657- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1658 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1659- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1660
1661
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001662Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001663- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1664 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016658 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1666 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1667 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1668 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1669 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1670 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016718 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1672 make Vim exit.
16737 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1674 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1675 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16768 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1677 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1678 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16796 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1680 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1681 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16828 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1683 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1684 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1685 names in one buffer???
1686 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1687 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1688 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
16897 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1690 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1691 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001692 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1693 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016947 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1695 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
16967 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
16977 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
16987 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1699 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17007 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1701 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1702 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1703 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17047 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17057 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17067 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1707 to the match with the tag? Option?
17087 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17097 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1710 (Sayre).
17117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1712 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017137 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1714 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1715 match. Nvi can do it too.
17167 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1717 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1718 line 1\ line 2\\
1719 line 2\ line 3\\
1720 . line4/
17216 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1722 the way the shell is started?
17236 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1724 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1725
1726
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001727GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017289 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017298 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1730 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1731 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017328 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1733 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1734 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017359 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1736 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1737 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1738 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001739- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1740 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1741 blocked for now.
1742
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001743
1744Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001745- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1746 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017478 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1748 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017498 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1750 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17518 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1752 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1753 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17548 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1755 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17567 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1757 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1758 "lucida_console:h8").
17596 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1760 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017618 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1762 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1763 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017647 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1765 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1766 to use an opaque background in most places?
17678 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1768 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1769 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17708 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1771 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1772 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17737 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1774 2004 May 9)
17758 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1776 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1777 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1778 MS-Windows 98?
1779 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1780 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1781 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1782 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017838 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1784 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017858 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1786 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1787 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1788 doesn't work properly.
17898 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1790 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1791 appears in the right position. (Webb)
17929 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1793 button doesn't give popup menu.
1794 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1795 selection.
1796 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1797 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1798 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
17998 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1800 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1801 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1802 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18038 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1804 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1805 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018067 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1807 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1808 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18097 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1810 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001811 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018127 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1813 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018146 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18158 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1816 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1817 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18188 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1819 know which keyboard is being used?
18207 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1821 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1822 area (Koloseike).
18238 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1824 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1825 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1826 the font name).
1827
1828
1829Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018306 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1831 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1832 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1833 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1834 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018359 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1836 required and it's missing?
18378 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1838 wrong.
18399 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1840 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018419 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001842 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1843 flag.
18448 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1845 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1846 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18478 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18486 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1849 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1850 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1851 the tooltips work though...
18527 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1853 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18548 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1855 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1856 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1857
1858
1859Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018609 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1861 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018629 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1863 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1864 through files.
18657 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1866 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18674 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1868 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1869 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1870 problem during a refresh.
18715 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1872 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1873 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1874 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1875 colors as it should.
1876 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1877 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1878
1879
1880Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001881- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018827 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1883 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018848 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1885 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1886 (Phillipps)
1887
1888
1889GUI:
18909 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1891 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
18929 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001893 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001894 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
18959 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1896 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
18978 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1898 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
18998 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1900 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1901 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19028 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1903 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1904 of where it is processing the output.
1905 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19068 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1907 doesn't work.
19088 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019098 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1910 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1911 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019128 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019138 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1914 browse().
19158 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1916 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19178 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1918 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019197 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1920 - regexp on/off
1921 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1922 when all buffers/directory is used:
1923 - filter for file name
1924 when directory is used:
1925 - subdirectory on/off
1926 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019278 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1928 to avoid problems.
19298 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1930 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1931 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19328 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1933 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1934 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19358 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1936 up. Set erase character somehow?
19378 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1938 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1939 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1940 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19418 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19427 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1943 visible.
19447 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1945 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19467 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1947 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19488 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1949 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19508 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1951 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1952 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1953 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1954- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19554 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1956 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1957 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1958
1959
1960MSDOS/DJGPP:
19619 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1962 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1963 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19648 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1965 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19669 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001967 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1968 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019699 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1970 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1971 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1972 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19739 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1974 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1975 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1976 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1977 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1978 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1979 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1980 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1981 key code. Use a translation table?
19829 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1983 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19848 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19858 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1986 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
19878 setlocale() is bogus.
19888 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1989 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1990 Windows 95 system!
19918 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000019927 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001993 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
19947 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1995 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1996 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
19978 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1998 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
19997 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2000 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2001 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2002 "[New file]".
20037 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2004 that is supported?
20058 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20068 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2007 Briscoe)
2008
2009
2010MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20118 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2012 gen_expand_wildcards().
20138 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2014 Wagner.
20158 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20168 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2017 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020188 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2019 a good fallback, thus use:
2020 $HOME
2021 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2022 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2023 $USERPROFILE
2024 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2025 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2026 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2027 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020288 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2029 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20308 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2031 Should work like in the GUI version.
20328 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2033 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20348 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2035 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20368 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2037 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2038 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020398 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2040 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2041 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2042
2043
2044Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020458 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002046 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2047 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20488 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2049 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2050
2051
2052Win32 console:
20539 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2054 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2055 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2056 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2057 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2058 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2059 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2060 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2061 and the file is not saved.
2062 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2063 long name.
20648 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2065 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20667 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2067 besides the console.
