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Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Jun 14
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020041Include src/po/vim.pot ?
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020042
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010043Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020044Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020045- assignment to script var should check type
46- Compile: let [var, var] = expr
47 share code for :let between compiled and uncompiled?
48- do not allow "let g:var = value", must drop "let"
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020049- possible memory leak in test_vim9_func through compile_nested_function.
50- memory leaks in test_vim9_expr
51- memory leaks in test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020052- Test that a script-local function in Vim9 script cannot be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020053- Check that when sourcing a Vim9 script, only the global items can be used.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020054- Make "true" and "false" work in vim9script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020055- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
56 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
57 defined.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020058- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020059- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
60 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020061- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
62- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
63 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
64 ret[i] = string(i)
65- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
66 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020067- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
68- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
69- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
70 islocked()
71- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
72- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
73- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020074- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
75 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020076- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
77 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
78 Can we share the code from ex_let_const() between direct execution and
79 compiling?
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020080- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020081- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
82- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020083- Make closures work:
84 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020085- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
86- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
87- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020088- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
89 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020090New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020091Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010092- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020093Test:
94- Using a Vim9 autoload script (functions must be global).
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020095Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020096- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
97 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010098- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010099- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
100- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100101- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
102- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100103- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100104- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100105- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
106 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
107- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100108- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100109- can use func as reference:
110 def SomeFunc() ...
111 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100112- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
113 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100114- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200115- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100116- implement class
117- implement interface
118- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200119- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100120- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
121 EVAL expr
122 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200123Further improvements:
124- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
125 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
126 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200127- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
128 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
129 body
130 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200131- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200132- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200133- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
134- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100135
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200136Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100137- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
138 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
139 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
140 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100141- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
142 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200143- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100144- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100145- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
146 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
147 the way. (#5737)
148 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200149- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100150- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
151 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
152- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200153- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200154 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100155- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
156 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200157- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100158 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100159- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200160
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200161Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200162- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
163 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100164- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100165- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100166- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
167 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100168- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100169- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200170
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100171'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200172- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
173 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100174- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
175 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200176- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200177- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200178- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
179 isn't one?
180 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
181
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200182Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100183- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200184- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100185- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200186
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200187Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200188- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100189- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
190 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200191- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100192- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200193- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
194 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
195 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100196- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100197- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
198 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100199 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100200 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200201
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200202Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200203- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200204- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
205 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
206 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
207 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200208- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
209 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100210- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
211 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200212 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
213 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100214 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100215- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100216- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
217 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200218- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
219 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200220- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200221- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200222- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
223 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200224- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
225 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
226- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
227 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200228- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
229 is disabled.
230- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
231- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
232 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200233- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
234 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
235 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
236- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
237- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
238 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
239- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
240 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200241
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200242Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200243E489, E610, E611, E653, E856, E857, E861
244
245Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
246
247Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
248Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
249
250Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
251Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
252(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
253Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
254- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
255 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
256 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
257- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
258 covered by the above change.
259So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
260same thing.
261Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200262
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200263Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
264autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
265 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
266 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
267 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
268 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
269 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
270The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
271
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200272How about removing Atari MiNT support?
273 src/Make_mint.mak, src/os_mint.h, matches with __MINT__
274
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100275Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200276Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
277How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200278
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100279File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
280
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200281"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
282add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200283Athena is OK.
284Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200285Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
286manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200287
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200288:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
289(#5623, also see #5962)
290
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200291Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
292character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200293
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200294undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
295
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100296When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
297(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
298
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200299Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
300/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
301
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200302With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
303'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100304
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200305Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
306which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
307#6127
308
309When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
310":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
311Might be related to #6088.
312
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200313When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
314Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
315(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
316
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100317Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
318(Paul Jolly, #5656)
319Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100320 Later more requests for what to track.
321 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
322 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
323 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100324BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100325Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100326
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200327Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
328
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100329Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
330(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
331
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200332Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
333
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200334Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
335
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100336:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
337Dec 19)
338
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200339Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
340Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
341
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100342Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
343May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200344Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
345remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200346Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100347Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200348
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100349When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
350the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
351
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200352Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100353Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
354in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200355Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
356(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200357
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100358Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
359ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
360
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200361Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
362that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
363Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100364
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100365Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
366(#4087)
367
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100368behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
369#5771)
370
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200371":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
372goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
373unlisted. (#4478)
374
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200375Patch for Template string: #4634
376Copies the text twice, not very efficient. Requires a separate implementation
377for Vim9 script, compiling the string parts and expressions.
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100378
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100379Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100380
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200381":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
382find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
383
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200384Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
385
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200386Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
387Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
388
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100389Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
390
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100391Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
392
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200393The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
394support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
395
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100396"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
397
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200398Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
399Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
400
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100401Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
402
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200403When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
404updated. (#6138)
405
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100406Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
407
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100408Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
409
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200410Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
411(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
412
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200413When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
414default one. #4698
415
416When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
417with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
418
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100419Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200420Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100421
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200422Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200423Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200424
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200425Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
426fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
427
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200428Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200429
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200430Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
431- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
432- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100433- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200434
435Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
43613, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200437
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100438Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
439
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100440When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
441when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
442gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
443input buffer. (#5302)
444
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200445xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
446buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
447Xterm 224 supports it!
448Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
449Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
450Also see issue #609.
451We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
452
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100453:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
454(#5467)
455
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200456Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200457
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100458Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4592007 Feb 18)
460Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
461
462Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
463Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
464
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200465Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
466
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200467Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200468Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
469Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200470
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100471Errors found with random data:
472 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100473
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200474Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
475files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
476Include part of #3242?
477
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200478When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
479it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
480
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200481Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
482Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
483Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
484
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100485":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
486window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
487#5443)
488
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200489Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
490t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
491
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100492v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
493(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
494
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100495Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
496Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
497
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200498'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
499
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200500"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
501(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
502
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200503Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
504
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100505Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
506
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200507Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
508
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100509When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
510in a long line. #5189
511
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200512The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
513Give a few examples. (#4288)
514
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200515Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
516work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
517
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005187 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
519 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
520 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200521Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200522
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100523Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
524read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
525be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
526
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100527Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
528CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
529with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
530fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
531displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
532
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200533Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
534
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200535Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
536
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200537Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
538https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
539
540Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
541http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
542http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
543Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100544- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200545- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
546- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
547 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
548- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
549- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
550Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
551- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
552- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
553Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
554- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
555
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100556Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
557Mar 5)
558
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200559Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
560- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
561 line.
562- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
563 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
564- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
565 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
566
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200567Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
568on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
569
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200570Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
571in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
572buffer didn't change at all.
573
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200574Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
575(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
576
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200577Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
578":let buf = bufcreate('name')
579
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200580Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
581'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
582(#4450)
583
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100584When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
585But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
586similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
587
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200588C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
589(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
590
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100591Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
592added?
593
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200594Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
595negative. (see #4326)
596
597'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
598`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
599tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
600:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
601
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200602This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
603 vim: syn=nosyntax
604
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200605":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
606a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
607
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100608Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
609#2948. (related to #1512?)
610On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
611balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
61220, #2481)
613Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
614Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
615balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6162018 Sep 14)
617Another request: #3811.
618
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200619More warnings from static analysis:
620https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200621
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100622Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
623
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200624Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
625
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200626Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
627internals of the dict structure.
628
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100629nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
630
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200631Missing tests for:
632- add_termcap_entry()
633
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200634Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
635change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
636them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
637
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100638Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
639Also run all tests with C locale?
640
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100641"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
642#3927
643
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200644Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200645Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200646
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100647When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
648case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
649For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
650
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200651Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
652(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
653expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200654
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200655Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
656 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
657 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
658
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100659Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100660punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100661
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200662ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
663
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200664Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
665drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
666
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200667Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
668is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
669
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100670When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
671scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
672using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
673
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200674Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
675#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
676(Sep 8)
677
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200678Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
679unified diff (list of lines).
680
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100681When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
682kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
683when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
684
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100685Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
686(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100687
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100688Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
689
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100690Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100691Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200692TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100693Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200694Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
695Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200696
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200697gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200698
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200699matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
70019.
701
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100702Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100703Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100704Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
705highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200706And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
707'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100708Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
709Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100710
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100711Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
712Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
713
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200714Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
715Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
716Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
717
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200718Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
719screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
720
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200721home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
722
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200723When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
724terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
725How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
726
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200727Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
728
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100729Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
730Feedback from someone who uses this?
731
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200732ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
733
734Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
735Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
736values.
737
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100738Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200739- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
740- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
741- omit diff.exe from distribution
742- Can we make this show differences within a line?
743- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200744
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200745Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
746
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100747Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200748What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100749
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200750When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
751includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
752
753Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200754Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200755
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200756MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
757(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
758
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100759Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
760
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200761Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
762
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200763Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
764window for the buffer.
765
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200766Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
767when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
768
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100769Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
770mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
771
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200772Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
773modified buffers
774 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
775 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
776 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
777 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
778
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100779Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
780- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
781- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
782- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100783- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
784
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200785Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
786characters. (#3246)
787
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200788'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
789
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100790Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
791Oct 28)
792
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200793ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
794Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
795Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
796Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
797
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100798Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
799- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
800
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200801Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
802- Test_setbufvar_options()
803- Test_exit_callback_interval()
804
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200805Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
806Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100807Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
808Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200809
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200810Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
811
812Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
81324)
814
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100815Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100816 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100817or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100818 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
819
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100820Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100821mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100822
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200823Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
824is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
825used for git temp files.
