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Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2018 May 17
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020041Prompt buffer:
42- Add a command line history.
43- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
44
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020045Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020046- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020047- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020048- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
49 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
50 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020051
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020052Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020053- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
54 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020055- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
56 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
57- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
58 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020059- How to access selection in Terminal running a shell? (damnskippy, 2018 May
60 27, #29620 When terminal doesn't use the mouse, use modeless selection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +020061- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
62 is disabled.
63- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
64- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
65 redirection.
66- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
67- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
68 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
69 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
70- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
71- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
72 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
73- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
74 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +020075
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +020076Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
77- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
78- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020079
80Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
8113, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020082
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +020083On Win32 when not in the console and t_Co >= 256, allow using 'tgc'.
84(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #2833) Also check t_Co.
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020085
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010086Errors found with random data:
87 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +010088
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020089More warnings from static analysis:
90https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +020091
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020092Patch to fix duplicate entry in tagfiles() and add a test. (Dominique Pelle,
93#2979)
94
95Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020096Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020097
98Using ":file" in quickfix window during an autocommand doesn't work.
99(Jason Franklin, 2018 May 23) Allow for using it when there is no argument.
100
101Pull request #2967: Allow white space in sign text. (Ben Jackson)
102
103Patch for xterm and vt320 builtin termcap. (Kouichi Iwamoto, 2018 May 31,
104#2973)
105
106Patch to add more testing for :cd command. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 May 30,
107#2972)
108
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200109Whenever the file name is "~" then expand('%:p') returns $HOME. (Aidan
110Shafran, 2018 Jun 23, #3072)
111
112Patch to set w_curswant when setting the cursor in language interfaces.
113(David Hotham, 2018 Jun 22, #3060)
114
115Patch to make CTRL-W <CR> work properly in a quickfix window. (Jason Franklin,
1162018 May 30)
117
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200118Patch to make mode() return something different for Normal mode when coming
119from Insert mode with CTRL-O. (#3000)
120
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200121Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
122modified buffers
123 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
124 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
125 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
126 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
127
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200128Patch to make :help work for tags with a ?. (Hirohito Higashi, 2018 May 28)
129
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100130Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
131- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
132- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
133- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100134- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
135
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200136Patch for more quickfix refactoring. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #2950)
137
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200138Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
139- Test_setbufvar_options()
140- Test_exit_callback_interval()
141
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200142Patch to stack and pop the window title and icon. (IWAMOTO Kouichi, 2018 Jun
14322, #3059)
1448 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
145 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
146 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
147Using title stack probably works better.
148
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200149Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
150#2948. (related to #1512?)
151On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
152balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
15320, #2481)
154Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
155
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100156Try out background make plugin:
157 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
158or asyncmake:
159 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
160
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100161Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
162mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
163
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200164Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
165is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
166used for git temp files.
167
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100168Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
169
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200170Patch for Lua support. (Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2018 May 26)
171
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200172Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
173script or function.
174
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200175MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
176If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
177(wait a little while).
178CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100179
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200180Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
181missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
182
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200183":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
184deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
185
186Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar, 2018
187Jun 10, #2998)
188
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200189Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
190- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
191- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
192- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
193 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
194- make it possible to do a silent install, see
195 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
196 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
197- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
198- The one on Issue 279.
199Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
200How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
201
202Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200203
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200204Patch to use NGETTEXT() in many more places. (Sergey Alyoshin, 2018 May 25)
205Updated ptach May 27.
206
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100207Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
208mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
Bram Moolenaar51ad4ea2018-04-06 11:14:11 +0200209Also: 'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100210
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200211When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
212with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200213
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200214Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200215Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200216
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100217Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100218Jan 15, #2555)
219
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200220":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
221
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100222Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
223
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100224No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
225No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
226
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200227Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
228http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
229Should be supported with a flag.
230
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100231Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
232confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
233
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100234Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
235
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100236Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
237sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
238
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200239ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read in between, which may cause
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100240a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
241Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
242
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200243Patch to include a cfilter plugin to filter quickfix/location lists.
244(Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 May 12)
245
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100246Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
247Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
248applying the diff, etc.
249
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200250Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
251Apr 26, #2849)
252
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100253User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
254word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100255
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100256Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200257
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200258With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
259(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
260
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200261Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
262:drop (remote commands).
263
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200264Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
265
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200266Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
2672018 Jun 18, #3027)
268
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200269Implement option_save() and option_restore():
270option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
271 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
272 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
273 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
274 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
275 be called when the same window is the current window.
276 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
277 the local options won't be restored.
278
279option_save({list}) *option_save()*
280 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
281 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
282 let s:saved_options = option_save([
283 \ 'ignorecase',
284 \ 'iskeyword',
285 \ ])
286 au <buffer> BufLeave *
287 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
288< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
289 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
290 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
291 not where it was restored.
292
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100293"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
294directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
295Also see #1689.
296
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200297ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200298Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200299
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100300crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
30117, #2652)
302
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100303When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100304highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100305
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100306Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
307#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
308
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200309":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
310
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100311Patch to add winlayout() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 Jan 4)
312
313No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
3142017 Dec 26, #2501)
315
316Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
317quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
318
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200319CTRL-X on zero gets stuck on 0xfffffffffffffffe. (Hengyang Zhao, #2746)
320
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100321A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
322
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100323Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
324(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
325
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200326Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
327program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
328implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
329Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
3309 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
331 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
332 It's complicated and badly documented.
333Alternative: use the xdiff library. Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2018 Mar
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020033420, #2732)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200335
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200336ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
337
338Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
339
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100340Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
341Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
342
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100343Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
344in #846)
345Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
346
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200347Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
348Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
349
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100350When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
351redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200352
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100353In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
354(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
355
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100356Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
357Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
358
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100359Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
360neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100361
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200362Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
363Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
364
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100365Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
366Nov 21)
367
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200368When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
369triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
370set_color_count().
371
372Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
373responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
374
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100375When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
376CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
377Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
378always nested.
379
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200380matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
381
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100382Patch to add variable name after "scope add". (Eddie Lebow, 2018 Feb 7, #2620)
383Maybe not needed?
384
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100385Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
386
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100387MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100388for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
389
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100390Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
391#2357)
392
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200393Test runtime files.
394Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200395
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200396Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200397
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200398Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
399defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
400Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
401
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200402After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
40313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200404
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200405Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
406Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
407
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200408When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
409line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
410
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100411The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
412
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200413Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
414set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
415
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200416Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200417Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100418Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200419
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200420Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
421
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100422Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
423
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200424Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200425It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100426Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200427Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200428
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200429Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
430
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200431Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
432behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
433
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100434'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
435
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200436All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
437For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
438 mylist~get(idx)
439 mydict~get(idx)
440 mystring~len()
441Alternatives for ~:
442 ^ list^get() could also be used
443 . list.get() already means concatenate
444 $ list$get() harder to read
445 @ list@get() harder to read
446 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
447
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200448The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
449
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100450When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
451a command can delete it.
452
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200453When a swap file exists, is not for a running process, is from the same
454machine and recovering results in the same text, we could silently delete it.
455#1237
456
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200457Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
458#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
459
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100460The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
461for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
462
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200463X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
464pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
465clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
466Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
467Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
468clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200469Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200470
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100471Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
472http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
473http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
474Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
475- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
476- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
477- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
478 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
479- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
480- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
481Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
482- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
483- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
484Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
485- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
486
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200487Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
488
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200489Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
490attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
491that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
492
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200493Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
494(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
495
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200496Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
497Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
498terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
499Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
500(Also #1890)
501
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100502Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
503buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
504Also fixes #2166?
505
506Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
507
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200508Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
509stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
510
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100511Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
512possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
513
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100514Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
515#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100516
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200517When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
518case of :bwipe followed by :new.
519
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200520Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
521existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
522Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
523
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200524Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200525
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200526MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
527Jul 4)
528
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200529Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
530Drucker, 2017 May 8).
531This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
532Christian cannot reproduce it.
533
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200534Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
535wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
536Or is this not an actual problem?
537
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200538Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
539
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200540Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
541
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200542Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
543
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200544'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
545#1736)
546
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200547Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
5488, #1690)
549
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100550Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
551manager. Problem with Motif?
552
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200553Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
554(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
555
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200556Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
557it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
558
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200559Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
560Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
561How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
562
563Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
564(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
565
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100566Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
567
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200568Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
569(Diego Carrión, #1867)
570
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200571assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
572it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
573
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200574New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
575
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100576Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
577for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200578
579Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
580(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
581Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
582later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
583Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
584mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200585Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
586mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200587maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200588
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100589Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200590plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
591be defined when the plugin is loaded.
592
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100593Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
594 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
595 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100596
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200597json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200598What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100599
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200600Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
601
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200602import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
603(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
604
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100605When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
606buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
607Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100608
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100609When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
610like the item was not a match for :cnext.
611
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200612Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
613Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100614Another example in #1309
615
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100616When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
617when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
618
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100619Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
620#1330)
621
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200622Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
623
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100624Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
625
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100626GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
627g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
628timer expires.