20688 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20699 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2070 <C-S-i>?
20719 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2072 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20738 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2074 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020757 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2076 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2077 exiting.
2078
2079
2080Amiga:
20818 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2082 sequences.
20839 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2084 backslashes in result.
20858 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2086 all options, using white space separation.
2087
2088
2089Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002090- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020917 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2092 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2093 (Jack)
2094 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000020958 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2096 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020978 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
20988 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
20999 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2100 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021019 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002102
2103
2104"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002105- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2106 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002107- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2108 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002109- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2110 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2111 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2112 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2113 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2114 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2115 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021169 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2117 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021189 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002119 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2120 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021218 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2122 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2123 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002124 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021258 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2126 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21277 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2128 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21298 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2130 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2131 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021327 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2133 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002134- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2135 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021368 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2137 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2138 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2139 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21407 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2141 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2142 invocations belong together.
21438 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2144 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21458 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2146 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2147 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2148 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2149 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021508 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021518 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2152 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2153 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021546 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021558 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2156 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021577 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2158 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2159 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2160 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21618 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2162 defined.
21637 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2164 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2165 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21667 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2167 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2168 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21697 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2170 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021717 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2172 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021739 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2174 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2175 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2176 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2177 script can be called.
21788 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2179 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2180 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021818 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2182 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021838 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002184 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2185 configurable?
21868 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
21879 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2188 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2189 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021908 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2191 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021928 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2193 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021948 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2195 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021969 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2197 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2198 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021997 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022008 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2201 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2202 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022038 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2204 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002205 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2206 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022078 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2208 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22099 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2210 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2211 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002212 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022137 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2214 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022157 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2216 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2217 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2218 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022198 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002220 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2221 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2222 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2223 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002224 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2225 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002226 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002227 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002228 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2229 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2230 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2231 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2232 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22338 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2234 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22359 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2236 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2237 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022388 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2239 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22408 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2241 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22428 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2243 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2244 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22458 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2246 'linebreak'.
22478 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2248 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2249 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022509 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2251 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2252 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2253 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22549 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2255 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22569 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2257 isn't updated).
22589 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22599 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2260 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2261 cause another redraw, etc.
22628 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2263 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22648 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2265 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2266 ":w!!" for that.
2267 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2268 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002269 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022707 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2271 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2272 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2273 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2274 clipboard)
22757 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2276 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2277 Waggoner)
22788 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2279 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2280 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022816 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2282 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2283 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022848 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2285 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
22868 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2287 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2288 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000022898 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022908 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2291 (e.g., ":w").
22928 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2293 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
22948 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2295 for ">>".
22968 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2297 script in do_cmdline().
22988 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2299 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2300 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2301 changes.
23028 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2303 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23048 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2305 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23067 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2307 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2308 needed.
2309 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23108 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2311 to skip catch_signals()?
23129 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2313 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2314 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2315 text?
23168 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2317 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23188 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2319 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23209 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2321 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2322 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2323 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2324 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23257 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2326 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2327 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2328 in the list?
23298 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2330 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2331 instead of on button down.
23328 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23339 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2334 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002335 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2336 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023378 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2338 character is typed.
23398 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2340 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23418 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2342 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23438 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2344 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2345 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2346 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2347 cygwin bash.
23487 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2349 Remember flags for backreferences.
23507 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2351 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23527 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2353 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23548 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2355 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23567 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2357 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023587 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2359 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2360 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23617 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2362 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23638 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2364 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2365 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23667 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2367 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002368
2369
2370I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23719 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2372 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2373 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002374
2375
2376Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002377- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2378 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2379 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002380- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2381 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2382 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2383 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2384 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2385 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002386 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002387- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2388 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002389 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002390 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2391 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2392 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002393- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2394 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2395 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2396 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2397 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2398- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2399 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2400 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2401- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2402 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002403- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002404- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2405 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2406 character gets the highlighting.
2407- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2408 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2409- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2410 (Jennings)
2411- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2412- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2413 errors. How do we get the rest?
2414- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002415- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002416 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2417- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2418 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2419 first?
2420- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2421 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2422- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2423 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2424 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2425- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2426 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2427 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2428 (Benzinger).
2429- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2430 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2431 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2432- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2433 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2434- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2435 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2436- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2437 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2438 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2439 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2440 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2441 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2442- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2443 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2444 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002445- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2446 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2447 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002448- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2449 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2450 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2451- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2452 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2453- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2454 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2455- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2456 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2457- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2458 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2459- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2460 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2461 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2462 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2463 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2464- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2465 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2466 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2467- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2468 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2469 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002470- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2471 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 +00002472- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2473 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2474 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2475 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2476 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2477- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2478 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2479
2480--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2481 *extensions-improvements*
2482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002483Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2484- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2485 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2486 calling a function.
2487 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2488 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002489- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2490 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2491- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2492 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2493 http://clewn.sf.net.
2494 And the idevim plugin/script.
2495 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2496 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2497 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2498 other window.
2499 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2500 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2501 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2502 in terminal mode.