826
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100827Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
828
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200829Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
830behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
831(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
832
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200833Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
834pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
835
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200836Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
837script or function.
838
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200839When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
840E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
841does nothing otherwise?
842
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200843MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
844If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
845(wait a little while).
846CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100847
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200848Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
849MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8502017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
851receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
852
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200853Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
854missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
855
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200856":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
857deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
858
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200859Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200860
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200861With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
862included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
863(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
864
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200865Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200866Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200867
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100868Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100869Jan 15, #2555)
870
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200871":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
872
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100873Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
874
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100875No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
876No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
877
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200878Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
879http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
880Should be supported with a flag.
881
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100882Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
883confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
884
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100885Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
886
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100887Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
888Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
889applying the diff, etc.
890
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200891Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
892Apr 26, #2849)
893
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100894User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
895word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100896
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100897Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200898
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200899With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
900(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
901
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200902Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
903:drop (remote commands).
904
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200905Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9062018 Jun 18, #3027)
907
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200908Implement option_save() and option_restore():
909option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
910 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
911 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
912 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
913 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
914 be called when the same window is the current window.
915 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
916 the local options won't be restored.
917
918option_save({list}) *option_save()*
919 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
920 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
921 let s:saved_options = option_save([
922 \ 'ignorecase',
923 \ 'iskeyword',
924 \ ])
925 au <buffer> BufLeave *
926 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
927< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
928 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
929 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
930 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100931 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
932 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
933 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100934 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200935
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100936"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
937directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
938Also see #1689.
939
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100940When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100941highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100942
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200943":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
944
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100945No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9462017 Dec 26, #2501)
947
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200948A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
949
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200950Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
951
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200952A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
953Mention where they were defined somewhere.
954
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100955Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
956(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
957
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200958ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
959
960Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
961
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100962Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
963Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
964
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100965Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
966in #846)
967Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
968
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200969Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
970Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
971
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100972When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
973redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200974
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100975In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
976(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
977
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100978Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
979neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100980
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100981Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
982Nov 21)
983
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200984When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
985triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
986set_color_count().
987
988Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
989responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
990
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100991When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
992CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
993Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
994always nested.
995
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200996matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
997
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100998Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
999
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001000MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001001for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1002
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001003Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001004(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001005
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001006Test runtime files.
1007Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001008
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001009Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001010
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001011Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1012defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1013Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1014
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001015After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
101613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001017
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001018When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1019line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1020
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001021The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1022
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001023Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1024set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001025Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001026
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001027Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1028
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001029Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1030behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1031
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001032'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1033
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001034The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1035
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001036When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1037a command can delete it.
1038
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001039Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1040#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1041
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001042The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1043for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1044
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001045X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1046pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1047clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1048Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1049Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1050clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001051Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001052
1053Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1054
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001055Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1056attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1057that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1058
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001059Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1060(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1061
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001062Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1063buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1064Also fixes #2166?
1065
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001066Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1067stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1068
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001069Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1070possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1071
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001072When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1073case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1074
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001075Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1076existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1077Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1078
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001079Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001080
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001081MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1082Jul 4)
1083
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001084Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1085Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1086This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1087Christian cannot reproduce it.
1088
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001089Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1090wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1091Or is this not an actual problem?
1092
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001093Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1094
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001095Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1096
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001097'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1098#1736)
1099
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001100Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11018, #1690)
1102
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001103Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1104(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1105
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001106Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1107it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1108
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001109Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1110Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1111How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1112
1113Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1114(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1115
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001116Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1117
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001118assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1119it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1120
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001121Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1122for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001123
1124Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1125(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1126Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1127later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1128Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1129mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001130Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1131mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001132maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001133
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001134Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001135plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1136be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1137
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001138Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1139 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1140 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001141
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001142json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001143What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001144
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001145Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1146
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001147import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1148(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1149
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001150When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1151buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1152Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001153
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001154Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1155Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001156Another example in #1309
1157
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001158When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1159when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1160
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001161Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1162#1330)
1163
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001164Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1165
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001166Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1167
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001168GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1169g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1170timer expires.
1171
1172Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1173
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001174Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1175highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1176
11778 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1178 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1179
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001180Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1181Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1182
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001183Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1184key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1185 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1186 echo keytrans(xx)
1187 <C-Home>
1188
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001189Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1190(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1191Make a function to check for function-like type?
1192
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001193Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1194(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1195
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001196Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001197 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001198 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001199
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001200Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1201somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1202
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001203The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1204"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1205Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1206
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001207Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1208
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001209Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1210about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001211Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1212
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001213Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1214#1053) With patch, does it work?
1215
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001216":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001217vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1218
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001219Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001220E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001222
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001223Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1224Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1225
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001226Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001227Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001228
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001229"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1230(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1231
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001232Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1233(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001234Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001235
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001236'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1237
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001238Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1239
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001240When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1241Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001242Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001243
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001244Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1245anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1246
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001247Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001248E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001249
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001250Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1251(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1252
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001253Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1254
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001255On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1256separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1257
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001258min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1259contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1260
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001261Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1262
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001263Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1264
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001265Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1266
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001267Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1268no longer support.
1269
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001270sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12714#1038)
1272
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001273+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001274- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001275- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1276 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1277 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001278- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1279 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001280- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1281 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001282- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1283- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1284 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1285- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1286 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1287- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001288- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1289 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001290- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1291- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1292 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1293 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1294- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1295- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1296- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1297 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1298 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1299- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1300 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1301- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1302 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1303 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1304
1305Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001306- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1307 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1308 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1309 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001310- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1311 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001312- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1313 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1314- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1315 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1316- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1317 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1318 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1319 LC_CTYPE
1320- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1321 matches everywhere.
1322- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1323 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1324- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1325- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1326 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1327- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1328- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1329 2013 Dec 11)
1330- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1331 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1332- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1333- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1334 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1335- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1336- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1337- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1338- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1339 2015 Feb 7)
1340- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1341 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1342 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1343 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1344 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1345- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1346- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1347- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1348- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1349 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1350 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1351 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1352- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1353 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1354- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1355 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1356 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1357 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1358
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001359Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1360#1350)
1361
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001362Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13633. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1364Also see #1635.
1365
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001366When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1367command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1368
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001369Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1370doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1371Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001372Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001373E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1374
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001375cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1376
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001377:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1378
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001379Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1380
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001381When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1382synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1383
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001384Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1385Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001386
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001387ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1388Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001389
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001390Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1391
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001392Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1393Jul 25, #948)
1394
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001395Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1396names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1397Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1398the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1399
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001400'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1401
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001402MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1403Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001404
1405Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1406Also for ":@.".
1407
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001408Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1409
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001410Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1411#1125
1412
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001413Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1414times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1415
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001416Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1417
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001418Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1419
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001420Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1421
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001422We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1423the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1424
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001425Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1426
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001427When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1428emoji_width table has only one entry.
1429
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001430It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1431Reject the value? #710.
1432
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001433When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1434Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1435
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001436Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001437
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001438Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1439No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001440
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001441Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1442(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001443
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001444Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1445
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001446Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1447https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1448Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1449
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001450Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1451but the reference remains valid.
1452
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001453Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001454interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1455Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1456interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1457result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001458
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001459Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001460work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001461
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001462Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1463
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001464Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1465
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001466Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1467Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1468
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001469When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1470Apr 17) #762
1471
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001472exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1473Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1474
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001475Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1476'iskeyword' for syntax.
1477
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001478When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1479maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001480Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001481
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001482Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1483It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1484Add configure check?
1485Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1486Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1487Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1488
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001489Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1490Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1491
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001492Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1493Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1494
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001495":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1496directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1497
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001498In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1499(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1500
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001501If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15022016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001503
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001504Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1505(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1506
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001507Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1508
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001509When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1510restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1511Do not trigger the event?
1512
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001513Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1514changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1515and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001516Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1517Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15186, 2nd message)
1519Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001520
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001521Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1522Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1523https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1524
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001525Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1526With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1527
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001528Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001529
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001530Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1531
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001532Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001533Only remembers one error.
1534
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001535GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001536
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001537Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1538(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001539
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001540Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1541github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001542 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001543Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001544
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001545Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001546
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001547Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001548comparing individual items.
1549Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1550Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1551Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1552equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1553
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001554Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1555
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001556MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1557wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1558
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001559Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1560specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1561
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001562Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1563(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1564
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001565Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001566inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001567
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001568Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1569(Luchr, #277)
1570
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001571Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001572'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1573before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001574
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001575C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1576and also line continuation after #include.
1577I can't recommend it though.
1578
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001579Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1580(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1581
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001582To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1583library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1584
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001585When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1586is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1587
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001588Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
158930)
1590
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001591MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1592(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1593
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001594The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
159524): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001596
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001597":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1598effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1599
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001600":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16019)
1602
1603The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1604wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1605
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001606Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001607Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001608
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001609When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1610the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1611
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001612Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001613slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1614inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1615
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001616ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16172014 Sep 11)
1618
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001619Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1620(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1621
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001622When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1623'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1624
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001625Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1626Work in progress.
