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Shougo Matsushita60c87432024-06-03 22:59:27 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Jun 03
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 Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010041FILETYPE_FILE is defined to the same value in multiple places.
42Only use the one in feature.h. Others too.
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000043
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010044Mapping with modifier is not recognized after a partial mapping. Probably
45because the typeahead was simplified when looking for a matching mapping.
46Need to somehow undo the simplification. #12002
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +000047
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010048Windows scroll when using the autocmd window. #12085
49in restore_snapshot_rec() restore more values from the snapshot, instead of
50calling frame_new_height() and frame_new_width(), especially w_topline and
51w_skipcol.
52
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010053Check places that source "path/*.vim" to not match other extensions, e.g.
54.vim9, on MS-Windows (short file name match, gets expanded to long file name).
55E.g. for startup files, plugins, packs, etc.
56
57When a help item can't be found, then open 'helpfile'. Search for the tag in
58that file and gtive E149 only when not found. Helps for a tiny Vim installed
59without all the help files.
60
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010061SpellCap highlight not updated - PR #12428
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Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010063Virtual text problems:
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010064- If 'list' is on, 'below' virtual text which includes 1 or 2 characters are
65 gone (Issue #12028)
66- Virtual text aligned "above": Wrong indentation when using tabs (Issue
67 #12232)
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010068- Virtual text to the right of the line that isn't visible doesn't cause the
69 'extends' character to show in 'list' mode. #12478
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010070- Virtual text to the right of the line that fits exactly on screen causes
71 that line and all lines below it not to be displayed (Issue #12213)
72- Window screen gets wrong when a virtual text is placed on 'above' or
73 'below' on an empty line (Issue #11959)
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010074- truncated Virtual text below an empty line causes display error #12493
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Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010076When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
77highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
78
79Improve profiling by caching matching functions: PR #12192
80
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010081With 'smoothscroll' set and "lastline" in 'display', moving the cursor to a
82wrapping line that makes the display scroll up may scroll much more than
83needed, thus jump-scrolling. (part of issue 12411)
84
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +010085Implement foreach() PR #12166
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000086
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +000087Errors when running tests with valgrind:
88- test_codestyle.vim: e.g.:
89 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 6: keycode_check.vim: space before tab: Expected 0 but got 7
90 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 10: setup.vim: trailing white space: Expected 0 but got 23
91- test_gui.vim:
92 Found errors in Test_gui_mouse_event():
93
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +010094When every block in if/elseif ends in "throw" or "return" code following after
95"endif" should give an "unreachable code" error.
96
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000097Upcoming larger works:
98- Make spell checking work with recent .dic/.aff files, e.g. French. #4916
99 Make Vim understand the format somehow? Search for "spell" below.
100 Make sure suggestions are speedy, also with composed words (German).
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100101- Make syntax highlighting faster and better.
102 Add a generic mechanism to test a syntax plugin: An input file for the
103 filetype and a screendump of expected result. With a way to specify the
104 setup (global variables) and another dump file from that.
105 Discuss alternatives for using other grammars (treesitter, TextMate).
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000106 - Possibly conversion to Vim syntax rules.
107 - Other mechanism than group and cluster to nest syntax items, to be used
108 for grammars.
109 - Possibly keeping the parsed syntax tree and incremental updates.
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000110 - tree-sitter doesn't handle incorrect syntax (while typing) properly.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100111 - NeoVim uses treesitter, what can we learn from that?
112 - Vscode is asked to switch to treesitter:
113 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140
114 - Vscode uses TextMate. #9087 - Other people don't like it.
115 https://github.com/icedman/vim-textmate
116 - sublime grammar? Hugo mentions it's a moving target #9087
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000117 - Make clear how it relates to LSP.
118 - example plugin: https://github.com/uga-rosa/dps-vsctm.vim
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100119
Bram Moolenaar9b03d3e2022-08-30 20:26:34 +0100120
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700121Further Vim9 improvements:
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700122- Classes and Interfaces. See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100123 - Cannot use class type of itself in the method (Issue #12369)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100124 - Getting member of variable with "any" type should be handled at runtime.