2503- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2504 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2505 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2506 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2507 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2508 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002509 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002510- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2511 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2512 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2514 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002515- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2516 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2517 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025188 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2519 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2520 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2521 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002522- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2523 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002524
2525
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002526Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025278 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2528 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025298 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2530 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025318 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2532 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025338 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025347 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25359 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2536 - change to cursor position and curswant
2537 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2538 - how it works for folded lines
2539 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25409 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2541 work too.
25428 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2543 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2544 text.
25458 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25467 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2547 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25487 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2549 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002550 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002551- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2552
2553
2554Help:
2555- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2556 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2557- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2558 to the other matches.
2559- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2560- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2561- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2562 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2563 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2564 default contents.
2565- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2566 height for the help window (and other windows).
2567- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2568- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2569- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2570
2571
2572User Friendlier:
25738 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2574 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2575 Briscoe)
25768 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25778 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2578 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2579 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25808 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2581 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2582- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2583 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25848 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2585 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2586 'runtimepath'.
2587 " Vim plugin
2588 <main plugin code>
2589 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2590 <plugin docs>
2591- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
25929 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2593 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2594 item?).
2595 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025968 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
25977 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025987 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2599 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2600 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026018 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2602 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2603 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2604 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002605
2606
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002607Tab pages:
26089 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026097 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2610 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026118 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026128 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026138 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26148 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26157 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026167 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002617 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026187 Add local variables for each tab page?
26198 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2620 tab pages.
26217 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026227 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2623 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002624
2625
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002626Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002627- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2628 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2629 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2630 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002631- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2632 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2633- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2634 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2635 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2636- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2637 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002638- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2639 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2640 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002641- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2642 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2643 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002644- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2645 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002646- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002647 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2648 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026498 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2650 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26518 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2652 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26538 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2654 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002655 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002656 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2657 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2658 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2659 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002660- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2661 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002662- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002663- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2664 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002665- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002666 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002667- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002668 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002669- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2670 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002671- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2672 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2673- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002674 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002675 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2676 in the affix file separately.
2677 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002678 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002679 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2680 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2681 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2682- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2683 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2684 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2685 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2686 Alternative:
2687 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2688 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2689 affix which is required.
2690- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002691 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002692- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2693 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2694 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002695- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2696 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002697- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2698 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2699- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027008 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2701 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2702 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2703 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002704- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2705 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2706 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2707 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027088 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2709 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027108 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27118 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2712 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027137 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27148 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2715 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2716 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2717 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002718
2719
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002720Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027219 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2722 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002723 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027248 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2725 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2726 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002727 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2728 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027297 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2730 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2731 location.
2732
2733
2734Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002735 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2736 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027378 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2738 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027398 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027409 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2741 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027428 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2743 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2744 user aware of this?
27458 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2746 commands skip over a closed fold.
27478 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27488 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027497 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002750- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2751 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2752 missing line goes unnoticed.
2753 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002754- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2755 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2756 smoother?
2757- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2758 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002759- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2760 file can contain:
2761 args version.c main.c
2762 edit version.c
2763 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002764- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002765- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2766 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002767- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2768 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002769- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2770 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002771- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027728 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002773 searches.
2774
2775
2776Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002777- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2778 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2779 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2780 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027819 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2782 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2783 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2784 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027859 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2786 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2787 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027888 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2789 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2790 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2791 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2792 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2793 item.
27948 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002795 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2796 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027978 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2798 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002799 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002800 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028018 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2802 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028038 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2804 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2805 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028067 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2807 so that the user can fix the problem.
28088 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2809 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028109 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28118 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028128 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28138 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028147 Searching and composing characters:
2815 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2816 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2817 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2818 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2819 characters can be manipulated.
2820 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2821 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028228 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28238 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28248 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2825 characters.
28268 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28278 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2828 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28297 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2830 'display' option to specify this.
28317 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2832 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2833- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2834 fontselector somehow.
2835- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2836 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2837- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2838 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2839- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2840 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2841 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2842 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2843 if a font exists?
2844- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002845 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002846- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2847 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28487 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2849 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002850- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2851 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2852 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2853 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002854- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2855 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2856 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2857- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2858 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2859 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2860 But it's very complicated...
2861
2862
2863Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028647 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002865- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2866- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2867 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002868- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2869 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002870- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2871- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2872 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2874 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002875- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2876 units as for the margins.
2877- Support right-to-left text?
28788 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2879 color.
2880
2881
2882Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028838 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2884 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28858 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2886 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
28878 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2888 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000028897 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2890 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028918 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2892 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2893 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028947 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2895 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2896 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028978 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
28989 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2899 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029007 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2901 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029027 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2903 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029048 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2905 change this for each release.
29068 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2907 pattern, but not in the body.
29088 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2909 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2910 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029118 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29128 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2913 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2914 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2915 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29168 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2917 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29188 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2919 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002920 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029218 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2922 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2923 used.
29248 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2925 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29268 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2927 re-insert the [] if possible.
29288 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2929 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029308 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2931 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2932 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2933 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2934 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029358 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2936 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29378 Support for deleting syntax items:
2938 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2939 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2940 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29418 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2942 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2943 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29447 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2945 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2946 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29477 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2948 detected.
29498 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002950 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029518 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2952 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029538 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29548 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29557 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2956 ":mkvimrc".
29578 Improve c.vim:
2958 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2959 "c_strict_ansi".