1627
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001628Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1629when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1630
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001631Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1632Is this right?
1633
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001634Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1635(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1636Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1637
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001638Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1639Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001640
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001641Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1642Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1643
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001644Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1645
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001646When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1647filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1648initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1649
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001650Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1651
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001652Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1653OK to not block marks?
1654
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001655Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1656
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001657Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1658
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001659When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1660(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1661
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001662Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001663
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001664Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1665(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1666
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001667When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1668any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1669
1670Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001671
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001672Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001673
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001674Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1675(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1676
1677Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1678
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001679Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1680Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1681was already defined.
1682(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1683
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001684Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1685
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001686Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001687Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001688Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001689Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001690
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001691Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1692(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1693
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001694Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1695(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1696
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001697Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1698
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001699When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1700these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1701window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1702
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001703Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1704should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1705history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1706Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1707
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001708"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1709Jun 8)
1710
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001711Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1712insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1713
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001714No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1715
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001716Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1717(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1718Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1719arguments.
1720
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001721Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1722
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001723Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001724
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001725Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17260x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1727New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1728compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1729
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001730Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1731a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1732
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001733Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1734right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001735its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001736
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001737Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1738
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001739This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1740 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1741This neither: (ZyX)
1742 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1743
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001744'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1745Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1746from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001747
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001748Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17492014 Jun 8)
1750
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001751Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001752Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001753Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1754Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1755User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001756- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1757 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1758 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001759- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1760- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1761 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1762 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1763 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1764 on vim.org.
1765- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1766 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1767- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1768- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1769- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1770- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1771Implementation:
1772- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1773 plugin separate.
1774- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1775 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1776 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1777- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1778 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1779- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1780 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1781 installing.
1782Out of scope:
1783- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1784- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1785 useful).
1786
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001787Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1788normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001789
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001790When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1791menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1792
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001793Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1794(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1795
1796":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1797various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001798
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001799Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001800(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1801
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001802VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1803instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1804
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001805Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001806Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001807
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001808Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001809command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001810
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001811Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1812
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001813Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1814highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001815
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001816The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1817For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1818
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001819Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001820possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001821
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001822Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001823
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001824Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1825
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018267 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1827 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1828 "lucida_console:h8").
1829Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1830
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001831:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1832
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001833Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1834
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001835Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1836
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001837When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1838(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1839
1840Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001841Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001842
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001843GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1844(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1845
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001846Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1847registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1848
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001849Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1850
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001851The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1852(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1853Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1854
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001855The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1856- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1857- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1858
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001859Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1860Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1861reliably?
1862
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001863Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1864(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1865
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001866Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1867(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1868
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001869Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18702013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001871
1872Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1873
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001874Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18755)
1876
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001877Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1878carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1879
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001880Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1881highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1882
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001883Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001884
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001885Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200188628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001887
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001888Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1889
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001890Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1891
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001892- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1893 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1894Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001895
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001896Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001897
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001898In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1899process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1900a reboot.
1901
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001902patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1903
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001904Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1905not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001906
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001907Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1908Or use expand('<sid>')?
1909
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001910Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1911
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001912Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1913
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001914b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19157)
1916
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001917Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1918compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1919
1920Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1921Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1922vim.bindeval().
1923
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001924Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19252012 Aug 4)
1926
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001927Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1928(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1929
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001930Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1931But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1932
1933Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1934Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1935Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001936
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001937Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1938loading all files.
1939
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001940MS-Windows resizing problems:
1941- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1942 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1943- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1944 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1945 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001946
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001947'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001948
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001949Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001950of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1951
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001952The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1953Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1954But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001955
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001956When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1957is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1958
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001959URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001960- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001961- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1962 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1963
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001964Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1965(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1966Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1967
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001968Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001969New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001970
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001971When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1972for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1973Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001974
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001975Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1976
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001977Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1978
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001979Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1980Apr 18)
1981
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001982Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1983And one for gui_x11.txt.
1984
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001985":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1986finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1987Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1988
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001989Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1990
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001991Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1992
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001993Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1994they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1995
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001996Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1997
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001998Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1999Nov 20)
2000
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002001Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002002Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002003
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002004`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002005(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2006
2007Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2008
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002009BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2010Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002012Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2013Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2014
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002015Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2016
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002017On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20182012 Jun 19)
2019
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002020'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2021'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2022Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002023Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002024
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002025With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2026(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2027need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2028
2029Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2030only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
203121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2032
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002033Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2034New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2035
2036Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2037Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2038
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002039Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2040Jan 19)
2041
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002042Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2043discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2044meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002045
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002046"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002047Oct 26)
2048
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002049Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2050
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002051With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2052register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002053
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002054Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2055
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002056When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2057(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2058
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002059When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2060then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2061from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2062
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002063Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2064":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
206515)
2066
2067Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2068
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002069BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2070cleared. See test64.
2071
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002072On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
207364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2074right type.
2075
2076string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2077(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2078
2079When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2080(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002081When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2082following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2083(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002084
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002085When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2086doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2087
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002088Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2089
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002090Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2091(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2092
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002093When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2094indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2095the help file.
2096
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002097After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2098Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2099
2100Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2101
2102"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2103
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002104Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2105
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002106Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002107
2108Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21092010 Dec 18)
2110
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002111With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2112number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2113Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2114
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002115Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2116Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2117
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021188 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2119Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2120
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002121Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2122one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2123the match scrolls into view.
2124
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021257 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2126Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2127Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2128
21299 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2130 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2131Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2132
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002133Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2134Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2135
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002136In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2137or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2138sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2139
2140GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2141doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2142
2143GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2144
2145Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2146Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2147
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002148Wish for NetBeans commands:
2149 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2150
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002151Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2152
21537.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2154there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2155do?
2156
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002157Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
215822)
2159
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002160New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2161- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002162- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002163 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2164
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002165"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21662011 Feb 27)
2167
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002168Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2169^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2170
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002171When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2172exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21739) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2174
2175g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2176the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2177
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002178Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2179crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2180
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002181Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2182number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2183
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002184Regexp engine performance:
2185- Profiling:
2186 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2187 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2188 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2189 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2190 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2191 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2192- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2193- Performance tests:
2194 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2195 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2196 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2197 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2198 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2199 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2200 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2201 'hlsearch'.
2202 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2203 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2204 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2205 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2206
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002207Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2208Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2209
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002210'beval' option should be global-local.
2211
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002212Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002213
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002214setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002215
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002216With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22172010 Oct 24)
2218
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002219Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2220
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002221When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2222Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2223
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002224":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2225
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002226'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2227
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002228C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2229checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2230Issue 46.
2231
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002232Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2233
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002234Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2235gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2236
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002237":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2238accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2239
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002240Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2241setwinvar().
2242
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002243Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002244
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002245When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2246instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2247
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002248Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2249Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2250Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002251
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002252Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2253back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2254
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002255Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002256Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2257
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002258CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2259the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2260FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2261
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002262Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2263Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2264
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002265Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2266Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2267
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002268Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2269
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002270Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2271non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272
2273iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2274Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2275or replace with a character and continue?
2276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2278Requires configure check for localtime().
2279Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2280
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002281Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2282Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2283
2284Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2285
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002286Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2287Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2288path.
2289
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002290Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002291Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002292
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002293'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2294
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002295":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2296like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2297
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002298Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2299https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002300
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002301Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23022010 Nov 5)
2303
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002304Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002305Jan 7)
2306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002307Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2308
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002309With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2310entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2311Feb 12)
2312
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002313Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2314characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2315
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002316Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2317
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002318Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2319 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2320
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002321Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2322
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002323When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2324Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2325
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002326When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2327not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2328string value.
2329
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002330For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331line argument -noregister.
2332
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002333When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2334missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2335
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002336When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2337doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002338
2339Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2340(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2341Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2342There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2343Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2344
2345":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2346highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2347to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2348
2349Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2350Probably needs a bit of work.
2351
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002352List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002353Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2354
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002355Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002357Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2358
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002359Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2360Sep 1)
2361
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002362Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2363
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002364Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2365on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23682009 Jul 18)
2369
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002370Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2371window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2372Needs more work.
2373
2374Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2375
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2377few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2378
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002379'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002380(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2381
2382Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2383J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2384
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002385When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2386for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2387
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002388Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2389
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2391because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2392ex_docmd.c.
2393
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002394Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002395Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2396
2397string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2398for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2399
2400Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2401
2402'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
240320)
2404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24062009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2407
2408Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2409
2410Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2411SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002413When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2414indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2415(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2416
2417Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2418are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2419Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2420Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2421that doesn't have a window.
2422
2423When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2424doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2425
2426getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2427displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2428
2429":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002431There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2432was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2433perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2434
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002435Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2438command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2439
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002440Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2441does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2442
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002443opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2444height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002445very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002446
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2448(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2449
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002450Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002451(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2452
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002453Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2454char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2455
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002456Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2457Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2458
2459This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2460
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002461Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2462messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2463es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24642009 Jan 26)
2465
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002466When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002467in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2468Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2469
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002470Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2471a modeline.
2472
2473Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2474Sergey Khorev)
2475
2476Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2477part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2480correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2481
2482Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2483(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2484
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002485shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002486'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2487Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2488unix-like shell?
2489
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002490Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2491register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2492(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2493
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002494Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2495Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2496
2497Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2498make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002500When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2501still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2502
2503"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2504(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2505
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002506Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2507that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2508ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2509Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2512doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2513probably causes this.