629
630Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
631
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100632Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
633highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
634
6358 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
636 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
637
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100638Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
639Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
640
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200641Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
642key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
643 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
644 echo keytrans(xx)
645 <C-Home>
646
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100647Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
648(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
649Make a function to check for function-like type?
650
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200651Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
652(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
653
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100654Implement optional arguments for functions.
655 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
656 call Foo(12)
657 call Foo(12, all = 0)
658 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100659
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200660Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
661support, or similar.
662Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
663
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100664Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
665somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
666
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100667Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
668(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
669
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200670Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
671Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
672New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
673
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200674Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200675Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200676Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200677
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100678The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
679"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
680Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
681
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200682Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
683
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200684Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
685about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200686Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
687
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200688Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
689#1053) With patch, does it work?
690
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100691Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
692MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6932017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
694receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
695
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200696":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100697vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
698
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200699Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
700Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100701
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100702Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
703Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
704
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200705Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100706Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200707
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100708"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
709(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
710
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100711Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
712(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100713Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100714
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200715'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
716
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100717Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
718
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200719Patch to fix profiling condition lines. (Ozaki Kiichi,, 2017 Dec 26, #2499)
720
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200721Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
722(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
723
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200724When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
725Apr 23, #1653)
726
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100727Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
728anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
729
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100730When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
731Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
732(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
733
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200734Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200735E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200736
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200737Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
738(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
739
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200740Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
741
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100742Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
743
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100744Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
745
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100746On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
747separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
748
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200749min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
750contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
751
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200752Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
753
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200754Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
755
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200756Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
757
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200758Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
759no longer support.
760
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200761sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
7624#1038)
763
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100764+channel:
765- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
766 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100767- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
768- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
769 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
770- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
771 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
772- Implement |job-term| ?
773- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
774- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
775 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
776 minute. Option to set the droptime.
777- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
778- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
779- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
780 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
781 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
782- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
783 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
784- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
785 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
786 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
787
788Regexp problems:
789- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
790 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
791- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
792 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
793- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
794 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
795 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
796 LC_CTYPE
797- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
798 matches everywhere.
799- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
800 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
801- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
802- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
803 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
804- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
805- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
806 2013 Dec 11)
807- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
808 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
809- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
810- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
811 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
812- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
813- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
814- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
815- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
816 2015 Feb 7)
817- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
818 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
819 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
820 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
821 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
822- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
823- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
824- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
825- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
826 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
827 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
828 col and vcol when moving to another line.
829- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
830 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
831- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
832 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
833 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
834 (2017 May 15, #1252)
835
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200836Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
837
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100838Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
839#1350)
840
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200841Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
8423. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
843Also see #1635.
844
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200845Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200846Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
847use the current behavior.
848Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200849
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200850Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
851New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
852
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200853When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
854command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
855
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100856Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
857change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200858patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
859(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100860
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200861Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
862doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
863Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100864Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200865E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
866
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100867execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200868#1141)
869
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200870cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
871
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200872:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
873
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200874Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
875
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200876When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
877synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
878
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200879Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
880Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200881
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200882Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
883(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
884
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200885ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
886Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200887
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100888Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
889
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200890Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100891(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200892
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200893Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
894Jul 25, #948)
895
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100896Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
897names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
898Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
899the system encoding (usually utf-8).
900
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200901Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
902(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
903Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
904
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200905'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
906
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200907MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
908Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200909
910Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
911Also for ":@.".
912
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200913Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
914
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200915Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
916#1125
917
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200918Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
919times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
920
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200921This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
922(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
923
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200924Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
925
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200926Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
927
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200928Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
929
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200930Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
931
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100932We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
933the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
934
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200935Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
936
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200937When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
938emoji_width table has only one entry.
939
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100940It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
941Reject the value? #710.
942
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200943When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
944Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
945
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200946Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200947Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200948
949Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200950
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200951Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
952No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200953
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200954Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
955(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100956
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200957Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
958
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100959Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
960https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
961Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
962
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100963Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
964but the reference remains valid.
965
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200966Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100967interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
968Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
969interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
970result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200971
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200972Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100973work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200974
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100975Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
976
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200977Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
978
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200979Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
980Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
981
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200982When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
983Apr 17) #762
984
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200985exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
986Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
987
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100988Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
989'iskeyword' for syntax.
990
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100991Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
992(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
993
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100994Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
995
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200996When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
997maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200998Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200999
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001000Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1001It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1002Add configure check?
1003Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1004Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1005Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1006
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001007Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1008Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1009
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001010Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1011Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1012Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1013
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001014Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1015Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1016
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001017Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
1018(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
1019
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001020":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1021directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1022
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001023In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1024(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1025
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001026If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
10272016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001028
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001029Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1030(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1031
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001032Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001033Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001034
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001035Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
1036Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
1037
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001038Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1039
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001040When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1041restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1042Do not trigger the event?
1043
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001044Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1045changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1046and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001047Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1048Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
10496, 2nd message)
1050Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001051
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +01001052Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
1053(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
1054
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001055Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1056Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1057https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1058
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001059Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1060With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1061
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001062Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001063
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001064Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1065
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001066Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001067Only remembers one error.
1068
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001069Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
1070
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001071Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1072(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001073
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001074Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1075github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001076 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001077Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001078
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001079Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001080
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001081Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001082comparing individual items.
1083Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1084Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1085Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1086equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1087
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001088Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1089
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001090MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1091wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1092
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001093Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1094specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1095
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001096Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1097(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1098
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001099Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001100inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001101
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001102Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1103(Luchr, #277)
1104
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001105Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001106'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1107before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001108
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001109C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1110and also line continuation after #include.
1111I can't recommend it though.
1112
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001113Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1114(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1115
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001116Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
111724) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001118Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001119
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001120To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1121library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1122
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001123When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1124is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1125
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001126Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
112730)
1128
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001129MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1130(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1131
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001132The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
113324): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001134
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001135":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1136effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1137
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001138":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
11399)
1140
1141The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1142wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1143
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001144Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001145Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001146
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001147When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1148the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1149
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001150Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001151slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1152inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1153
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001154ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
11552014 Sep 11)
1156
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001157Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1158(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1159
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001160When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1161'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1162
1163Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001164(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001165Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1166- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1167 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1168 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1169- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1170 covered by the above change.
1171So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001172same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001173Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001174
1175Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1176Work in progress.
1177
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001178Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1179when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1180
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001181Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1182Is this right?
1183
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001184Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1185(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1186Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1187
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001188Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1189Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001190
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001191Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1192Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1193
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001194Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1195
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001196When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1197filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1198initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1199
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001200Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1201
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001202Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1203OK to not block marks?
1204
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001205Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1206
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001207Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1208
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001209When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1210(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1211
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001212Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001213
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001214Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1215(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1216
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001217When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1218any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1219
1220Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001221
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001222Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001223
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001224Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
12252015 Feb 6.
1226
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001227Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1228Is this a good solution?
1229
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001230Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1231(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1232
1233Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1234
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001235Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1236Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1237was already defined.
1238(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1239
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001240Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1241
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001242Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001243Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001244Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001245Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001246
1247Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001248
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001249Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1250(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1251
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001252Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1253(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1254
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001255Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1256change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1257them: ":repeats".
1258
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001259Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1260
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001261When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1262these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1263window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1264
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001265Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1266should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1267history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1268Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1269
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001270"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1271Jun 8)
1272
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001273Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1274insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1275
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001276No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1277
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001278Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1279(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1280Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1281arguments.
1282
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001283Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1284
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001285Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001286
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001287Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
12880x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1289New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1290compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1291
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001292Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1293a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1294
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001295xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1296buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1297Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001298Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001299Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001300Also see issue #609.
1301We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001302
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001303Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1304right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001305its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001306
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001307Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1308
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001309This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1310 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1311This neither: (ZyX)
1312 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1313
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001314'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1315Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1316from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001317
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001318Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
13192014 Jun 8)
1320
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001321Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001322Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001323Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1324Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1325User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001326- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1327 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1328 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001329- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1330- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1331 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1332 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1333 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1334 on vim.org.
1335- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1336 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1337- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1338- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1339- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1340- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1341Implementation:
1342- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1343 plugin separate.
1344- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1345 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1346 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1347- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1348 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1349- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1350 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1351 installing.
1352Out of scope:
1353- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1354- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1355 useful).
1356
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001357Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1358normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001359
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001360When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1361menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1362
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001363Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1364(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1365
1366":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1367various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001368
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001369Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001370(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1371
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001372VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1373instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1374
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001375Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001376Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001377
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001378Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001379command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001380
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001381Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1382
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001383Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1384highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001385
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001386The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1387For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1388
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001389Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001390possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001391
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001392Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001393
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001394Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1395
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001396Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1397
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001398Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001399Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001400
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010014017 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1402 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1403 "lucida_console:h8").
1404Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1405
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001406:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1407
1408Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001409With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001410
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001411Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1412
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001413Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1414
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001415When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1416(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1417
1418Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001419Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001420
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001421GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1422(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1423
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001424Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1425registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1426
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001427Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1428
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001429The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1430(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1431Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1432
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001433The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1434- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1435- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1436
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001437Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1438Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1439reliably?
1440
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001441Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1442(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1443
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001444Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1445(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1446
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001447Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
14482013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001449
1450Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1451
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001452Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
14535)
1454
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001455Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1456carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1457
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001458Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1459highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1460
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001461Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001462
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001463Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200146428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001465
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001466Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1467optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1468
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001469Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1470
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001471Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1472
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001473- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1474 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1475Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001476
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001477Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001478
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001479In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1480process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1481a reboot.