2960 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29618 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2962 current line while in Insert mode.
29638 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2964 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29658 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2966 display position.
29678 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2968 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2969 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29708 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2971 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2972 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029738 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2974 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2975 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029767 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2977 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2978 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2979 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2980 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029817 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2982 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2983 E.g. for this html:
2984 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029857 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
29867 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2987 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029888 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
29898 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029907 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2991 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2992 completion?
29938 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2994 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
29957 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2996 select one of the sets.
29978 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2998 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2999 2, etc.
30008 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3001 highlighting (for "." command).
30028 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3003 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30048 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30057 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3006 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30076 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3008 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3009- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3010 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3011- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003012- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3013 (for comment blocks).
3014- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3015 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3016 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3017 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3018 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3019 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3020 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3021 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3022 (Campbell)
3023 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3024 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30257 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3026 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30277 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3028 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3029 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30307 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3031 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3032 messages. And external commands?
30338 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3034 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30357 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3036 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3037
3038
3039Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030408 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3041 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030427 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3043 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3044 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030458 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3046 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003047- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3048 2006 Dec 11.
3049- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030508 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3051 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3052 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3053 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3054 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3055 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030567 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3057 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030588 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30598 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3060 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3061 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3062 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3063 nested packages?
3064 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3065 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3066 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030677 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3068 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3069 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3070 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3071 autocommand.
3072 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3073 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3074 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3075 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030767 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3077 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030786 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3079 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030808 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003081 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3082 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3083 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3084 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3085 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3086 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3087 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003088 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3089 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3090 3 2002
3091 Only add this when also implemented for
3092 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3093 be used.
3094 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003095 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3096 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3097 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3098 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3099 File.Open..." argument.
3100 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3101 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3102 with properties instead.
3103 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3104 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3105 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003106 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003107 crypt() encrypt string
3108 decrypt() decrypt string
3109 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3110 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003111 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003112 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003113 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003114 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003115 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003116 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3117 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003118 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3119 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003120 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003121 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3122 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003123 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3124 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3125 to allow the library to execute a command or
3126 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031277 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3128 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31298 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3130 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031318 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3132 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031338 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031347 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3135 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31366 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031378 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3138 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031398 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3140 option or environment variable.
31418 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031428 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003143 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031447 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3145 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031468 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3147 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31488 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31498 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3150 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3151 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3152 charwise({expr}).
31537 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3154 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3155 buffer for this?
3156 result = scratch(string, command)
3157 result = apply(string, command)
3158 result = execute(string, command)
3159 "command" would use <> notation.
3160 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31617 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003162
3163
3164Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031656 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3166 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3167 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3168 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3169 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3170 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3171 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003172
3173
3174Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031757 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3176 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031777 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3178 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3179 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3180 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031818 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3182 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3183 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3184 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003185 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031868 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3187 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3188 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031898 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
31909 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
31918 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
31927 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3193 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
31948 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3195 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3196 when starting up in a color terminal.
31978 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3198 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031998 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3200 function be improved?
32018 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3202 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3203 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3204 this be improved?
32058 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3206 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032077 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3208 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032097 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3210 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32117 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3212 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032137 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032147 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3215 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3216 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3217 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3218 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3219 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3220 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
32218 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
3222 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
3223 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
3224 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
32258 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3226 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3227 using strcmp() too often?
32287 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3229 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3230 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3231 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3232 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3233 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32347 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3235 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3236 with an argument that can be messed with.
3237 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3238 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32397 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3240- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32418 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3242 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3243- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3244 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3245- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3246- Do profiling on:
3247 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3248 - 1000ii<Esc>
3249 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3250 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3251 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3252 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3253 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3254 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003255 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032567 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3257 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3258 changed).
3259 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3260 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3261- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3262- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3263 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3264- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3265 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3266 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3267- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3268 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3269- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3270- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3271 cursor is right of the screen.
32728 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3273 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3274
3275
3276Code size:
32778 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3278- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3279 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32808 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32818 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3282 it.
32837 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3284 left out.
32858 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3286 can be removed.
32878 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3288
3289
3290Messages:
32918 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3292 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
32938 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3294 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
32958 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3296 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003297- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3298 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3299- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033008 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3301 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033029 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3303 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3304 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3305 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3306 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033078 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3308 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33098 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3310 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3311 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3312 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3313 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3314 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003315- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003316 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033178 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3318 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3319 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3320 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3321 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3322 error messages, printing text, etc.
33238 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3324 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3325 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3326
3327
3328Screen updating:
33297 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3330 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3331 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3332- screen_line():
3333 - insert/delete character stuff.
3334 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3335- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3336 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3337- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3338 waiting for a character.
33398 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3340 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3341 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33427 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003343
3344
3345Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033468 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033476 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3348- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3349 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3350 windows.
33517 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3352 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3353 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3354- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3355 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3356 (Goldfarb)
3357- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3358 bound windows.
3359- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3360 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003361- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003362- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3363 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3364 of lines but not with a single line).