2514
2515'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025162009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002517
2518Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2519 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2520 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2521(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2522
2523Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2524":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2525option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2526is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002528":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2529first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002530Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002532Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2533laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2534Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002535
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2537anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2538
2539On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2540doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2541Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2542Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2543
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002544When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2545'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2546fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2547the buffer to be unmodified.
2548Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2549another look at it.
2550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002551c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2552(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2553
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002554You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2555error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2556Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2557at the other match for 0xBF.
2558
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002559When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2560argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2561
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2563backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2564
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002565When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2566line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2567
2568Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2569position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2570
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002571After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2572(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002573command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002574
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002575":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2576Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2579either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2580put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002582Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2583Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2584Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2585Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2586(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002588Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2589
2590ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2593(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2594escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2595an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002596This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2597July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002598Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2599work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2600
2601When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
260231)
2603
2604Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2605work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2606Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002608Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2609multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2610(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2611
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002612Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26132008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002614Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002615
2616Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2617Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2618'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2619
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002620Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2621Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2622
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002623Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2624Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2625
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026268 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2627 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2628 several).
2629 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2630 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2631 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2632Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2633
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002634The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002635 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636 0x2217, star
2637 0x2500, bar
2638 0x26ab, circle
2639
2640Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2641line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2642
2643GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2644Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2645
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002646Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2647try the Cocoa version.
2648
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002649Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2650changed or the window is resized.
2651
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002652GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2653the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2656Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002658Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26591) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2660
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002661C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2662with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2663Try to reproduce at work.
2664
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002665Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2666Is there a way to list all the files first?
2667
2668When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2669result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
267016)
2671
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002672Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2673(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2674
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002675Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2676Await response to question to make the register writable.
2677
2678Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26791)
2680
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002681In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2682each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2683
2684try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2685
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002686try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2687
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002688":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2689Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002691Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2692
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2694Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2695
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002696Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2697Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2698Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002700When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2701and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2702
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002703Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2704 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2705
2706New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2707
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002708":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2709a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2712Likonen, March 19)
2713
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002714Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2715other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2716
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002717The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2718appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2719matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2720
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002721When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2722character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2723'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2724(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2725
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2727Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002728
2729More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2730
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002731Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2732http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2733
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002734Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2735back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2736Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002737
2738Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2739No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2740
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002741Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2742terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743
2744Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2747but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2748that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002750Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2751Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2752
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002753Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2754popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2755size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2756This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002758When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2759it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2760
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002761Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2762then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2763files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002764Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2765indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2766":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002767in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2768quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002769Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002771When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2772parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2773neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2774particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2775Jun 3)
2776However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2777the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002778
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002779A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2780Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2781
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002782Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2783Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2784
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002785Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2786switch list is noticed:
2787 switch (i)
2788 {
2789 case 1:
2790 foobar:
2791 }
2792
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002793Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2796with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2797go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2798moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2799
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002800Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002801GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002802Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2803argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2804(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2805
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002806Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2807(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2808
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002809Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28102007 Feb 8)
2811
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002812Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2813set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002815Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2816
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002817Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2818Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2819New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2820patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2821
2822Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2823Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2824
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002825Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002826label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2827
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002828Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2829with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2830Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002832Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2833
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002834Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2835Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2836only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2837
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002838Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2839Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002840Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002841properly?
2842
2843Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28442007 Jun 21)
2845
2846When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2847Jun 18)
2848
2849If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2850
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002851Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2852windows. (Adam George)
2853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2855the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002857C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2858
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002859":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2860
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002861When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002862error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002863
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002864GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002865use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2866
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002867Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2868if_ruby.c.
2869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2871
2872The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2873it in keep_msg?
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002876error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002877name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2878
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002879Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2880longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002881
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002882Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2883Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2884Also for ":w" without a file name.
2885The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002886
2887"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2888Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2891directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2892(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2893
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002894VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2895
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002896input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2897name?
2898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2902(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002903Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2905
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002906gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2907This also fails with --remote.
2908
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002909When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29102008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2911all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2914
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002915When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2916(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2919the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2920
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002921GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2922
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002923Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2924superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2925
2926Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2927character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2928
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002929Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2930Jun 5)
2931
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002932Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29332008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2934Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2935
2936In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2937but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2938Jul 22)
2939
2940There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2941
2942Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2943":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2944somehow? Or use a new function.
2945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002946Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002948Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2949moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2950that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2951
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002952The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2953
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002954When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002955cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2956the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2957
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002958These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2959 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2960 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2961 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2962
2963Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2964partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2965
2966In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2967buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2968reload it then?
2969
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002970For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2971
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002972Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2973only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2974
2975Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2976tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2977doesn't contain other directories.
2978
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002979Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2980Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2981
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002982Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2983 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2984 set background=dark
2985This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2986color is, not reset it.
2987
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002988Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2989start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2990show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2991middle?
2992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002993Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2994
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002995When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2996current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2997the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2998
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002999When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3000Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3001
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3003Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3004
3005Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3006
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003007A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3008Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3009
3010Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3011Dara, 2006 June 21)
3012
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003013Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3014number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3015
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3017the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3018
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003019Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003020
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003021Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3022Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3023
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003024Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030252008 Sep 29)
3026
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003027In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3028check the result of has("patch13").
3029
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003030Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3031restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3032
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003033Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3034and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3035
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003036Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3037put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3038
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003039Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3040resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3041
3042In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3043can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3044
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003045GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3046maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3047doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003048Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3049visible.
3050
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003051When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3052differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003053
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003054The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3055be only one.
3056
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003057Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003058"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3059name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3060Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003061
3062Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3063(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3064
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003065Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3066as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3067
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003068Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
306923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003071":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3072tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3073Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003075When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3076text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3077latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3078
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003079Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3080no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3081
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003082In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3083VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30842007 Oct 16)
3085
3086TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3087Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3088
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003089Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003091When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3092typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3093Sep 3, 11)
3094
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003095":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3096this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3097
3098When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3099Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3100restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3101
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003102Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31032010 Jun 30)
3104
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003105Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3106'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3107(Kartik Agaram)
3108
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003109
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003110Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003111- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3112 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3113- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3114 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3115 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3116- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3117 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3118 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003119- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3120- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003121
3122
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003123More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003124- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3125 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003126- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003127- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3128 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003129- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3130- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3131- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3132 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3133 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003134- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003135- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3136 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3137- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3138 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3139- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3140 21)
3141- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3142 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3143- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3144 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003145- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3146 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003147- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3148 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3149 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3150 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3151 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003152- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003153
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003154Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031559 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3156 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3157 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3158 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3159 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3160 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3161 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3162 (Alan Schmitt)
3163 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003164 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3165 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031669 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003167 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031688 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031697 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3170 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3171 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031728 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003173 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031747 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003175 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3176- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3177 for multi-byte characters.
3178- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3179- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3180 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3181 been given values.
3182 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031837 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3184 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3185- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3186 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3187 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31888 Add functions:
3189 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3190 Update 2004 Sep 10
3191 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3192 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003193 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003194 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3195 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3196 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3197 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3198 (2003 May 13)
3199 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3200 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003201 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3202 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003203 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3204 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3205 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032067 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3207 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032087 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3209 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032108 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3211 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032127 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32138 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3214 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32157 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3216 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032177 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3218- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3219 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3220 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003221- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3222 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3223- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3224
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003225Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3226- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3227 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3228
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003229Quickfix/Location List:
3230- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3231 #2999)
3232- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3233 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3234 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3235 the quickfix buffer?
3236- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3237 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3238- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3239 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3240- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3241 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3242 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3243- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3244 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3245- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3246- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3247 2007 Jan 1)
3248- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3249 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3250- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3251 errors. How do we get the rest?
32528 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3253 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3254 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3255 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32567 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3257 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003258
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003259Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003260- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3261 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032628 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3263 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3264 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3265 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3266 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3267 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032688 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3269 make Vim exit.
32707 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3271 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3272 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32738 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3274 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3275 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32766 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3277 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3278 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32798 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3280 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3281 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3282 names in one buffer???
3283 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3284 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3285 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32867 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3287 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3288 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003289 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3290 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032917 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3292 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32937 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32947 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032957 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3296 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3297 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3298 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32997 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33007 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33017 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3302 to the match with the tag? Option?
33037 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33047 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3305 (Sayre).
33067 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3307 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033087 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3309 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3310 match. Nvi can do it too.
33117 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3312 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3313 line 1\ line 2\\
3314 line 2\ line 3\\
3315 . line4/
33166 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3317 the way the shell is started?
33186 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3319 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3320
3321
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003322GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033239 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033248 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3325 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3326 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033278 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3328 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3329 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033309 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3331 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3332 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3333 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003334- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3335 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3336 blocked for now.
3337
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003338
3339Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003340- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3341 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033428 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3343 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3344 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033456 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3346 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033478 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3348 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3349 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033507 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3351 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3352 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033537 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3354 2004 May 9)
33558 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3356 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3357 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3358 MS-Windows 98?
3359 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3360 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3361 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3362 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033638 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3364 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3365 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3366 doesn't work properly.
33678 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3368 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3369 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33709 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3371 button doesn't give popup menu.