1482
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001483patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1484
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001485Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1486not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001487
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001488Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1489Or use expand('<sid>')?
1490
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001491Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1492
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001493Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001494
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001495Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1496
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001497Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1498
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001499b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
15007)
1501
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001502Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1503compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1504
1505Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1506Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1507vim.bindeval().
1508
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001509Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
15102012 Aug 4)
1511
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001512Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1513(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1514
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001515Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1516(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1517
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001518Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1519But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1520
1521Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1522Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1523Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001524
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001525Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1526loading all files.
1527
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001528MS-Windows resizing problems:
1529- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1530 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1531- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1532 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1533 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001534
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001535'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001536
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001537Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001538of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1539
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001540The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1541Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1542But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001543
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001544When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1545is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1546
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001547URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001548- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001549- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1550 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1551
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001552Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1553(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1554Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1555
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001556Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001557New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001558
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001559When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1560for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1561Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001562
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001563Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1564
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001565Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
156624)
1567
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001568Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1569
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001570Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1571
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001572Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1573Apr 18)
1574
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001575Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1576And one for gui_x11.txt.
1577
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001578":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1579finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1580Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1581
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001582Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1583
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001584Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1585
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001586Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1587they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1588
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001589Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1590
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001591Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1592Nov 20)
1593
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001594Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001595Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001596
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001597`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001598(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1599
1600Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1601
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001602BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1603Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1604
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001605Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1606Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1607
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001608Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1609
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001610On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
16112012 Jun 19)
1612
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001613'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1614'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1615Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001616Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001617
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001618With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1619(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1620need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1621
1622Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1623only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
162421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1625
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001626The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1627support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1628
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001629'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1630highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1631
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001632Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1633New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1634
1635Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1636Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1637
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001638Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1639Jan 19)
1640
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001641Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1642discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1643meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001644
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001645"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001646Oct 26)
1647
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001648Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1649
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001650With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1651register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001652
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001653Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1654
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001655When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1656(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1657
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001658When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1659then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1660from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1661
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001662Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1663":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
166415)
1665
1666Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1667
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001668BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1669cleared. See test64.
1670
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001671Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001672effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001673Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1674
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001675On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
167664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1677right type.
1678
1679string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1680(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1681
1682When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1683(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001684When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1685following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1686(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001687
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001688When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1689doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1690
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001691Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1692
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001693maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1694mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1695
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001696Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1697(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1698
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001699When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1700indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1701the help file.
1702
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001703After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1704Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1705
1706Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1707
1708"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1709
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001710Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1711
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001712Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001713
1714Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
17152010 Dec 18)
1716
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001717With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1718number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1719Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1720
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001721Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1722Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1723
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017248 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1725Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1726
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001727Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1728one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1729the match scrolls into view.
1730
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017317 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1732Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1733Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1734
17359 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1736 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1737Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1738
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001739Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1740Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1741
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001742In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1743or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1744sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1745
1746GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1747doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1748
1749GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1750
1751Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1752Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1753
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001754Wish for NetBeans commands:
1755 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1756
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001757Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1758
17597.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1760there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1761do?
1762
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001763Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
176422)
1765
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001766New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1767- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001768- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001769 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1770
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001771"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
17722011 Feb 27)
1773
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001774Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1775^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1776
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001777When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1778exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
17799) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1780
1781g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1782the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1783
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001784Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1785crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1786
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001787Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1788number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1789
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001790Regexp engine performance:
1791- Profiling:
1792 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1793 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1794 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1795 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1796 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1797 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1798- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1799- Performance tests:
1800 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1801 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1802 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1803 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1804 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1805 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1806 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1807 'hlsearch'.
1808 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1809 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1810 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1811 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1812
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001813Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1814Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1815
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001816'beval' option should be global-local.
1817
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001818Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001819
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001820setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001821
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020018227 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1823 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1824 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001825 Is this an update: related to: #179
1826 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1827 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001828
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001829With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
18302010 Oct 24)
1831
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001832Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1833
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001834When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1835Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1836
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001837":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1838
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001839'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1840
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001841C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1842checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1843Issue 46.
1844
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001845Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1846
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001847Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1848gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1849
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001850":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1851accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1852
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001853Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1854setwinvar().
1855
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001856Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1857
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001858When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1859instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1860
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001861Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1862Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1863Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001864
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001865Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1866back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1867
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001868Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001869Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1870
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001871CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1872the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1873FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1874
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001875Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1876Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1877
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001878Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1879Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1880
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001881I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1882Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1883an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001884
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001885Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1886
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001887Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1888non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001889
1890iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1891Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1892or replace with a character and continue?
1893
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001894Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1895Requires configure check for localtime().
1896Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1897
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001898Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1899Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1900
1901Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001903Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1904Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1905path.
1906
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001907Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001908Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001909
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001910'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1911
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001912":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1913like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1914
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001915Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1916https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001917
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001918Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
19192010 Nov 5)
1920
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001921Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001922Jan 7)
1923
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001924Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1925Only with "vim -u NONE".
1926
1927Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1928
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001929With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1930entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1931Feb 12)
1932
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001933Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1934characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1935
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001936Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1937
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001938Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1939 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1940
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001941Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1942
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001943When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1944Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1945
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001946When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1947not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1948string value.
1949
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001950For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001951line argument -noregister.
1952
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001953When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1954missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1955
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001956When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1957doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001958
1959Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1960(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1961Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1962There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1963Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1964
1965":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1966highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1967to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1968
1969Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1970Probably needs a bit of work.
1971
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001972Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1973Added test, updates, June 23.
1974Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1975With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1976Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1977
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001978List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001979Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1980
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001981Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1982
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001983Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1984
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001985Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1986Sep 1)
1987
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001988Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1989
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001990Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1991on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1992
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001993Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
19942009 Jul 18)
1995
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001996Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1997window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1998Needs more work.
1999
2000Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2001
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002002When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2003few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2004
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002005'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002006(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2007
2008Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2009J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2010
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002011When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2012for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2013
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002014Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2015
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002016Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
2017
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002018":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2019because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2020ex_docmd.c.
2021
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002022Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002023Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2024
2025string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2026for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2027
2028Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2029
2030'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
203120)
2032
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002033Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
20342009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2035
2036Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2037
2038Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2039SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2040
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002041When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2042indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2043(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2044
2045Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2046are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2047Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2048Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2049that doesn't have a window.
2050
2051When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2052doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2053
2054getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2055displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2056
2057":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002059There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2060was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2061perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2062
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002063Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2064
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002065Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2066command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2067
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002068Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2069does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2070
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002071opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2072height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002073very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002074
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002075Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2076(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2077
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002078Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002079(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2080
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002081Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2082char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2083
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002084Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2085Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2086
2087This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2088
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002089Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2090messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2091es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
20922009 Jan 26)
2093
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002094When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002095in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2096Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002098Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2099a modeline.
2100
2101Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2102Sergey Khorev)
2103
2104Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2105part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002107After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2108correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2109
2110Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2111(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2112
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002113shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002114'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2115Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2116unix-like shell?
2117
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002118Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2119register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2120(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2121
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002122Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2123Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2124
2125Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2126make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2127
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002128When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2129still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2130
2131"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2132(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2133
2134Update src/testdir/main.aap.
2135
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002136Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2137that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2138ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2139Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2140
2141Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002142Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002143
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2145doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2146probably causes this.
2147
2148'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020021492009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002150
2151Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2152 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2153 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2154(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2155
2156Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2157":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2158option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2159is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002160
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002161":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2162first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002163Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002164
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002165Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2166laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2167Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002168
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002169Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2170anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2171
2172On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2173doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2174Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2175Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2176
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002177When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2178'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2179fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2180the buffer to be unmodified.
2181Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2182another look at it.
2183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002184c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2185(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2186
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002187You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2188error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2189Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2190at the other match for 0xBF.
2191
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002192When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2193argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2194
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002195Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2196backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2197
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002198When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2199line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2200
2201Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2202position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2203
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002204After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2205(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002206command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002207
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002208":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2209Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2210
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002211When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2212either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2213put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2214
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002215Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2216Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2217Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2218Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2219(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2220
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002221Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2222
2223ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002224
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002225Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2226(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2227escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2228an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002229This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2230July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002231Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2232work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2233
2234When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
223531)
2236
2237Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2238work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2239Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002240
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002241Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2242multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2243(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2244
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002245Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
22462008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002247Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002248
2249Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2250Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2251'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002253Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2254Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2255
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002256Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2257Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2258
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020022598 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2260 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2261 several).
2262 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2263 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2264 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2265Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2266
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002267The utf class table is missing some entries:
2268 0x2212, minus sign
2269 0x2217, star
2270 0x2500, bar
2271 0x26ab, circle
2272
2273Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2274line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2275
2276GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2277Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2278
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002279Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2280try the Cocoa version.
2281
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002282Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2283changed or the window is resized.
2284
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002285GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2286the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2287
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002288Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2289Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002290
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002291Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
22921) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2293
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002294C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2295with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2296Try to reproduce at work.
2297
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002298Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2299Is there a way to list all the files first?