3365
3366
3367Autoconf:
33688 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33698 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3370 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3371- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3372 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3373- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3374- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3375- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3376
3377
3378Perl interface:
33798 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033807 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33817 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33826 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3383
3384
3385Shared libraries:
33866 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3387 :libload internal-name libname
3388 :libunload internal-name
3389 :liblist
3390 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3391 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3392 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
33936 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3394
3395
3396Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000033979 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3398 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3399 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3400 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3401 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034028 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3403 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3404 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003405 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003406 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034078 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3408 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3409 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003410 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3411 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3412 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034137 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3414 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3415 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034168 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34178 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3418 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034197 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3420 window for each tag.
34217 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34227 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3423 bottom" search message.
34247 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3425 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3426 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003427- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3428- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003429- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3430 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3431 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034327 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3433 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3434 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3435 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34367 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3437 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3438 :tagargs clear
3439 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3440 matching).
34417 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3442 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3443 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3444 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34457 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3446 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34477 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3448 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3449 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003450
3451
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003452Win32 GUI:
34538 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3454 the message and input?
34557 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3456 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3457 dynamically?
34587 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3459 (Mike McCollister)
34608 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3461 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3462 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3463 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3464 common part of the path.
34658 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34668 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3467 gettext and menus work.
34688 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3469 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003470 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003471 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34728 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3473 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34748 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3475 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34767 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3477 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34787 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34797 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34807 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3481 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3482 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3483 prompts.
34847 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3485 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3486 the file added into an already running Vim.
34877 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3488 functions to find the window title.
3489
3490
3491GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034928 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003493- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3494 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
34957 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
34968 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
34976 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
34988 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3499 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35009 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35017 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35028 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3503 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35048 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3505 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3506 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35078 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3508 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35098 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3510 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3511 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3512 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035137 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35148 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3515 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035167 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3517 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3518 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035198 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35208 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003521 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035228 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35238 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35248 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3525 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3526 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35277 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3528 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3529 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35307 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3531 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35327 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3533 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3534 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3535 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35367 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3537 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35387 Should support multi-column menus.
3539- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3540 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3541- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35428 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35436 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3544 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35457 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35467 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3547 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3548 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35497 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35508 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3551 name can be chosen free.
35527 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3553 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35546 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3555 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3556 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3557 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3558 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3559 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3560 things.
35617 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3562 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035637 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003564 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003565- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3566 where it was started from?
35677 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3568
3569
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003570Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035719 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3572 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003573- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035748 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3575 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3576 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3577 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35788 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3579 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035807 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3581 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3582 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3583 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035847 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035858 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3586 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035878 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3588 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3589 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035907 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3591 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3592 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035938 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3594 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3595 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035967 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3597 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035988 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3599 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036008 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036016 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3602 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036037 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036047 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003605 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3606 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3607 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036085 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3609 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3610 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36117 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3612 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3613 file.
36148 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3615 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3616 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617- Add events to autocommands:
3618 Error - When an error happens
3619 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003620 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003621 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3622 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003623 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003624 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003625 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3626 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003627 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003628 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003629 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003630 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3631 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3632 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3633 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003635 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3636 the char.
3637 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3638 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3639 file from CVS).
3640 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3641 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3642 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3643 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3644 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3645 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003646 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3647 changes.
3648 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3649 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003650- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003652 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3654 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3655 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3656 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3657 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3658
3659
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003660Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003661- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3662 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003663- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3664 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3665 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3666 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3667 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003668- Ideas from others:
3669 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3670 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3671 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3672 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3673 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3674 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3675 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3676 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3677 Uses Perl for C++.
3678 Uses ctags to find the info:
3679 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3680 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3681 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3682 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3683 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3684 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003685 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003686 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3687- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3688
3689
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003690Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003691- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000036927 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3693 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036947 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3695 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3696 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036978 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3698 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
36999 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3700 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3701 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037028 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3703 - ignore/match case
3704 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037058 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3706 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3707 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3708 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3709 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3710 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037118 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037127 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3713 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037148 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3715 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3716 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3717 Should work for C++ and Java.
3718 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37197 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37207 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3721 instead of words.
37228 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37238 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3724 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37258 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3726 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003727- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3728 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003729- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3730 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3731 wildcards in the file name)?
3732- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3733- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3734- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3735 be in another file).
3736- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3737- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3738- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3739 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3740- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3741- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3742- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003743- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3744
3745
3746Command line editing:
37477 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3748 line.
37498 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3750 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3751 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3752- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3753 lines wraps to start of line).
3754- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3755 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3756 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3757 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3758 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3759 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3760 cmdwin does now already.
3761 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3762 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3763 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3764 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3765 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3766 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3767 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3768 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3769 Problems:
3770 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3771 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3772 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3773 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3774 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3775 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3776 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3777 character in first column?
3778 - Implementation ideas:
3779 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3780 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3781 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3782 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3783 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3784 Mode.
3785
3786
3787Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037888 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037898 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
37908 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3791 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
37928 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3793 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037948 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3795 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037967 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3797 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003798- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3799- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3800 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038018 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3802 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38037 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3804 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3805- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3806 identifiers (Webb).
38078 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3808 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38097 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3810 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3811- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3812 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3813- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3814 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3815 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003816
3817
3818Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038199 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3820 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3821 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003822- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3823 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3824 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3825 completely resulted from one mapping.