3372 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3373 selection.
3374 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3375 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3376 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33778 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3378 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3379 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3380 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33818 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3382 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3383 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033847 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3385 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003386 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033877 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3388 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033896 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33908 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3391 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3392 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33938 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3394 know which keyboard is being used?
33957 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3396 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3397 area (Koloseike).
33988 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3399 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3400 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3401 the font name).
3402
3403
3404Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034056 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3406 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3407 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3408 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3409 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034109 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3411 required and it's missing?
34128 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3413 wrong.
34149 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3415 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034169 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003417 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3418 flag.
34198 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3420 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3421 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34228 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34236 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3424 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3425 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3426 the tooltips work though...
34277 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3428 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34298 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3430 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3431 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3432
3433
3434Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034359 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3436 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034379 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3438 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3439 through files.
34407 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3441 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34424 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3443 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3444 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3445 problem during a refresh.
34465 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3447 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3448 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3449 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3450 colors as it should.
3451 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3452 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3453
3454
3455Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003456- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034577 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3458 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034598 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3460 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3461 (Phillipps)
3462
3463
3464GUI:
34659 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3466 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34679 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003468 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003469 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34709 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3471 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34728 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3473 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34748 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3475 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3476 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34778 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3478 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3479 of where it is processing the output.
3480 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34818 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3482 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034838 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034848 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3485 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3486 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034878 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034888 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3489 browse().
34908 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3491 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34928 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3493 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034947 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3495 - regexp on/off
3496 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3497 when all buffers/directory is used:
3498 - filter for file name
3499 when directory is used:
3500 - subdirectory on/off
3501 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3503 to avoid problems.
35048 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3505 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3506 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35078 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3508 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3509 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35108 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3511 up. Set erase character somehow?
35128 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3513 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3514 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3515 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35168 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35177 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3518 visible.
35197 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3520 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35217 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3522 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35238 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3524 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35258 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3526 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3527 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3528 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3529- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35304 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3531 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3532 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3533
3534
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003535Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035368 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3537 a good fallback, thus use:
3538 $HOME
3539 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3540 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3541 $USERPROFILE
3542 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3543 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3544 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3545 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035468 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3547 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35488 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3549 Should work like in the GUI version.
35508 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3551 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35528 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3553 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35548 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3555 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3556 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035578 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3558 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3559 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3560
3561
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003562Win32 console:
35639 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3564 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3565 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3566 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3567 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3568 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3569 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3570 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3571 and the file is not saved.
3572 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3573 long name.
35748 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3575 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35767 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3577 besides the console.
35788 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35799 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3580 <C-S-i>?
35819 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3582 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35838 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3584 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003585
3586
3587Amiga:
35888 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3589 sequences.
35909 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3591 backslashes in result.
35928 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3593 all options, using white space separation.
3594
3595
3596Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003597- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035987 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3599 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3600 (Jack)
3601 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036028 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3603 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036048 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36058 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36069 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3607 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036089 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003609
3610
3611"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003612- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3613 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003614- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3615 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003616- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3617 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3618 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3619 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3620 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3621 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3622 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036239 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3624 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036259 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003626 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3627 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036288 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3629 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3630 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003631 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036327 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3633 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36348 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3635 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3636 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036377 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3638 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003639- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3640 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036418 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3642 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3643 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3644 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36457 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3646 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3647 invocations belong together.
36488 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3649 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36508 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3651 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3652 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003653 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036548 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3655 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3656 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036578 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3658 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036597 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3660 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3661 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3662 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036637 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3664 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3665 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36667 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3667 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3668 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36697 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3670 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036717 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3672 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036739 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3674 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3675 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3676 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3677 script can be called.
36788 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3679 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3680 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036818 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3682 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036838 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003684 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3685 configurable?
36868 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036878 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3688 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036898 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3690 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036918 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3692 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036939 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3694 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3695 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036967 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036978 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3698 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3699 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037008 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3701 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003702 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3703 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037048 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3705 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37069 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3707 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3708 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003709 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037107 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3711 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037127 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3713 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3714 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3715 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037168 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003717 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3718 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3719 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3720 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003721 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3722 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003723 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003724 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003725 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3726 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3727 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3728 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3729 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037308 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3731 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37328 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3733 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37348 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3735 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3736 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37378 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3738 'linebreak'.
37398 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3740 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3741 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037429 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3743 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3744 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3745 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37469 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3747 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037489 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37499 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3750 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3751 cause another redraw, etc.
37528 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3753 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37548 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3755 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3756 ":w!!" for that.
3757 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3758 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003759 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037607 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3761 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3762 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3763 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3764 clipboard)
37657 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3766 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3767 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037686 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3769 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3770 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037718 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3772 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37738 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3774 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3775 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37768 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3777 (e.g., ":w").
37788 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3779 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037808 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3781 script in do_cmdline().
37828 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3783 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3784 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3785 changes.
37868 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3787 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37888 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3789 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037908 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3791 to skip catch_signals()?
37929 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3793 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3794 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3795 text?
37968 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3797 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37988 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3799 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38009 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3801 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3802 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3803 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3804 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38057 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3806 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3807 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3808 in the list?
38098 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3810 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3811 instead of on button down.
38128 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38139 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3814 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003815 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3816 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038178 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3818 character is typed.
38198 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3820 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38218 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3822 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38238 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3824 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3825 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3826 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3827 cygwin bash.
38287 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3829 Remember flags for backreferences.
38307 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3831 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38327 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3833 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38348 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3835 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38367 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3837 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038387 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3839 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3840 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38417 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3842 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38438 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3844 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3845 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38467 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3847 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003848
3849
3850I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38519 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3852 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3853 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003854
3855
3856Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003857- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3858 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3859 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003860- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3861 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3862 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3863 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3864 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3865 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003866 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003867- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3868 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003869 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003870 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3871 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3872 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003873- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3874 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3875 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3876 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3877 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3878- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3879 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3880 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3881- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3882 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003883- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003884- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3885 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3886 character gets the highlighting.
3887- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3888 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3889- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3890 (Jennings)
3891- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003892- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003893- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003894 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003895- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3896 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3897 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3898- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3899 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3900 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3901 (Benzinger).
3902- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3903 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3904 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3905- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3906 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3907- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3908 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3909- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3910 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3911 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3912 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3913 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3914 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3915- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3916 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3917 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003918- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3919 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3920 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003921- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3922 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3923 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3924- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3925 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3926- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3927 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003928- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3929 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3930- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3931 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3932 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3933 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3934 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3935- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3936 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3937 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3938- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3939 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3940 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003941- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3942 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 +00003943- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3944 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3945 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3946 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3947 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3948- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3949 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3950
3951--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3952 *extensions-improvements*
3953
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003954Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3955- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3956 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3957 calling a function.
3958 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3959 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003960- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3961 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003962 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003963- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3964 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3965 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3966 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3967 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3968 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003969 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003970- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3971 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3972 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003973- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3974 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039758 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3976 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3977 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3978 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003979- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3980 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003981
3982
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003983Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039848 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3985 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039868 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3987 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039888 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3989 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039908 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039919 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3992 - change to cursor position and curswant
3993 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3994 - how it works for folded lines
3995 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39969 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3997 work too.
39988 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3999 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4000 text.
40018 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40027 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4003 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40047 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4005 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004006 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004007- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4008
4009
4010Help:
4011- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4012 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4013- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4014 to the other matches.
4015- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004016- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4017 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4018 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4019 default contents.
4020- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4021 height for the help window (and other windows).
4022- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4023- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4024- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4025
4026
4027User Friendlier:
40288 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4029 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4030 Briscoe)
40318 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40328 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4033 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4034 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40358 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4036 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4037- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4038 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40409 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4041 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4042 item?).
4043 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040448 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040457 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4046 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4047 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040488 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4049 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4050 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4051 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004052
4053
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004054Tab pages:
40559 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040567 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4057 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040588 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040598 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040607 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040617 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004062 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040638 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4064 tab pages.
40657 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4066
4067
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004068Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004069- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004070 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004071- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4072 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4073 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4074- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4075 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004076- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4077 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4078 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004079- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4080 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4081 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004082- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4083 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004084- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004085 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4086 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040878 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4088 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40898 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4090 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40918 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4092 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004093 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004094 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4095 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4096 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4097 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004098- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4099 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004100- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004101- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4102 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004103- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004104 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004105- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004106 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004107- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4108 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004109- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4110 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4111- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004112 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004113 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4114 in the affix file separately.
4115 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004116 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004117 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4118 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4119 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4120- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4121 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4122 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4123 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4124 Alternative:
4125 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4126 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4127 affix which is required.
4128- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004129 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004130- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4131 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4132 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004133- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4134 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004135- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4136 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4137- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041388 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4139 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4140 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4141 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004142- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4143 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4144 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4145 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041468 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4147 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041488 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41498 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4150 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041517 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41528 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4153 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4154 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4155 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004156
4157
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004158Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041599 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4160 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041618 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004162 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163
4164Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004165 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4166 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041678 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4168 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041698 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4170 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041718 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4172 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4173 user aware of this?