2300
2301When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2302result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
230316)
2304
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002305Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2306(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2307
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002308Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2309Await response to question to make the register writable.
2310
2311Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
23121)
2313
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002314In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2315each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2316
2317try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2318
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002319try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002321":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2322Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002324Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2325
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002326Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2327Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2328
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002329Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2330Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2331Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002332
2333C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2334(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2335
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002336When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2337and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2338
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002339Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2340 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2341
2342New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2343
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002344":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2345a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2346
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002347'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2348Likonen, March 19)
2349
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002350Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2351other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2352
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002353The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2354appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2355matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002357When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2358character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2359'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2360(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2361
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002362Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2363Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002364
2365More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2366
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002367Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2368http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2369
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002370Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2371back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2372Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002373
2374Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2375No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2376
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002377Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2378terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002379
2380Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2381
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002382Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2383but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2384that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002385
2386When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2387
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2389Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2390
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002391Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2392popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2393size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2394This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2397it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2398
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002399Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2400then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2401files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002402Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2403indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2404":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002405in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2406quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002407Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002408
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002409When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2410parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2411neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2412particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2413Jun 3)
2414However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2415the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002416
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002417A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2418Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002420Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2421Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2422
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002423Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2424switch list is noticed:
2425 switch (i)
2426 {
2427 case 1:
2428 foobar:
2429 }
2430
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002431Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2432
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002433Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2434with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2435go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2436moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2437
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002438Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2439Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2440Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2441argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2442(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2443
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002444Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2445(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2446
2447Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2448makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2449.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2450 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2451
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002452Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
24532007 Feb 8)
2454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002455Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2456set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002457
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002458Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002460Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2461Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2462New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2463patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2464
2465Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2466Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2467
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002468Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
24692007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002470Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002471
2472Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002473label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2474
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002475Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2476with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2477Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2480
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002481Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2482Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2483only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2484
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002485Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2486Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002487Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002488properly?
2489
2490Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
24912007 Jun 21)
2492
2493When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2494Jun 18)
2495
2496If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2497
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002498Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2499windows. (Adam George)
2500
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002501F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2502modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2503K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002504
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002505In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2506the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2507
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002508C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2509
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002510":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2511
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002512When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002513error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002514
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2516use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2517
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002518Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2519if_ruby.c.
2520
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002521":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2522
2523The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2524it in keep_msg?
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002527error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002528name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2529
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002530Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2531longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002533Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2534Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2535Also for ":w" without a file name.
2536The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002537
2538"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2539Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2540
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002541VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2542directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2543(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2544
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002545VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2548name?
2549
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002550Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2551
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002552When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2553(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2554Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2555will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2556
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002557gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2558This also fails with --remote.
2559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002560When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
25612008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2562all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2563
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002564aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2565
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002566When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2567(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2568
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002569Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2570the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2571
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002574Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2575superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2576
2577Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2578character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002580Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2581Jun 5)
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
25842008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2585Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2586
2587In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2588but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2589Jul 22)
2590
2591There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2592
2593Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2594":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2595somehow? Or use a new function.
2596
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002597Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2598
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002599Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2600moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2601that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2602
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002603The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2604
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002605When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002606cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2607the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002609These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2610 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2611 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2612 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2613
2614Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2615partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2616
2617In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2618buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2619reload it then?
2620
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002621For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2622
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002623Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2624only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2625
2626Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2627tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2628doesn't contain other directories.
2629
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002630Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2631Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2632
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002633Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2634 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2635 set background=dark
2636This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2637color is, not reset it.
2638
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002639Linux distributions:
2640- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2641 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2642 xfree-xterm".
2643- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2644
2645Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2646start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2647show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2648middle?
2649
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002650Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002652When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2653current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2654the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2655
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002656When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2657Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2658
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002659Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2660 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2661 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2662 - getting colors in xterm
2663 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2664
2665Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2666Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2667
2668Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2669
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002670A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2671Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2672
2673Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2674Dara, 2006 June 21)
2675
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2677number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2678
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2680the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2681
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002682Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002683
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002684Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2685Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2686
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002687Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026882008 Sep 29)
2689
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002690In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2691check the result of has("patch13").
2692
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002693Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2694restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2695
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002696Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2697and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2698
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2700put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2701
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002702Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2703resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2704
2705In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2706can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2707
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002708GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2709maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2710doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002711Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2712visible.
2713
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002714When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2715differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002716
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2718be only one.
2719
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002720Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002721"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2722name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2723Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002724
2725Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2726(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2727
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002728Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2729as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2730
2731Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2732Jan 1)
2733
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002734Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
273523)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002736
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002737":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2738tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2739Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002741When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2742text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2743latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2744
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002745Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2746no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2747
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002748In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2749VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27502007 Oct 16)
2751
2752TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2753Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2754
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002755Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002757When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2758typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2759Sep 3, 11)
2760
2761When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2762respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2763the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2764what happens for the GUI.
2765
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002766":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2767this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2768
2769When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2770Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2771restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2772
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002773Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
27742010 Jun 30)
2775
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002776Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2777'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2778(Kartik Agaram)
2779
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002780
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002781Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002782- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2783 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2784- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2785 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2786 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2787- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2788 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2789 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002790- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2791- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002792
2793
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002794More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002795- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2796 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002797- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2799 patch May 10)
2800- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2801 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2802- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2803 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2804- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2805- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2806- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2807 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2808 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002809- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002810- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2811 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2812- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2813 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2814- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2815 21)
2816- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2817 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2818- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2819 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002820- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2821 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002822- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2823 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2824 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2825 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2826 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002827- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002828
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002829Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000028309 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2831 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2832 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2833 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2834 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2835 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2836 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2837 (Alan Schmitt)
2838 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002839 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2840 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028419 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002842 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028438 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028447 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2845 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2846 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028478 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002848 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028497 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002850 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2851- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2852 for multi-byte characters.
2853- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2854- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2855 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2856 been given values.
2857 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
28588 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002859 with an ESC sequence.
2860 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2861 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2862 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028637 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2864 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2865- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2866 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2867 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
28688 Add functions:
2869 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2870 Update 2004 Sep 10
2871 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2872 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002873 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002874 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2875 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2876 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2877 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2878 (2003 May 13)
2879 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2880 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2882 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002883 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2884 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2885 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028867 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2887 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2888- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2889 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
28907 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2891 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028928 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2893 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028947 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28958 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2896 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28977 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2898 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028997 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2900- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2901 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2902 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002903- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2904 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2905- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2906
2907
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002908Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002909- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2910 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029118 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2912 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2913 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2914 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2915 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2916 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029178 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2918 make Vim exit.
29197 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2920 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2921 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29228 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2923 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2924 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29256 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2926 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2927 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29288 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2929 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2930 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2931 names in one buffer???
2932 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2933 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2934 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29357 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2936 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2937 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002938 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2939 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029407 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2941 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29427 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
29437 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029447 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2945 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2946 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2947 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29487 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29497 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29507 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2951 to the match with the tag? Option?
29527 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29537 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2954 (Sayre).
29557 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2956 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029577 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2958 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2959 match. Nvi can do it too.
29607 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2961 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2962 line 1\ line 2\\
2963 line 2\ line 3\\
2964 . line4/
29656 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2966 the way the shell is started?
29676 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2968 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2969
2970
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002971GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029729 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029738 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2974 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2975 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000029768 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2977 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2978 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029799 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2980 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2981 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2982 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002983- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2984 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2985 blocked for now.
2986
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002987
2988Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002989- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2990 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029918 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2992 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2993 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
29948 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2995 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029966 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2997 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000029988 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2999 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3000 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030017 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3002 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3003 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030047 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3005 2004 May 9)
30068 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3007 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3008 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3009 MS-Windows 98?
3010 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3011 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3012 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3013 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030148 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3015 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3016 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3017 doesn't work properly.
30188 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3019 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3020 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30219 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3022 button doesn't give popup menu.
3023 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3024 selection.
3025 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3026 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3027 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30288 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3029 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3030 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3031 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30328 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3033 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3034 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030357 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3036 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3037 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
30387 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3039 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003040 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030417 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3042 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030436 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
30448 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3045 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3046 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
30478 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3048 know which keyboard is being used?
30497 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3050 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3051 area (Koloseike).
30528 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3053 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3054 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3055 the font name).
3056
3057
3058Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030596 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3060 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3061 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3062 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3063 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030649 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3065 required and it's missing?
30668 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3067 wrong.
30689 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3069 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000030709 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003071 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3072 flag.
30738 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3074 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3075 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
30768 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
30776 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3078 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3079 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3080 the tooltips work though...
30817 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3082 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
30838 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3084 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3085 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3086
3087
3088Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010030899 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3090 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030919 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3092 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3093 through files.
30947 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3095 read long file names. (Schroeder)
30964 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3097 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3098 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3099 problem during a refresh.
31005 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3101 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3102 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3103 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3104 colors as it should.
3105 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3106 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3107
3108
3109Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003110- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031117 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3112 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031138 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3114 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3115 (Phillipps)
3116
3117
3118GUI:
31199 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3120 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31219 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003122 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003123 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31249 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3125 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
31268 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3127 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
31288 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3129 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3130 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31318 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3132 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3133 of where it is processing the output.