3826- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3827 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3828
3829
3830Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038319 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3832 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3833 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038348 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3835 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3836 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3837 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3838 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038398 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3840 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3841 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038427 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3843 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003844- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038459 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038467 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3847 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3848- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3849 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3850 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3851 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3852 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3853 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3854- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3855 Normal mode.
3856- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3857 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3858 are used.
3859- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3860- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3861- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3862
3863
3864'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038659 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3866 char * veryLongName =
3867 "very long string"
3868 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038698 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038708 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3871 long_type foo =
3872 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038738 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3874 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003875 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038768 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3877 func(
3878 new String[] {
3879 "asdf",
3880 "asdf"
3881 }
3882 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038838 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3884 (Chow Loong Jin)
3885 namespace {
3886 int
3887 func(int arg) {
3888 }
3889 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038906 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3891 func( arg1
3892 , arg2
3893 , arg3
3894 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000038957 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003896 func(
3897 int x) // indent like "(4"
3898 {
3899 if (a
3900 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039019 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3902 if (a)
3903 {
3904 if (b)
3905 {
3906 // {
3907 }
3908 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003909 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3910 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3911 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003912- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39147 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3915- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3916 line).
3917- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3918- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3919 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39207 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3921- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3922 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3923- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3924 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3925- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3926- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3927 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39288 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3929 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3930 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3931- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3932- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3933 lines start with "\item".
3934- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3935 /* here is a comment that
3936 is just autoindented, and
3937 nothing else */
3938- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39397 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3940 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3941 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003942 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3943 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003944
3945
3946Java:
39478 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3948 Odendahl?
39498 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3950 "[i" commands and friends.
3951- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3952 (Jason)
3953- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3954 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3955
3956
3957'comments':
39588 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3959 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3960 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3961 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003962 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3963 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039647 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3965 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39667 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39676 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3968 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3969 regexp is used.
39708 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3971 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3972
3973
3974Virtual edit:
39758 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039767 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3977
3978
3979Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039808 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039818 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039828 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003983 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039848 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3985 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003986 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3987 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039888 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039897 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3990 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039918 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3992 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039938 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3994 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3995 the end of the line or before a ".".
39967 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3997 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
39987 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3999 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040006 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40015 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4002 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4003 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4004 cursor is on.
4005
4006
4007Select mode:
40088 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4009 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40107 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4011 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40127 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4013 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4014 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4015 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4016 normal_cmd().
4017 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4018 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4019
4020
4021Visual mode:
4022- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4023 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4024 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004025- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4026 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4027 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040288 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004029 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004030 where needed.
40317 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4032 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40337 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4034 of each selected line.
40358 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40368 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4037 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4038 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40398 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4040 Ben Godfrey)
40417 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4042 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40437 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4044 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40457 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4046 Young is working on this)
40477 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004048 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40508 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4051 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40527 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4053 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4054 option!
40557 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4056 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4057 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4058 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4059 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4060 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4061 without changing the column.
40626 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040637 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4064 current buffer.
40657 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40666 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4067 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40686 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040696 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004070 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004071 or other special character.
40726 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4073
4074
4075More advanced repeating commands:
4076- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040777 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004078 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004079- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004080- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4082 "y." will repeat last yank.
4083 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4084 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4085 and/or pick an older command.
4086- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4087
4088
4089Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040908 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4091 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4092 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
40938 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
40947 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4095 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040968 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4097 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
40988 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000040997 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041008 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4101 entering search strings.
41028 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4103 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4104 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041058 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4106 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041078 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4108 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4109 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41107 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041117 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4112 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041136 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4114 abbreviations are to be used.
4115- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4116 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4117 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004118- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4119 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4120 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4121 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4122 Or implicit:
4123 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004124- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4125 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4126 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004127- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4128 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4129- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4130 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41316 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4132 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4133 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4134 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4136 non-replace Insert mode?
4137- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004138- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4139- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4140 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4141- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004142 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4144 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4145- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4146- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4147 ":freekeys".
4148- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4149
4150
4151Incsearch:
4152- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4153- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4154 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4155 up every time.
4156- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4157 folds when going to another line.
4158- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4159 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4160 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4161 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4162- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4163 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4164
4165
4166Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041678 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004168 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004169 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004170 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004171 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041729 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4173 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041748 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4175 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041768 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4177 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4178 Perl does it this way:
4179 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4180 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4181 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4182 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041838 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4184 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4185 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041868 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4187 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4188 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041897 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4190 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041918 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4192 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041937 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004194 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4195 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4196 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
41977 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4198 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041997 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004200 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042017 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4202 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042038 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4204 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42058 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4206 line.
42077 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4208 example.
42098 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4210 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4211- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4212 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4213 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4214 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42158 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42168 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4217 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4218 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42197 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4220 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042217 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4222 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042238 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4224 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042258 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4226 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042278 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4228 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4229 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4230 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004231- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4232 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004233- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4234 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4235- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4236 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4237 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4238 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042398 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4240 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004241- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4242 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042438 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4244 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4245 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004246- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4247 i ignore case
4248 I use case
4249 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4250 v use Vi regexp syntax
4251 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4252 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4253 Perl uses these too:
4254 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4255 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4256 o compile only once (Perl only)
4257 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4258 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4259 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4260 following command.