41748 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4175 commands skip over a closed fold.
41768 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41778 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041787 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004179- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4180 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4181 missing line goes unnoticed.
4182 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004183- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4184 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4185 smoother?
4186- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4187 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004188- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4189 file can contain:
4190 args version.c main.c
4191 edit version.c
4192 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004193- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004194- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4195 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4197 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004198- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4199 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004200- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201
4202Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004203- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4204 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4205 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4206 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042079 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4208 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4209 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4210 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042119 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4212 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4213 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4215 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4216 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4217 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4218 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4219 item.
42208 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004221 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4222 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042238 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4224 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042258 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4226 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4227 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042287 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4229 so that the user can fix the problem.
42308 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4231 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042329 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42338 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42358 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042367 Searching and composing characters:
4237 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004238 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4239 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042408 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42418 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42428 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4243 characters.
42448 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42458 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4246 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42477 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4248 'display' option to specify this.
42497 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4250 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4251- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4252 fontselector somehow.
4253- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4254 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4255- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4256 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4257- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4258 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4259 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4260 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4261 if a font exists?
4262- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004263 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004264- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4265 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004266- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4267 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4268 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4269 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004270- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4271 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004272 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004273- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4274 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4275 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4276 But it's very complicated...
4277
4278
4279Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042807 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004281- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4282- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4283 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004284- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4285 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004286- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4287- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4288 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004289- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4290 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004291- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4292 units as for the margins.
4293- Support right-to-left text?
42948 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4295 color.
4296
4297
4298Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042998 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4300 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43018 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4302 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43038 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4304 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043057 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4306 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4308 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4309 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043107 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4311 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4312 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043138 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43149 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4315 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043167 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4317 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043187 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4319 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043208 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4321 change this for each release.
43228 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4323 pattern, but not in the body.
43248 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4325 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4326 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043278 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043288 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004329 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4330 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043318 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4332 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43338 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4334 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004335 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043368 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4337 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4338 used.
43398 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4340 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43418 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4342 re-insert the [] if possible.
43438 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4344 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043458 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4346 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4347 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4348 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4349 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043508 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4351 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43528 Support for deleting syntax items:
4353 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4354 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4355 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43568 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4357 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4358 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43597 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4360 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4361 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43627 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4363 detected.
43648 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004365 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043668 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4367 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043688 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43698 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43707 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4371 ":mkvimrc".
43728 Improve c.vim:
4373 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4374 "c_strict_ansi".
4375 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43768 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4377 current line while in Insert mode.
43788 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4379 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43808 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4381 display position.
43828 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4383 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4384 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43858 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4386 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4387 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043887 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4389 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4390 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4391 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4392 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043937 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4394 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4395 E.g. for this html:
4396 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43987 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4399 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44018 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044027 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4403 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4404 completion?
44058 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4406 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44077 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4408 select one of the sets.
44098 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4410 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4411 2, etc.
44128 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4413 highlighting (for "." command).
44148 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4415 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44168 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44177 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4418 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44196 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4420 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4421- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4422 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4423- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004424- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4425 (for comment blocks).
4426- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4427 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4428 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4429 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4430 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4431 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4432 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4433 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4434 (Campbell)
4435 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4436 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44377 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4438 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44397 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4440 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4441 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44427 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4443 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4444 messages. And external commands?
44458 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4446 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44477 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4448 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4449
4450
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004451Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044528 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4453 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004454 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044557 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4456 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4457 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044588 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4459 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004460- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044618 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4462 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4463 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4464 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4465 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4466 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044677 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4468 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044698 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044708 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4471 can be the plugin name.
4472 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4473 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044747 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4475 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4476 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4477 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4478 autocommand.
4479 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4480 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4481 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4482 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044837 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4484 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044856 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4486 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044878 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004488 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4489 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004490 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4491 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4492 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004493 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4494 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4495 3 2002
4496 Only add this when also implemented for
4497 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4498 be used.
4499 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004500 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4501 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4502 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4503 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4504 File.Open..." argument.
4505 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4506 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4507 with properties instead.
4508 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4509 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4510 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004511 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004512 crypt() encrypt string
4513 decrypt() decrypt string
4514 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4515 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004516 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004517 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004519 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004521 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4522 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4524 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004525 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004526 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4527 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4528 to allow the library to execute a command or
4529 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045307 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4531 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45328 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4533 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045348 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4535 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045368 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045376 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045388 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4539 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045408 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4541 option or environment variable.
45428 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045438 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004544 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045457 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4546 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045478 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4548 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45498 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45508 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4551 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4552 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4553 charwise({expr}).
45547 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4555 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4556 buffer for this?
4557 result = scratch(string, command)
4558 result = apply(string, command)
4559 result = execute(string, command)
4560 "command" would use <> notation.
4561 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45627 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563
4564
4565Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045666 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4567 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4568 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4569 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4570 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4571 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4572 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004573
4574
4575Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045767 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4577 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045787 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4579 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4580 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4581 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045828 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4583 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4584 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4585 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004586 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045878 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45889 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45898 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45907 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4591 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45928 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4593 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4594 when starting up in a color terminal.
45958 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4596 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045978 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4598 function be improved?
45998 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4600 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4601 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4602 this be improved?
46038 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4604 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046057 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4606 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046077 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4608 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46097 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4610 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046117 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4612 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4613 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4614 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4615 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4616 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4617 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046188 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4619 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4620 using strcmp() too often?
46217 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4622 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4623 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4624 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4625 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4626 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46277 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4628 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4629 with an argument that can be messed with.
4630 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4631 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46327 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4633- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46348 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4635 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4636- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4637 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4638- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4639- Do profiling on:
4640 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004641 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4642 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4643 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4644 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4645 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4646 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004647 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046487 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4649 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4650 changed).
4651 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4652 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4653- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4654- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4655 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4656- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4657 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4658 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004659- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4660- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4661 cursor is right of the screen.
46628 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4663 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4664
4665
4666Code size:
46678 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4668- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4669 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46708 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46718 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4672 it.
46737 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4674 left out.
46758 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4676 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046778 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004678
4679
4680Messages:
46818 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4682 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46838 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4684 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46858 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4686 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004687- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4688 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4689- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046908 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4691 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046929 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4693 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4694 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4695 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4696 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046978 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4698 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46998 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4700 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4701 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4702 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4703 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4704 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004705- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004706 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047078 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4708 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4709 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4710 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4711 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4712 error messages, printing text, etc.
47138 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4714 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4715 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4716
4717
4718Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004719- screen_line():
4720 - insert/delete character stuff.
4721 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4722- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4723 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4724- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4725 waiting for a character.
47268 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4727 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4728 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004729
4730Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047318 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047326 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4733- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4734 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4735 windows.
47367 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4737 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4738 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4739- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4740 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4741 (Goldfarb)
4742- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4743 bound windows.
4744- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4745 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004746- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004747- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4748 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4749 of lines but not with a single line).
4750
4751
4752Autoconf:
47538 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47548 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4755 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4756- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4757 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4758- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4759- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4760- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4761
4762
4763Perl interface:
47648 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047657 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47667 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47676 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4768
4769
4770Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047718 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4772 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047736 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4774 :libload internal-name libname
4775 :libunload internal-name
4776 :liblist
4777 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4778 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4779 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47806 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4781
4782
4783Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047849 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4785 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4786 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4787 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4788 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047898 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4790 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4791 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004792 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004793 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047947 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4795 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4796 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047978 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47988 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4799 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048007 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4801 window for each tag.
48027 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48037 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4804 bottom" search message.
48057 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4806 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4807 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004808- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4809- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004810- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4811 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4812 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048137 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4814 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4815 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4816 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48177 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4818 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4819 :tagargs clear
4820 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4821 matching).
48227 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4823 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4824 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4825 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48267 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4827 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48287 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4829 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4830 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004831
4832
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004833Win32 GUI:
48348 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4835 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048367 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4837 (Mike McCollister)
48388 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4839 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4840 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4841 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4842 common part of the path.
48438 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48448 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4845 gettext and menus work.
48468 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4847 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004848 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004849 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48508 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4851 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48528 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4853 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48547 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4855 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48567 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48577 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48587 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4859 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4860 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4861 prompts.
48627 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4863 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4864 the file added into an already running Vim.
48657 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4866 functions to find the window title.
4867
4868
4869GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048707 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48718 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48726 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48738 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4874 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48759 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48767 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48778 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4878 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48798 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4880 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4881 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48828 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4883 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48848 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4885 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4886 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4887 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048887 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48898 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4890 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048917 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4892 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4893 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048948 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48958 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004896 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048978 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48988 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48998 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4900 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4901 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49027 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4903 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4904 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49057 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4906 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49077 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4908 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4909 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4910 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049117 Should support multi-column menus.