3134 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31358 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3136 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031378 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031388 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3139 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3140 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031418 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031428 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3143 browse().
31448 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3145 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31468 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3147 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031487 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3149 - regexp on/off
3150 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3151 when all buffers/directory is used:
3152 - filter for file name
3153 when directory is used:
3154 - subdirectory on/off
3155 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031568 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3157 to avoid problems.
31588 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3159 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3160 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
31618 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3162 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3163 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
31648 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3165 up. Set erase character somehow?
31668 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3167 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3168 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3169 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
31708 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
31717 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3172 visible.
31737 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3174 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
31757 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3176 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
31778 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3178 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
31798 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3180 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3181 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3182 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3183- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31844 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3185 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3186 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3187
3188
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003189Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031908 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3191 a good fallback, thus use:
3192 $HOME
3193 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3194 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3195 $USERPROFILE
3196 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3197 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3198 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3199 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032008 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3201 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32028 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3203 Should work like in the GUI version.
32048 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3205 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32068 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3207 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32088 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3209 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3210 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032118 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3212 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3213 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3214
3215
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003216Win32 console:
32179 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3218 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3219 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3220 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3221 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3222 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3223 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3224 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3225 and the file is not saved.
3226 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3227 long name.
32288 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3229 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32307 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3231 besides the console.
32328 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32339 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3234 <C-S-i>?
32359 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3236 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32378 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3238 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003239
3240
3241Amiga:
32428 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3243 sequences.
32449 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3245 backslashes in result.
32468 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3247 all options, using white space separation.
3248
3249
3250Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003251- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032527 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3253 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3254 (Jack)
3255 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032568 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3257 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032588 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
32598 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
32609 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3261 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032629 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003263
3264
3265"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003266- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3267 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003268- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3269 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003270- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3271 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3272 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3273 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3274 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3275 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3276 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000032779 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3278 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000032799 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003280 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3281 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032828 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3283 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3284 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003285 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032867 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3287 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32888 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3289 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3290 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032917 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3292 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003293- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3294 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032958 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3296 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3297 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3298 using the horizontal scrollbar.
32997 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3300 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3301 invocations belong together.
33028 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3303 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33048 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3305 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3306 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003307 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033088 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3309 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3310 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033118 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3312 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033137 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3314 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3315 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3316 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033177 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3318 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3319 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33207 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3321 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3322 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33237 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3324 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033257 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3326 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033279 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3328 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3329 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3330 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3331 script can be called.
33328 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3333 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3334 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033358 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3336 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033378 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003338 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3339 configurable?
33408 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033418 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3342 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033438 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3344 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033458 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3346 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033479 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3348 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3349 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033507 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3352 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3353 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033548 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3355 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003356 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3357 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033588 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3359 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33609 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3361 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3362 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003363 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033647 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3365 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033667 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3367 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3368 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3369 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033708 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003371 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3372 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3373 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3374 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003375 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3376 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003377 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003378 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003379 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3380 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3381 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3382 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3383 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033848 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3385 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33868 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3387 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33888 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3389 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3390 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33918 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3392 'linebreak'.
33938 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3394 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3395 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033969 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3397 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3398 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3399 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34009 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3401 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
34029 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3403 isn't updated).
34049 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34059 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3406 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3407 cause another redraw, etc.
34088 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3409 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34108 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3411 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3412 ":w!!" for that.
3413 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3414 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003415 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034167 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3417 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3418 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3419 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3420 clipboard)
34217 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3422 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3423 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034246 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3425 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3426 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034278 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3428 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34298 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3430 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3431 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000034328 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034338 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3434 (e.g., ":w").
34358 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3436 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034378 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3438 script in do_cmdline().
34398 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3440 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3441 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3442 changes.
34438 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3444 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
34458 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3446 check for file marks. This can be slow.
34477 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3448 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3449 needed.
3450 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
34518 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3452 to skip catch_signals()?
34539 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3454 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3455 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3456 text?
34578 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3458 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34598 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3460 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34619 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3462 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3463 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3464 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3465 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34667 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3467 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3468 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3469 in the list?
34708 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3471 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3472 instead of on button down.
34738 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
34749 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3475 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003476 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3477 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034788 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3479 character is typed.
34808 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3481 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
34828 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3483 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34848 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3485 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3486 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3487 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3488 cygwin bash.
34897 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3490 Remember flags for backreferences.
34917 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3492 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34937 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3494 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34958 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3496 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34977 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3498 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034997 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3500 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3501 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
35027 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3503 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
35048 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3505 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3506 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
35077 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3508 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003509
3510
3511I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
35129 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3513 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3514 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003515
3516
3517Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003518- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3519 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3520 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003521- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3522 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3523 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3524 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3525 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3526 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003527 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003528- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3529 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003530 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003531 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3532 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3533 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003534- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3535 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3536 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3537 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3538 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3539- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3540 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3541 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3542- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3543 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003544- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003545- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3546 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3547 character gets the highlighting.
3548- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3549 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3550- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3551 (Jennings)
3552- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3553- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3554 errors. How do we get the rest?
3555- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003556- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003557 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003558- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3559 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3560 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3561- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3562 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3563 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3564 (Benzinger).
3565- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3566 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3567 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3568- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3569 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3570- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3571 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3572- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3573 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3574 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3575 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3576 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3577 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3578- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3579 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3580 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003581- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3582 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3583 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003584- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3585 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3586 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3587- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3588 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3589- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3590 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003591- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3592 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3593- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3594 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3595 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3596 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3597 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3598- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3599 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3600 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3601- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3602 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3603 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003604- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3605 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 +00003606- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3607 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3608 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3609 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3610 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3611- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3612 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3613
3614--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3615 *extensions-improvements*
3616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003617Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3618- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3619 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3620 calling a function.
3621 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3622 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003623- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3624 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003625- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3626 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3627 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3628 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3629 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3630 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003631 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003632- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3633 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3634 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003635- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3636 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036378 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3638 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3639 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3640 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003641- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3642 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003643
3644
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036468 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3647 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036488 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3649 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036508 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3651 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036528 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036539 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3654 - change to cursor position and curswant
3655 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3656 - how it works for folded lines
3657 - how it works with multi-byte characters
36589 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3659 work too.
36608 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3661 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3662 text.
36638 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36647 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3665 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36667 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3667 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003668 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003669- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3670
3671
3672Help:
3673- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3674 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3675- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3676 to the other matches.
3677- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003678- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3679 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3680 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3681 default contents.
3682- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3683 height for the help window (and other windows).
3684- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3685- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3686- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3687
3688
3689User Friendlier:
36908 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3691 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3692 Briscoe)
36938 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36948 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3695 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3696 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36978 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3698 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3699- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3700 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
37029 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3703 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3704 item?).
3705 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037068 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000037077 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3708 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3709 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000037108 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3711 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3712 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3713 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003714
3715
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003716Tab pages:
37179 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037187 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3719 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037208 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037218 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037227 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037237 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003724 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037258 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3726 tab pages.
37277 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037287 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3729 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003730
3731
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003732Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003733- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3734 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3735- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3736 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3737 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3738- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3739 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003740- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3741 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3742 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003743- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3744 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3745 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003746- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3747 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003748- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003749 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3750 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037518 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3752 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37538 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3754 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37558 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3756 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003757 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003758 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3759 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3760 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3761 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003762- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3763 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003764- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003765- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3766 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003767- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003768 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003769- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003770 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003771- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3772 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003773- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3774 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3775- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003776 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003777 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3778 in the affix file separately.
3779 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003780 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003781 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3782 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3783 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3784- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3785 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3786 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3787 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3788 Alternative:
3789 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3790 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3791 affix which is required.
3792- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003793 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003794- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3795 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3796 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003797- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3798 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003799- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3800 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3801- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038028 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3803 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3804 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3805 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003806- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3807 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3808 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3809 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038108 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3811 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038128 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
38138 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3814 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038157 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
38168 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3817 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3818 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3819 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003820
3821
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003822Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038239 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3824 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038258 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003826 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003827
3828Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003829 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3830 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038318 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3832 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038338 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038348 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3835 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3836 user aware of this?
38378 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3838 commands skip over a closed fold.
38398 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38408 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038417 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003842- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3843 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3844 missing line goes unnoticed.
3845 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003846- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3847 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3848 smoother?
3849- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3850 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003851- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3852 file can contain:
3853 args version.c main.c
3854 edit version.c
3855 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003856- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003857- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3858 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003859- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3860 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003861- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3862 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003863- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003864
3865Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003866- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3867 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3868 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3869 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038709 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3871 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3872 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3873 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038749 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3875 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3876 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038778 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3878 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3879 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3880 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3881 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3882 item.