4261 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4262- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4263 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4264 for search string)?
42657 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4266 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4267- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4268 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4269- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4270 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4271- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4272- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004273 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004274 a for the next file in the argument list
4275 f for file in the buffer list
4276 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004277 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4278 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004279 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4280 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4281- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042827 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004283 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4285 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4286 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4287 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42886 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4289 effects.
42907 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4291 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4292 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042937 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004294 Also ":dselect".
4295
4296
4297Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042989 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4299 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043008 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4301 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4302 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43038 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4304 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043058 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4306 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4307 timestamp?
4308 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4309 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043108 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4311 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4312 was changed outside of Vim.
4313 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4314 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004315 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4316 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004317- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4318 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4320 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4321 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43228 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4323 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4324 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4325 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43268 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4327 only remember the lines that really changed.
43287 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4329 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4330 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4331 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004332- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4333 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4334- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4335 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4336- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4337 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4338 [-99].
4339- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4340- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004341- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4342 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4343
4344
4345Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043467 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4347 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4348 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4349 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43508 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4351 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43528 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4353 inode too.
43547 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004355 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4356 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043577 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4358 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4359- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4360 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4361- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4362 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43637 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4364 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43657 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4366 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43678 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043688 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004369 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43707 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4371 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043728 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4373 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4374 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004375
4376
4377Swap (.swp) files:
43788 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4379 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4380 there are short file name problems.
43818 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4382 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43838 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43848 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004385 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004386 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4387 file the same as the actual file?
4388 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043897 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4390 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
43917 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004392 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004393 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4394 enough room.
43957 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4396 or /var/preserve.
4397- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4398 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4399- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4400 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4401- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4402 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4403 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4404 cached list of which line is where.
4405
4406
4407Viminfo:
44087 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4409 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4410 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044118 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4412 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4413 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044148 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4415 name. (Schild)
44168 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44178 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044188 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044198 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4420 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4421 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4422 this?
44237 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44247 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4425 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44266 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4427 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4428 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4429- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4430 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4431
4432
4433Modelines:
44348 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4435 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4436 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004437- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4438 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4439 'shiftwidth'.
4440- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4441 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004442- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4443 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4444 modeline setting.
4445- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4446 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4447- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4448 .cpp files.
4449- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4450 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4451- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4452 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4453
4454
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004455Sessions:
44568 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4457 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44587 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4459 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044608 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4461 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044628 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4463 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4464 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044657 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4466 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044677 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004468
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004469
4470Options:
44717 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4472 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044738 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4474 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4475 also be supported.
44768 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4477 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4478 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44797 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44807 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4481 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004482
4483
4484External commands:
44858 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4486 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44874 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4488 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4489 -f).
44904 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
44914 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4492 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
44934 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4494
4495
4496Multiple Windows:
44977 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
44988 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4499 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45007 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4501 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4502 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045037 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4504 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045057 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4506 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045076 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4508 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004509 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004510 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45117 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4512 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4513 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4514 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4515- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4516 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4517 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4518 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4519
4520
4521Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045228 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045238 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4524 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045258 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 +000045268 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4527 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45288 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4529 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4530 the mark was set.
45317 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4532 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4533 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4534 ":browse marks"?
45356 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045367 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4537 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45387 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4539 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45407 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4541 command).
45427 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4543 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4544 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4545 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45465 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4547 mappings.
45486 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4549 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4550 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4551
4552
4553Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045547 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004555 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004556- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4557 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045588 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045597 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4560 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4561
4562
4563Writing files:
4564- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4565 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4566 shortname conversion.
45678 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45688 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4569 file.
45708 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4571 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4572 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045736 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4574 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45756 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4576 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45776 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4578 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045798 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004580 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45817 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4582 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45837 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4584 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4585 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4586 waiting for a character to be typed).
45878 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4588 line of the window, like "[time]".
4589 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4590 Automatic and/or with a command.
4591
4592
4593Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000045948 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4595 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045968 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4598- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4599- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46008 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4601 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004602- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004603 :s///N substitutes N times.
4604- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4605 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4606 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46077 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4608 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4609 last line column 5.
46105 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4611 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4612 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4613 (Stanislav Sitar)
4614
4615
4616Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046178 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46187 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46198 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4620 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4621 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4623- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4624 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4625- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4626- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4627
4628
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004629Argument list:
46306 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4631 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4632 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46336 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4634
4635
4636Registers:
46378 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46388 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4639 around in windows.
46408 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4641 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4642 for every line.
46436 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4644 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4645 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4646- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4647 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4648- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4649 leader when line wraps?
4650- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4651 line in the range.
4652- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4653 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46548 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4655 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004656
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004657
4658Debug mode:
46597 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46608 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046618 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046627 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004663 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4664 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4665 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046667 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46677 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4668
4669
4670Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046719 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4672 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046737 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4674 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4675 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4676 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4677 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4678 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4679 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004680 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046817 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4682 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046837 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4684 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046858 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4686 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046877 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4688 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4689 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004690- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004691 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046927 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4693 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046947 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4695 window as a buffer-tab selection.
46968 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046976 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
46987 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4699 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4700 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004701 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4702 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047037 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4704 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47058 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4706 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047076 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047088 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4709 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4710 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4711 in this Vim.