4912- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4913 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4914- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49158 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49166 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4917 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49187 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49197 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4920 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4921 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49227 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49238 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4924 name can be chosen free.
49257 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4926 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49276 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4928 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4929 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4930 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4931 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4932 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4933 things.
49347 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4935 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049367 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004937 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004938- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4939 where it was started from?
49407 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4941
4942
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049449 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4945 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004946- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049478 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4948 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4949 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4950 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49518 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4952 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049537 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4954 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4955 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4956 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049577 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049588 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4959 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049608 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4961 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4962 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049637 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4964 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4965 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049668 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4967 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4968 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049698 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4970 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049718 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049726 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4973 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049747 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049757 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004976 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4977 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4978 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049795 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4980 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4981 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49827 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4983 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4984 file.
49858 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4986 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4987 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004988- Add events to autocommands:
4989 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004990 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004991 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4992 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004993 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004994 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004995 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4996 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4997 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4998 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5001 the char.
5002 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5003 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5004 file from CVS).
5005 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5006 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5007 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5008 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5009 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5010 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005011 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5012 changes.
5013 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5014 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005015- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005016 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005017 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005018 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5019 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5020 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5021 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5022 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5023
5024
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005025Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005026- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5027 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005028- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5029 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5030 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5031 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5032 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005033- Ideas from others:
5034 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5035 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5036 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5037 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5038 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5039 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5040 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5041 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5042 Uses Perl for C++.
5043 Uses ctags to find the info:
5044 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5045 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5046 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5047 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5048 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5049 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005050 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005051 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5052- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5053
5054
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005055Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005056- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050577 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5058 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050597 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5060 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5061 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050628 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5063 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50649 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5065 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5066 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050678 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5068 - ignore/match case
5069 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050708 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5071 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5072 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5073 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5074 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5075 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050768 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050777 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5078 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050798 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5080 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5081 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5082 Should work for C++ and Java.
5083 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50847 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50857 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5086 instead of words.
50878 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50888 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5089 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50908 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5091 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005092- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5093 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005094- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5095 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5096 wildcards in the file name)?
5097- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5098- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5099- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5100 be in another file).
5101- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5102- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5103- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5104 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5105- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5106- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5107- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005108- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5109
5110
5111Command line editing:
51127 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5113 line.
51148 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5115 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5116 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5117- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5118 lines wraps to start of line).
5119- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5120 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5121 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5122 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5123 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5124 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5125 cmdwin does now already.
5126 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5127 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5128 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5129 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5130 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5131 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5132 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5133 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5134 Problems:
5135 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5136 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5137 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5138 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5139 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5140 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5141 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5142 character in first column?
5143 - Implementation ideas:
5144 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5145 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5146 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5147 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5148 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5149 Mode.
5150
5151
5152Command line completion:
51538 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51548 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5155 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51568 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5157 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051588 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5159 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051607 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5161 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005162- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5163- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5164 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051658 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5166 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51677 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5168 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5169- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5170 identifiers (Webb).
51718 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5172 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51737 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5174 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5175- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5176 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5177- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5178 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5179 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005180
5181
5182Command line history:
5183- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5184 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5185 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005186 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005187- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5188 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5189
5190
5191Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051929 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5193 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5194 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051958 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5196 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5197 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5198 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5199 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052008 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5201 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5202 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052037 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5204 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005205- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052067 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5207 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5208- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5209 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5210 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5211 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5212 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5213 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5214- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5215 Normal mode.
5216- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5217 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5218 are used.
5219- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5220- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5221- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5222
5223
5224'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052259 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5226 char * veryLongName =
5227 "very long string"
5228 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052298 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052308 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5231 long_type foo =
5232 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052338 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5234 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005235 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052368 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5237 func(
5238 new String[] {
5239 "asdf",
5240 "asdf"
5241 }
5242 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052438 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5244 (Chow Loong Jin)
5245 namespace {
5246 int
5247 func(int arg) {
5248 }
5249 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052506 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5251 func( arg1
5252 , arg2
5253 , arg3
5254 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052557 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005256 func(
5257 int x) // indent like "(4"
5258 {
5259 if (a
5260 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052619 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5262 if (a)
5263 {
5264 if (b)
5265 {
5266 // {
5267 }
5268 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005269 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5270 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5271 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005272- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005273 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52747 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5275- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5276 line).
5277- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5278- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5279 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005280- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5281 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5282- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5283 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5284- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5285- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5286 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52878 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5288 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5289 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5290- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5291- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5292 lines start with "\item".
5293- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5294 /* here is a comment that
5295 is just autoindented, and
5296 nothing else */
5297- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52987 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5299 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5300 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005301 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005302
5303
5304Java:
53058 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5306 Odendahl?
53078 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5308 "[i" commands and friends.
5309- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5310 (Jason)
5311- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5312 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5313
5314
5315'comments':
53168 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5317 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5318 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5319 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005320 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5321 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053227 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5323 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53247 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53256 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5326 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5327 regexp is used.
53288 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5329 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5330
5331
5332Virtual edit:
53338 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053347 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5335
5336
5337Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053388 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053398 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053408 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005341 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053428 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5343 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005344 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5345 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053468 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053478 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5348 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053498 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5350 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5351 the end of the line or before a ".".
53527 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5353 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53547 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5355 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053566 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53575 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5358 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5359 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5360 cursor is on.
5361
5362
5363Select mode:
53648 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5365 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53667 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005367 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053687 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5369 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5370 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5371 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5372 normal_cmd().
5373 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5374 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5375
5376
5377Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053788 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5379 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005380- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5381 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5382 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005383- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5384 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5385 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053868 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005387 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005388 where needed.
53897 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5390 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53917 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5392 of each selected line.
53938 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53948 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5395 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5396 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53978 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5398 Ben Godfrey)
53997 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5400 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54017 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5402 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054037 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005404 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54068 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5407 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54087 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5409 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5410 option!
54117 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5412 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5413 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5414 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5415 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5416 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5417 without changing the column.
54186 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054197 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5420 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054216 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5422 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54236 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054246 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005425 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005426 or other special character.
54276 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5428
5429
5430More advanced repeating commands:
5431- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005432- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005433- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5435 "y." will repeat last yank.
5436 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5437 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5438 and/or pick an older command.
5439- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5440
5441
5442Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054438 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5444 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5445 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54468 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54477 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5448 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054498 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5450 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54518 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054527 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054538 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5454 entering search strings.
54558 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5456 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5457 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054588 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5459 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054607 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054617 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5462 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054636 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5464 abbreviations are to be used.
5465- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5466 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5467 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005468- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5469 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5470 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5471 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5472 Or implicit:
5473 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5475 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5476 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005477- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5478 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5479- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5480 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54816 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5482 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5483 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5484 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005485- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5486 non-replace Insert mode?
5487- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005488- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5489- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5490 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5491- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005492 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005493- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5494 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5495- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5496- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5497 ":freekeys".
5498- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5499
5500
5501Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005502- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5503 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5504- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5505 folds when going to another line.
5506 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5507- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5508 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005509- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5510 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5511 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005512- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5513 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5514 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5515 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055169 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5517 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005518
5519
5520Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055219 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055228 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005523 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005524 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005525 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005526 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055279 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5528 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055298 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5530 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055318 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5532 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5533 Perl does it this way:
5534 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5535 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5536 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5537 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055388 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5539 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5540 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055417 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5542 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055438 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5544 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055457 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005546 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5547 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5548 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055497 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005550 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055517 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5552 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055538 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5554 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55558 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5556 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055577 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005558 example.
55598 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5560 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5561- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5562 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5563 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5564 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055658 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5566 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5567 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55687 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5569 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055707 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5571 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055728 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5573 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055748 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5575 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055768 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5577 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5578 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5579 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005580- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5581 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005582- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5583 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5584- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5585 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5586 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5587 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055888 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5589 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5591 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055928 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5593 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5594 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005595- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5596 i ignore case
5597 I use case
5598 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5599 v use Vi regexp syntax
5600 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5601 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5602 Perl uses these too:
5603 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5604 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5605 o compile only once (Perl only)
5606 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5607 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5608 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5609 following command.
5610 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5611- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5612 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5613 for search string)?
56147 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5615 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5616- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5617 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5618- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5619 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5620- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5621- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005622 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005623 a for the next file in the argument list
5624 f for file in the buffer list
5625 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005626 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5627 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5629 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5630- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056317 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005632 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056337 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5634 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5635 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5636 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56376 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5638 effects.
56397 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5640 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5641 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056427 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005643 Also ":dselect".
5644
5645
5646Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056479 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5648 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5649 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056509 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5651 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056528 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5653 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056548 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5655 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5656 timestamp?
5657 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5658 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005659- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5660 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005661- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5662 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5663 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56648 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5665 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5666 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5667 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56688 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5669 only remember the lines that really changed.
56707 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5671 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5672 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5673 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005674- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5675 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5676- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5677 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5678- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5679 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5680 [-99].