38838 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003884 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3885 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038868 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3887 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003888 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003889 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038908 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3891 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038928 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3893 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3894 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038957 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3896 so that the user can fix the problem.
38978 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3898 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038999 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
39008 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039018 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
39028 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039037 Searching and composing characters:
3904 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003905 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3906 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039078 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39088 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
39098 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3910 characters.
39118 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39128 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3913 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39147 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3915 'display' option to specify this.
39167 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3917 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3918- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3919 fontselector somehow.
3920- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3921 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3922- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3923 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3924- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3925 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3926 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3927 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3928 if a font exists?
3929- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003930 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003931- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3932 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003933- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3934 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3935 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3936 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3938 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003939 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3941 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3942 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3943 But it's very complicated...
3944
3945
3946Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039477 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003948- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3949- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3950 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003951- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3952 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003953- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3954- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3955 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003956- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3957 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003958- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3959 units as for the margins.
3960- Support right-to-left text?
39618 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3962 color.
3963
3964
3965Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039668 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3967 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
39688 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3969 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
39708 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3971 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000039727 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3973 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039748 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3975 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3976 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039777 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3978 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3979 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039808 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39819 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3982 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039837 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3984 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039857 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3986 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039878 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3988 change this for each release.
39898 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3990 pattern, but not in the body.
39918 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3992 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3993 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039948 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039958 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003996 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3997 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039988 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3999 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40008 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4001 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004002 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040038 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4004 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4005 used.
40068 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4007 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40088 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4009 re-insert the [] if possible.
40108 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4011 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040128 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4013 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4014 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4015 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4016 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040178 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4018 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40198 Support for deleting syntax items:
4020 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4021 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4022 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40238 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4024 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4025 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40267 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4027 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4028 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40297 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4030 detected.
40318 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004032 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040338 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4034 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040358 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40368 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40377 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4038 ":mkvimrc".
40398 Improve c.vim:
4040 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4041 "c_strict_ansi".
4042 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40438 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4044 current line while in Insert mode.
40458 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4046 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40478 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4048 display position.
40498 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4050 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4051 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40528 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4053 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4054 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040557 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4056 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4057 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4058 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4059 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040607 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4061 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4062 E.g. for this html:
4063 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040647 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
40657 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4066 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040678 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
40688 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040697 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4070 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4071 completion?
40728 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4073 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
40747 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4075 select one of the sets.
40768 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4077 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4078 2, etc.
40798 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4080 highlighting (for "." command).
40818 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4082 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40838 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40847 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4085 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40866 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4087 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4088- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4089 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4090- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004091- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4092 (for comment blocks).
4093- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4094 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4095 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4096 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4097 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4098 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4099 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4100 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4101 (Campbell)
4102 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4103 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41047 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4105 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41067 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4107 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4108 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41097 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4110 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4111 messages. And external commands?
41128 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4113 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41147 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4115 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4116
4117
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004118Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041198 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4120 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004121 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041227 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4123 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4124 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041258 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4126 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004127- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4128 2006 Dec 11.
4129- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020041308 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4131 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4132 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4133 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4134 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4135 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041367 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4137 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041388 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041398 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4140 can be the plugin name.
4141 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4142 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041437 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4144 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4145 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4146 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4147 autocommand.
4148 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4149 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4150 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4151 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041527 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4153 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041546 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4155 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041568 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004157 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4158 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004159 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4160 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4161 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004162 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4163 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4164 3 2002
4165 Only add this when also implemented for
4166 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4167 be used.
4168 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004169 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4170 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4171 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4172 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4173 File.Open..." argument.
4174 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4175 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4176 with properties instead.
4177 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4178 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4179 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004180 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004181 crypt() encrypt string
4182 decrypt() decrypt string
4183 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4184 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004185 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004186 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004187 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004188 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004189 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004190 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4191 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004192 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4193 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004194 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4196 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4197 to allow the library to execute a command or
4198 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041997 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4200 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42018 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4202 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042038 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4204 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042058 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020042069 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004207 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
42086 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042098 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4210 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042118 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4212 option or environment variable.
42138 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042148 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004215 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042167 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4217 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4219 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42208 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42218 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4222 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4223 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4224 charwise({expr}).
42257 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4226 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4227 buffer for this?
4228 result = scratch(string, command)
4229 result = apply(string, command)
4230 result = execute(string, command)
4231 "command" would use <> notation.
4232 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42337 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004234
4235
4236Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042376 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4238 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4239 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4240 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4241 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4242 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4243 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244
4245
4246Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042477 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4248 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042497 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4250 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4251 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4252 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042538 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4254 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4255 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4256 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004257 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042588 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
42599 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
42608 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
42617 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4262 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
42638 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4264 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4265 when starting up in a color terminal.
42668 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4267 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042688 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4269 function be improved?
42708 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4271 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4272 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4273 this be improved?
42748 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4275 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000042767 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4277 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042787 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4279 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42807 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4281 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042827 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4283 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4284 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4285 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4286 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4287 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4288 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042898 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4290 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4291 using strcmp() too often?
42927 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4293 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4294 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4295 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4296 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4297 the two blocks to the memfile block.
42987 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4299 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4300 with an argument that can be messed with.
4301 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4302 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43037 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4304- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43058 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4306 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4307- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4308 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4309- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4310- Do profiling on:
4311 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004312 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4313 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4314 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4315 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4316 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4317 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004318 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043197 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4320 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4321 changed).
4322 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4323 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4324- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4325- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4326 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4327- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4328 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4329 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004330- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4331- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4332 cursor is right of the screen.
43338 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4334 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4335
4336
4337Code size:
43388 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4339- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4340 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43418 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43428 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4343 it.
43447 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4345 left out.
43468 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4347 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010043488 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004349
4350
4351Messages:
43528 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4353 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
43548 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4355 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
43568 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4357 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004358- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4359 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4360- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043618 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4362 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043639 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4364 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4365 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4366 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4367 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043688 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4369 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
43708 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4371 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4372 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4373 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4374 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4375 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004376- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004377 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043788 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4379 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4380 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4381 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4382 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4383 error messages, printing text, etc.
43848 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4385 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4386 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4387
4388
4389Screen updating:
43907 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4391 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4392 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4393- screen_line():
4394 - insert/delete character stuff.
4395 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4396- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4397 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4398- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4399 waiting for a character.
44008 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4401 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4402 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004403
4404Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044058 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044066 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4407- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4408 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4409 windows.
44107 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4411 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4412 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4413- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4414 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4415 (Goldfarb)
4416- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4417 bound windows.
4418- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4419 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004420- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004421- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4422 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4423 of lines but not with a single line).
4424
4425
4426Autoconf:
44278 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44288 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4429 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4430- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4431 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4432- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4433- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4434- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4435
4436
4437Perl interface:
44388 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044397 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44407 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44416 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4442
4443
4444Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044458 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4446 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044476 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4448 :libload internal-name libname
4449 :libunload internal-name
4450 :liblist
4451 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4452 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4453 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44546 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4455
4456
4457Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000044589 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4459 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4460 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4461 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4462 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044638 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4464 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4465 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004466 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004467 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000044687 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4469 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4470 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044718 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
44728 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4473 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044747 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4475 window for each tag.
44767 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
44777 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4478 bottom" search message.
44797 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4480 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4481 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004482- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4483- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004484- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4485 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4486 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4488 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4489 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4490 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44917 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4492 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4493 :tagargs clear
4494 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4495 matching).
44967 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4497 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4498 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4499 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45007 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4501 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45027 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4503 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4504 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505
4506
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004507Win32 GUI:
45088 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4509 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045107 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4511 (Mike McCollister)
45128 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4513 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4514 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4515 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4516 common part of the path.
45178 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45188 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4519 gettext and menus work.
45208 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4521 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004522 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45248 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4525 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45268 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4527 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45287 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4529 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45307 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45317 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45327 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4533 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4534 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4535 prompts.
45367 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4537 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4538 the file added into an already running Vim.
45397 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4540 functions to find the window title.
4541
4542
4543GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020045448 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004545- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4546 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
45477 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45488 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45496 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45508 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4551 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45529 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45537 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45548 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4555 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45568 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4557 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4558 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45598 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4560 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45618 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4562 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4563 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4564 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045657 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
45668 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4567 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045687 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4569 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4570 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045718 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
45728 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004573 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045748 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
45758 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
45768 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4577 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4578 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45797 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4580 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4581 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45827 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4583 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45847 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4585 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4586 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4587 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045887 Should support multi-column menus.
4589- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4590 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4591- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45928 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45936 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4594 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45957 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45967 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4597 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4598 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
45997 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46008 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4601 name can be chosen free.
46027 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4603 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46046 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4605 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4606 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4607 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4608 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4609 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4610 things.
46117 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4612 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046137 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004614 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004615- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4616 where it was started from?