47128 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004713 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047148 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4715 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4716 have it apply to the following command.
47178 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4718 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4719 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4720 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047217 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4722 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047237 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4724 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4725 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4726 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047276 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47288 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47299 Support ACLs on more systems.
47307 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4731 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047327 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4733 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4734 (truncated to fit in the space).
47357 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47368 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47378 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4738 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047397 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004740 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47417 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4742 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047437 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047447 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47457 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047468 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47478 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4748 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4749 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4750 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47518 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47526 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4753 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004754 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047558 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4757 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4758 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4759 does something like this. (Shah)
47607 Use growarray for replace stack.
47617 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4762 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47633 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047647 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4765 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047667 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4767 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004768- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4769- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4770- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4771- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47727 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4773 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4774- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4775 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004776- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004777- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4778 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4779- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4780 call "play newbeep.au").
4781- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4782 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4783 (Bhatt).
4784- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4785 blockwise registers).
4786- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4787 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4788- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4789 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4790 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4791 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004792- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047937 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4794 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4795- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4796 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4797 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4798 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4799 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048008 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4801 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048028 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4803 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4804 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4805 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4806 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4807- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004808- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048097 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4810 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4811- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4812 not in column 1.
48136 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4814 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48157 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4816- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004817- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004818 :redir #> bufname
4819 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004820- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4821 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004822- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4823 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4824 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48256 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4826 console? (Klaus Hast)
4827- Add :delcr command:
4828 *:delcr*
4829 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4830 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4831 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4832 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4833 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4834 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4835- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4836- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4837 characters from 'isprint'.
4838- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4839- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4840 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4841- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4842 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4843 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4844- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4845- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4846 Nvi).
4847- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4848 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48497 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4850- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4851 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48526 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4853- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4854 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4855 macro).
4856- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004857- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4858 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4859- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48608 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004861- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4862- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4863- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4864 if it is not the first or last window.
4865- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4866 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48677 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4868 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4869 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4870- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4871- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004872 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004873 many percent down the windows).
4874- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4875 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4876 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4877- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4878 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4879- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4880 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4881- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4882- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4883- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4884 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048858 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4886 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4887 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4888 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4889 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004890- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4891 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4892- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004893 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4894- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004895 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4896 (Webb).
4897- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004898 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004899- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4900 hex codes like 0xff).
4901- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4902 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4903 the last TYPED command.
4904- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4905- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4906- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4907 should also work?
4908- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49098 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4910 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4911 name.
4912- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4913 trailing '.'.
4914- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4915 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4916 find_file_in_path().
4917- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4918 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4919- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4920- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4921 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4922- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004923 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4925 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4926 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004927- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004928 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4929- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4930- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4931- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4932 to the minimal size.
4933- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4934- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4935- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4936- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4937- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004938- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4939 entered)?
4940- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4941 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004942- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4944- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4945- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4946- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4947- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4948 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004949- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049508 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4951 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4952 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4953 or in octal.
49547 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4955 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004956- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4958- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4959- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4960 insert line command).
4961- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4962- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4963- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4964- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4965- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4966 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004967- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004968 yet.
4969- Implement 'redraw' option.
4970- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4971 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049727 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4973 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004974 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4975 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049768 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4977 do it.
4978- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4979- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4980 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4981- Add text justification option.
4982- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4983- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4984 off".
4985- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4986- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4987- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004988 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004989- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004990- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004991- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4992- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4993 commands.
4994- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4995- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4996- :table command (Webb)
4997- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4999- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5000- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5001- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5002- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5003 (Demirel).
5004- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5005- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5006 for use in macro's and the like.
5007- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005008 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005009- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005010 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005011- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005012 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005013 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5014- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5015 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005016- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017 mkopttab to make option table?
5018- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5019 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5020- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5021 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005022- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005023 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5024- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5025 cursor?
5026- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5027- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50285 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5029 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050308 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5031 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5032 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5033 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5034 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050358 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5036 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5037 (Netherton)
50386 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5039 space after "(", for example.
50405 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5041 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5042 (Servatius Brandt)
5043
5044
5045From Elvis:
5046- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5047- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005048- Search patterns:
5049 \@ match word under cursor.
5050 but do:
5051 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5052 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50538 ":window" command:
5054 :win + next window (up)
5055 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5056 :win - previous window (down)
5057 :win -- idem, wrapping
5058 :win nr to window number "nr"
5059 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50607 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5061 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5062
5063
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005064From xvi:
5065- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5066- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5067
5068
5069From vile:
5070- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5071- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5072 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5073
5074
5075Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005076- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5077 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5078 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5079 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5080 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005081- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5082 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5083- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5084 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5085 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5086 current layout mirrored.
5087- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5088- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5089 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5090- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5091- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5092 font in each top-level window.
5093- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5094- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5095- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5096- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5097 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5098- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5099 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5100 mentioned in the tags file.
5101 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5102 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5103- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5104 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5105- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5106 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51074 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5108 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5109 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5110 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005111 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005112 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5113 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5114- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5115 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5116 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5117
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005118When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5119empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005120
5121vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5122vim: set fo+=n :