5681- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5682- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005683- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5684 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5685
5686
5687Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056887 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5689 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5690 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5691 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56928 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5693 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56948 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5695 inode too.
56967 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005697 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5698 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056997 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5700 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5701- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5702 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5703- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5704 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57057 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5706 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57077 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5708 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57098 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057107 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5711 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057128 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5713 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5714 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005715
5716
5717Swap (.swp) files:
57188 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5719 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5720 there are short file name problems.
57218 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5722 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57238 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57248 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005725 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005726 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5727 file the same as the actual file?
5728 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057297 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5730 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57317 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005732 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005733 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5734 enough room.
57357 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5736 or /var/preserve.
5737- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5738 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5739- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005740 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005741- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5742 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5743 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5744 cached list of which line is where.
5745
5746
5747Viminfo:
57487 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5749 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5750 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057518 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5752 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5753 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057548 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5755 name. (Schild)
57568 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57578 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057588 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057598 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5760 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5761 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5762 this?
57637 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57647 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5765 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57666 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5767 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5768 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5769- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5770 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5771
5772
5773Modelines:
57748 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5775 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5776 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005777- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5778 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5779 'shiftwidth'.
5780- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5781 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005782- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5783 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5784 modeline setting.
5785- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5786 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5787- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5788 .cpp files.
5789- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5790 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5791- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5792 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5793
5794
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005795Sessions:
57968 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5797 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57987 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5799 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058008 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5801 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058028 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5803 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5804 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058057 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5806 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058077 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005808
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005809
5810Options:
58117 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5812 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058138 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5814 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5815 also be supported.
58168 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5817 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5818 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58197 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005820
5821
5822External commands:
58238 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5824 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58254 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5826 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5827 -f).
58284 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58294 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5830 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58314 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5832
5833
5834Multiple Windows:
58357 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58368 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5837 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58387 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5839 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5840 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058417 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5842 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058437 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5844 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058456 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5846 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005847 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005848 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58497 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5850 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5851 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5852 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5853- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5854 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5855 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5856 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5857
5858
5859Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058608 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058618 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5862 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058638 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 +000058648 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5865 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58668 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5867 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5868 the mark was set.
58697 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5870 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5871 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5872 ":browse marks"?
58736 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058747 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5875 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58767 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5877 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58787 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5879 command).
58807 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5881 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5882 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5883 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58845 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5885 mappings.
58866 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5887 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5888 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5889
5890
5891Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058927 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005893 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005894- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5895 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058968 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058977 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5898 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5899
5900
5901Writing files:
5902- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5903 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5904 shortname conversion.
59058 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59068 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5907 file.
59088 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5909 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5910 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059116 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5912 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59136 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5914 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59156 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5916 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059178 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005918 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59197 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5920 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59217 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5922 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5923 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5924 waiting for a character to be typed).
59258 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5926 line of the window, like "[time]".
5927 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5928 Automatic and/or with a command.
5929
5930
5931Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059328 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5933 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059348 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005935 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5936- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5937- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59388 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5939 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005940- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005941 :s///N substitutes N times.
5942- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5943 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5944 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59457 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5946 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5947 last line column 5.
59485 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5949 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5950 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5951 (Stanislav Sitar)
5952
5953
5954Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059558 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59567 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59578 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5958 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5959 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005960- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5961- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5962 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5963- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5964- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5965
5966
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005967Argument list:
59686 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5969 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5970 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59716 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5972
5973
5974Registers:
59758 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059768 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5977 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5978 for every line.
59796 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5980 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5981 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5982- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5983 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5984- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5985 leader when line wraps?
5986- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5987 line in the range.
5988- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5989 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59908 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5991 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005992
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005993
5994Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059958 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059968 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059977 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59987 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5999
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006000Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060017 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6002 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6003 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6004 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6005 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6006 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6007 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006008 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060097 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6010 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060117 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6012 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060138 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6014 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060157 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6016 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6017 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006018- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006019 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060207 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6021 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60228 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060237 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6024 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60258 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6026 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060276 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060288 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6029 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6030 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6031 in this Vim.
60328 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006033 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060348 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6035 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6036 have it apply to the following command.
60378 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6038 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6039 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6040 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060417 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6042 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060437 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6044 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6045 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6046 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060476 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60488 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60499 Support ACLs on more systems.
60507 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6051 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060527 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6053 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6054 (truncated to fit in the space).
60557 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60568 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60578 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6058 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060597 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006060 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60617 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6062 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060637 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060647 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60657 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060668 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60678 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6068 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6069 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6070 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60718 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060728 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060738 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6074 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6075 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6076 does something like this. (Shah)
60777 Use growarray for replace stack.
60787 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6079 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60803 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060817 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6082 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060837 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6084 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006085- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6086- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6087- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6088- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60897 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6090 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6091- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6092 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006093- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006094- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6095 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6096- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6097 call "play newbeep.au").
6098- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6099 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6100 (Bhatt).
6101- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6102 blockwise registers).
6103- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6104 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6105- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6106 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6107 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6108 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006109- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061107 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6111 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6112- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6113 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6114 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6115 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6116 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061178 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6118 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061198 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6120 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6121 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6122 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6123 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6124- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006125- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061267 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6127 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6128- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6129 not in column 1.
61306 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6131 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61327 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6133- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006134- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006135 :redir #> bufname
6136 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006137- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6138 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006139- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6140 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6141 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61426 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6143 console? (Klaus Hast)
6144- Add :delcr command:
6145 *:delcr*
6146 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6147 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6148 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6149 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6150 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006151 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006152- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6153- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6154 characters from 'isprint'.
6155- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6156- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6157 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6158- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6159 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6160 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6161- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6162- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6163 Nvi).
6164- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6165 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61667 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6167- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6168 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61696 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6170- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6171 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6172 macro).
6173- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6175 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6176- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61778 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006178- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6179- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6180- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6181 if it is not the first or last window.
6182- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6183 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61847 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6185 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6186 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6187- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6188- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006189 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006190 many percent down the windows).
6191- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6192 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6193 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006194 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006195- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6196 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6197- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6198 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6199- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6200- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6201- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6202 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062038 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6204 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6205 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6206 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6207 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006208- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6209 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6210- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006211 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6212- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006213 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6214 (Webb).
6215- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006216 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006217- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6218 hex codes like 0xff).
6219- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6220 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6221 the last TYPED command.
6222- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6223- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6224- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6225 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006226- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062278 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6228 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6229 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006230- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006231 trailing '.'.
6232- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6233 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6234 find_file_in_path().
6235- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6236 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6237- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6238- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6239 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6240- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006241 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006242- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6243 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6244 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6246- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6247- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6248 to the minimal size.
6249- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6250- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6251- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6252- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6253- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006254- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6255 entered)?
6256- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6257 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006258- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006259- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6260- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6261- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6262- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6263- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6264 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006265- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062668 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6267 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6268 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6269 or in octal.
62707 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6271 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006272- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006273 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6274- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6275- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6276 insert line command).
6277- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6278- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6279- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6280- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6281- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6282 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006283- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006284 yet.
6285- Implement 'redraw' option.
6286- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6287 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062887 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6289 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006290 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6291 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062928 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6293 do it.
6294- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6295- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6296 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6297- Add text justification option.
6298- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6299- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6300 off".
6301- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6302- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6303- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006304 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006305- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006306- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006307- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6308 commands.
6309- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6310- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6311- :table command (Webb)
6312- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006313- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6314- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6315- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6316- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6317- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6318 (Demirel).
6319- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6320- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6321 for use in macro's and the like.
6322- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006323 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006324- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006325 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006326- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006327 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006328 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6329- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6330 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006331- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006332 mkopttab to make option table?
6333- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6334 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6335- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6336 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006337- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6339- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6340 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006341- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063428 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6343 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6344 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6345 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6346 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063478 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6348 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6349 (Netherton)
63506 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6351 space after "(", for example.
63525 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6353 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6354 (Servatius Brandt)
6355
6356
6357From Elvis:
6358- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6359- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006360- Search patterns:
6361 \@ match word under cursor.
6362 but do:
6363 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6364 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63658 ":window" command:
6366 :win + next window (up)
6367 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6368 :win - previous window (down)
6369 :win -- idem, wrapping
6370 :win nr to window number "nr"
6371 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63727 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6373 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6374
6375
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006376From xvi:
6377- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6378- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6379
6380
6381From vile:
6382- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6383- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6384 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6385
6386
6387Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006388- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6389 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006390 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006391 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6392 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006393- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6394 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6395- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6396 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6397 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6398 current layout mirrored.
6399- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6400- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6401 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6402- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6403- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6404 font in each top-level window.
6405- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6406- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6407- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6408- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6409 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006410- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6411 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6412- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6413 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64144 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6415 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6416 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6417 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006418 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006419 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6420 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6421- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6422 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6423 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6424
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006425vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006426vim: set fo+=n :