46177 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4618
4619
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004620Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046219 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4622 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004623- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046248 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4625 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4626 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4627 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46288 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4629 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046307 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4631 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4632 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4633 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046347 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046358 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4636 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046378 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4638 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4639 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046407 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4641 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4642 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046438 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4644 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4645 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046468 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4647 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046488 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046496 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4650 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046517 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046527 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004653 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4654 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4655 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046565 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4657 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4658 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46597 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4660 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4661 file.
46628 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4663 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4664 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004665- Add events to autocommands:
4666 Error - When an error happens
4667 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004668 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004669 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004670 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004671 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4672 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004673 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004674 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004675 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4676 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4677 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4678 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004679 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004680 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4681 the char.
4682 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4683 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4684 file from CVS).
4685 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4686 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4687 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4688 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4689 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4690 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004691 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4692 changes.
4693 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4694 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004695- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004696 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004697 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004698 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4699 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4700 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4701 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4702 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4703
4704
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004705Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004706- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4707 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004708- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4709 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4710 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4711 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4712 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004713- Ideas from others:
4714 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4715 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4716 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4717 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4718 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4719 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4720 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4721 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4722 Uses Perl for C++.
4723 Uses ctags to find the info:
4724 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4725 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4726 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4727 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4728 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4729 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004730 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004731 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4732- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4733
4734
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004735Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004736- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047377 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4738 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047397 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4740 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4741 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047428 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4743 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47449 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4745 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4746 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047478 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4748 - ignore/match case
4749 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047508 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4751 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4752 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4753 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4754 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4755 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047577 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4758 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047598 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4760 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4761 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4762 Should work for C++ and Java.
4763 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
47647 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
47657 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4766 instead of words.
47678 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
47688 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4769 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
47708 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4771 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004772- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4773 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004774- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4775 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4776 wildcards in the file name)?
4777- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4778- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4779- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4780 be in another file).
4781- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4782- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4783- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4784 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4785- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4786- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4787- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004788- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4789
4790
4791Command line editing:
47927 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4793 line.
47948 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4795 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4796 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4797- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4798 lines wraps to start of line).
4799- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4800 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4801 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4802 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4803 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4804 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4805 cmdwin does now already.
4806 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4807 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4808 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4809 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4810 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4811 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4812 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4813 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4814 Problems:
4815 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4816 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4817 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4818 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4819 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4820 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4821 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4822 character in first column?
4823 - Implementation ideas:
4824 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4825 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4826 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4827 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4828 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4829 Mode.
4830
4831
4832Command line completion:
48338 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48348 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4835 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48368 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4837 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048388 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4839 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048407 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4841 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004842- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4843- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4844 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048458 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4846 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
48477 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4848 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4849- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4850 identifiers (Webb).
48518 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4852 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
48537 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4854 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4855- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4856 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4857- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4858 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4859 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004860
4861
4862Command line history:
4863- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4864 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4865 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004866 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004867- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4868 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4869
4870
4871Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048729 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4873 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4874 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048758 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4876 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4877 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4878 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4879 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048808 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4881 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4882 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048837 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4884 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004885- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048867 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4887 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4888- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4889 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4890 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4891 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4892 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4893 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4894- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4895 Normal mode.
4896- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4897 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4898 are used.
4899- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4900- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4901- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4902
4903
4904'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049059 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4906 char * veryLongName =
4907 "very long string"
4908 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049098 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049108 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4911 long_type foo =
4912 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049138 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4914 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004915 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049168 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4917 func(
4918 new String[] {
4919 "asdf",
4920 "asdf"
4921 }
4922 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049238 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4924 (Chow Loong Jin)
4925 namespace {
4926 int
4927 func(int arg) {
4928 }
4929 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049306 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4931 func( arg1
4932 , arg2
4933 , arg3
4934 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049357 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004936 func(
4937 int x) // indent like "(4"
4938 {
4939 if (a
4940 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049419 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4942 if (a)
4943 {
4944 if (b)
4945 {
4946 // {
4947 }
4948 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004949 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4950 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4951 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004952- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
49547 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4955- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4956 line).
4957- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4958- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4959 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4961 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4962- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4963 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4964- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4965- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4966 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
49678 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4968 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4969 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4970- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4971- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4972 lines start with "\item".
4973- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4974 /* here is a comment that
4975 is just autoindented, and
4976 nothing else */
4977- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
49787 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4979 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4980 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004981 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982
4983
4984Java:
49858 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4986 Odendahl?
49878 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4988 "[i" commands and friends.
4989- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4990 (Jason)
4991- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4992 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4993
4994
4995'comments':
49968 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4997 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4998 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4999 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005000 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5001 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050027 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5003 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50047 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50056 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5006 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5007 regexp is used.
50088 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5009 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5010
5011
5012Virtual edit:
50138 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050147 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5015
5016
5017Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050188 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050198 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050208 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005021 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050228 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5023 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005024 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5025 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050268 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050278 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5028 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050298 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5030 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5031 the end of the line or before a ".".
50327 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5033 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50347 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5035 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050366 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
50375 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5038 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5039 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5040 cursor is on.
5041
5042
5043Select mode:
50448 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5045 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
50467 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005047 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050487 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5049 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5050 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5051 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5052 normal_cmd().
5053 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5054 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5055
5056
5057Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020050588 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5059 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005060- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5061 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5062 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005063- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5064 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5065 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050668 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005067 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005068 where needed.
50697 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5070 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
50717 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5072 of each selected line.
50738 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
50748 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5075 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5076 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
50778 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5078 Ben Godfrey)
50797 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5080 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50817 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5082 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050837 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005084 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005085 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50868 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5087 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50887 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5089 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5090 option!
50917 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5092 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5093 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5094 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5095 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5096 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5097 without changing the column.
50986 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050997 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5100 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051016 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5102 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51036 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051046 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005105 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005106 or other special character.
51076 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5108
5109
5110More advanced repeating commands:
5111- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005112- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005113- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005114 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5115 "y." will repeat last yank.
5116 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5117 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5118 and/or pick an older command.
5119- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5120
5121
5122Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051238 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5124 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5125 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51268 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51277 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5128 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051298 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5130 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51318 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051327 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051338 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5134 entering search strings.
51358 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5136 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5137 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051388 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5139 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051407 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051417 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5142 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051436 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5144 abbreviations are to be used.
5145- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5146 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5147 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005148- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5149 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5150 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5151 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5152 Or implicit:
5153 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5155 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5156 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005157- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5158 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5159- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5160 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
51616 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5162 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5163 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5164 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005165- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5166 non-replace Insert mode?
5167- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005168- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5169- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5170 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5171- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005172 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005173- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5174 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5175- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5176- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5177 ":freekeys".
5178- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5179
5180
5181Incsearch:
5182- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5183- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5184 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5185 up every time.
5186- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5187 folds when going to another line.
5188- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5189 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5190 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5191 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005192
5193
5194Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051959 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051968 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005197 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005198 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005199 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005200 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052019 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5202 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052038 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5204 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052058 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5206 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5207 Perl does it this way:
5208 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5209 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5210 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5211 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052128 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5213 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5214 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052157 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5216 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052178 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5218 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052197 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005220 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5221 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5222 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052237 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005224 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052257 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5226 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5228 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52298 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5230 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020052317 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005232 example.
52338 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5234 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5235- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5236 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5237 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5238 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052398 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5240 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5241 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
52427 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5243 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000052447 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5245 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052468 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5247 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052488 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5249 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052508 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5251 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5252 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5253 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005254- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5255 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005256- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5257 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5258- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5259 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5260 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5261 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052628 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5263 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5265 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052668 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5267 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5268 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005269- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5270 i ignore case
5271 I use case
5272 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5273 v use Vi regexp syntax
5274 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5275 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5276 Perl uses these too:
5277 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5278 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5279 o compile only once (Perl only)
5280 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5281 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5282 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5283 following command.
5284 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5285- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5286 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5287 for search string)?
52887 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5289 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5290- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5291 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5292- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5293 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5294- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5295- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005296 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005297 a for the next file in the argument list
5298 f for file in the buffer list
5299 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005300 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5301 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005302 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5303 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5304- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053057 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005306 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053077 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5308 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5309 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5310 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53116 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5312 effects.
53137 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5314 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5315 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053167 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 Also ":dselect".
5318
5319
5320Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053219 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5322 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5323 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053249 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5325 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020053268 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5327 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053288 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5329 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5330 timestamp?
5331 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5332 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005333- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5334 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005335- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5336 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5337 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
53388 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5339 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5340 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5341 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
53428 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5343 only remember the lines that really changed.
53447 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5345 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5346 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5347 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005348- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5349 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5350- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5351 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5352- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5353 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5354 [-99].
5355- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5356- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5358 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5359
5360
5361Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053627 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5363 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5364 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5365 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
53668 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5367 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
53688 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5369 inode too.
53707 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005371 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5372 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053737 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5374 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5375- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5376 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5377- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5378 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
53797 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5380 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
53817 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5382 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
53838 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053847 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5385 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053868 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5387 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5388 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005389
5390
5391Swap (.swp) files:
53928 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5393 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5394 there are short file name problems.
53958 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5396 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
53978 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
53988 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005399 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5401 file the same as the actual file?
5402 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054037 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5404 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
54057 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005406 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005407 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5408 enough room.
54097 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5410 or /var/preserve.
5411- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5412 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5413- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005414 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005415- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5416 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5417 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5418 cached list of which line is where.
5419
5420
5421Viminfo:
54227 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5423 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5424 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054258 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5426 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5427 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054288 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5429 name. (Schild)
54308 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
54318 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054328 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054338 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5434 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5435 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5436 this?
54377 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
54387 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5439 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
54406 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5441 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5442 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5443- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5444 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5445
5446
5447Modelines:
54488 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5449 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5450 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005451- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5452 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5453 'shiftwidth'.
5454- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5455 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005456- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5457 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5458 modeline setting.
5459- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5460 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5461- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5462 .cpp files.
5463- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5464 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5465- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5466 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5467
5468
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005469Sessions:
54708 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5471 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
54727 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5473 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054748 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5475 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054768 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5477 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5478 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000054797 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5480 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000054817 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005482
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005483
5484Options:
54857 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5486 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5488 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5489 also be supported.
54908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5491 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5492 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
54937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
54947 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5495 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005496 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005497
5498
5499External commands:
55008 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5501 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
55024 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5503 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5504 -f).
55054 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
55064 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5507 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
55084 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5509
5510
5511Multiple Windows:
55127 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
55138 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5514 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
55157 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5516 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5517 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000055187 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5519 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000055207 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5521 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055226 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5523 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005524 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005525 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
55267 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5527 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5528 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5529 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5530- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5531 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5532 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5533 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5534
5535
5536Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055378 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055388 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5539 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055408 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 +000055418 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5542 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
55438 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5544 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5545 the mark was set.
55467 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5547 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5548 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5549 ":browse marks"?
55506 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055517 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5552 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
55537 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5554 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
55557 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5556 command).
55577 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5558 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5559 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5560 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
55615 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5562 mappings.
55636 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5564 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5565 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5566
5567
5568Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020055697 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005570 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005571- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5572 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000055738 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055747 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5575 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5576
5577
5578Writing files:
5579- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5580 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5581 shortname conversion.
55828 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
55838 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5584 file.
55858 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5586 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5587 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055886 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5589 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
55906 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5591 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
55926 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5593 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055948 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005595 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
55967 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5597 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
55987 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5599 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5600 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5601 waiting for a character to be typed).
56028 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5603 line of the window, like "[time]".
5604 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5605 Automatic and/or with a command.
5606
5607
5608Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000056098 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5610 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056118 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005612 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5613- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5614- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
56158 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5616 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005617- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005618 :s///N substitutes N times.
5619- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5620 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5621 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
56227 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5623 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5624 last line column 5.
56255 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5626 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5627 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5628 (Stanislav Sitar)
5629
5630
5631Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056328 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
56337 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
56348 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5635 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5636 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005637- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5638- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5639 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5640- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5641- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5642
5643
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005644Argument list:
56456 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5646 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5647 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
56486 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5649
5650
5651Registers:
56528 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056538 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5654 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5655 for every line.
56566 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5657 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5658 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5659- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5660 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5661- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5662 leader when line wraps?
5663- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5664 line in the range.
5665- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5666 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
56678 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5668 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005669
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005670
5671Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056728 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056738 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056747 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
56757 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5676
5677
5678Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000056797 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5680 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5681 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5682 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5683 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5684 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5685 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005686 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000056877 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5688 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000056897 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5690 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056918 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5692 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056937 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5694 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5695 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005696- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005697 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056987 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5699 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010057007 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5701 window as a buffer-tab selection.
57028 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057037 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5704 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
57058 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5706 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057076 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057088 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5709 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5710 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5711 in this Vim.
57128 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005713 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057148 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5715 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5716 have it apply to the following command.
57178 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5718 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5719 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5720 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057217 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5722 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057237 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5724 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5725 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5726 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057276 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
57288 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
57299 Support ACLs on more systems.
57307 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5731 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057327 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5733 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5734 (truncated to fit in the space).
57357 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
57368 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
57378 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5738 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000057397 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005740 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
57417 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5742 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057437 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057447 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
57457 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057468 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
57478 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5748 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5749 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5750 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
57518 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057528 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057538 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5754 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5755 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5756 does something like this. (Shah)
57577 Use growarray for replace stack.
57587 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5759 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
57603 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057617 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5762 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057637 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5764 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005765- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5766- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5767- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5768- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
57697 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5770 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5771- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5772 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005773- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005774- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5775 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5776- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5777 call "play newbeep.au").
5778- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5779 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5780 (Bhatt).
5781- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5782 blockwise registers).
5783- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5784 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5785- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5786 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5787 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5788 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005789- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057907 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5791 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5792- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5793 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5794 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5795 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5796 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057978 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5798 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057998 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5800 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5801 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5802 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5803 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5804- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005805- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058067 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5807 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5808- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5809 not in column 1.
58106 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5811 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
58127 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5813- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005814- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005815 :redir #> bufname
5816 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005817- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5818 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5820 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5821 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
58226 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5823 console? (Klaus Hast)
5824- Add :delcr command:
5825 *:delcr*
5826 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5827 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5828 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5829 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5830 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5831 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5832- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5833- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5834 characters from 'isprint'.
5835- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5836- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5837 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5838- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5839 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5840 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5841- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5842- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5843 Nvi).
5844- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5845 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
58467 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5847- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5848 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
58496 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5850- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5851 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5852 macro).
5853- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5855 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5856- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
58578 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005858- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5859- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5860- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5861 if it is not the first or last window.
5862- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5863 there is one) instead of the file itself.
58647 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5865 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5866 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5867- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5868- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005869 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005870 many percent down the windows).
5871- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5872 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5873 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005874 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005875- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5876 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5877- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5878 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5879- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5880- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5881- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5882 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058838 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5884 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5885 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5886 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5887 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005888- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5889 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5890- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005891 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5892- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005893 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5894 (Webb).
5895- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005896 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005897- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5898 hex codes like 0xff).
5899- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5900 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5901 the last TYPED command.
5902- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5903- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5904- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5905 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005906- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059078 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5908 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5909 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005910- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005911 trailing '.'.
5912- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5913 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5914 find_file_in_path().
5915- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5916 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5917- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5918- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5919 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5920- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005921 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005922- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5923 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5924 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005925- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5926- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5927- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5928 to the minimal size.
5929- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5930- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5931- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5932- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5933- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5935 entered)?
5936- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5937 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005938- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005939- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5940- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5941- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5942- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5943- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5944 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005945- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059468 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5947 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5948 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5949 or in octal.
59507 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5951 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005952- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005953 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5954- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5955- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5956 insert line command).
5957- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5958- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5959- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5960- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5961- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5962 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005963- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005964 yet.
5965- Implement 'redraw' option.
5966- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5967 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059687 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5969 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005970 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5971 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059728 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5973 do it.
5974- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5975- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5976 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5977- Add text justification option.
5978- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5979- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5980 off".
5981- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5982- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5983- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005984 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005985- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005986- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005987- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5988 commands.
5989- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5990- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5991- :table command (Webb)
5992- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005993- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5994- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5995- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5996- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5997- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5998 (Demirel).
5999- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6000- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6001 for use in macro's and the like.
6002- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006003 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006004- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006005 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006006- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006007 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006008 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6009- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6010 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006011- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006012 mkopttab to make option table?
6013- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6014 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6015- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6016 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006017- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006018 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6019- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6020 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060228 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6023 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6024 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6025 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6026 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060278 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6028 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6029 (Netherton)
60306 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6031 space after "(", for example.
60325 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6033 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6034 (Servatius Brandt)
6035
6036
6037From Elvis:
6038- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6039- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006040- Search patterns:
6041 \@ match word under cursor.
6042 but do:
6043 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6044 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
60458 ":window" command:
6046 :win + next window (up)
6047 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6048 :win - previous window (down)
6049 :win -- idem, wrapping
6050 :win nr to window number "nr"
6051 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
60527 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6053 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6054
6055
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006056From xvi:
6057- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6058- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6059
6060
6061From vile:
6062- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6063- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6064 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6065
6066
6067Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006068- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6069 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006070 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006071 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6072 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006073- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6074 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6075- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6076 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6077 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6078 current layout mirrored.
6079- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6080- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6081 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6082- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6083- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6084 font in each top-level window.
6085- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6086- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6087- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6088- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6089 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006090- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6091 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6092- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6093 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
60944 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6095 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6096 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6097 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006098 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006099 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6100 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6101- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6102 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6103 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6104
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006105vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
6106vim: set fo+=n :