125 Remove temporary solution from #12096 / patch 9.0.1375.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100126 - "obj.Method()" does not always work in a compiled function, assumes "obj"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100127 is a dictionary. #12196 Issue #12024 might be the same problem.
128 Issue #11822: any.Func() can be a dict or an object call, need to handle
129 this at runtime. Also see #12198 for an example.
130 Possibly issue #11981 can be fixed at the same time (has two examples).
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700131 - Forward declaration of a class? E.g. for Clone() function.
132 Email lifepillar 2023 Mar 26
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100133 - When "Meta" is a class, is "const MetaAlias = Meta" allowed? It should
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700134 either work or given an error. Possibly give an error now and implement it
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100135 later (using a typedef). #12006
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000136 - how about lock/unlock?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000137 - For chaining, allow using the class name as type for function return
138 value.
Yegappan Lakshmananceffca62023-09-24 14:36:56 -0700139 - Implement "specifies" interface
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000140 - Implement generics
Yegappan Lakshmanane750f8c2023-08-24 07:07:05 -0700141 - Add "assignable" (class or child)?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000142 - More efficient way for interface member index than iterating over list?
143 - a variant of type() that returns a different type for each class?
144 list<number> and list<string> should also differ.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000145- Promise class, could be used to wait on a popup close callback?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000146- class local to a function
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000147- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200148- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200149- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
150 has(featureName), len(someString)
151- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Yegappan Lakshmanan563e6442023-12-05 08:19:06 -0800152- The use of the literal value "null" and the type specific "null_xxx"
153 values is confusing (#13458, #11770).
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100154
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000155Information missing in terminfo:
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100156- Codes used for focus gained and lost termcodes are hard-coded in
157 set_termname(), not named.
158- t_fe enable focus-event tracking
159- t_fd disable focus-event tracking
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000160- Accept "hyper" and "meta" modifiers (16 and 32) from Kitty like Meta?
161 8 is actually "super".
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000162- t_RV request terminal version string; xterm: "\033[>c"
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000163 change in terminfo for "RV" uses the wrong escape sequence 7 - 14 Jan only
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100164- Codes for <PasteStart> t_PS and <PasteEnd> t_PE; with bracketed paste:
165 t_BE and t_BD.
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000166Modifiers for various keys
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000167- flag to indicate "xterm compatible modifiers" ?
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000168Underline and similar:
169- t_AU - Set underline color: like "AF" and "AB" entries.
170- t_Ce undercurl and underline end
171- t_Cs undercurl (curly underline) mode
172- t_Us double underline mode
173- t_ds dotted underline mode
174- t_Ds dashed underline mode
175- t_Te strikethrough end
176- t_Ts strikethrough mode
177Cursor codes: |termcap-cursor-shape|
178- t_RC request terminal cursor blinking
179- t_RS request terminal cursor style
180- t_VS cursor normally visible (no blink)
181- t_SI start insert mode (bar cursor shape)
182- t_SR start replace mode (underline cursor shape)
183- t_EI end insert or replace mode (block cursor shape)
184- t_SC set cursor color start
185- t_EC set cursor color end
186- t_SH set cursor shape
187State requests:
188- t_RF request terminal foreground color
189- t_RB request terminal background color
190Less important (not needed for regular editing):
191- t_IS set icon text start
192- t_IE set icon text end
193- t_ST save window title to stack
194- t_RT restore window title from stack
195- t_Si save icon text to stack
196- t_Ri restore icon text from stack
197- t_WP set window position (Y, X) in pixels
198- t_GP get window position (Y, X) in pixels
199- t_WS set window size (height, width in cells)
200Vim internal, but there should be a terminfo entry for these:
201- t_8f set foreground color (R, G, B) in printf() format
202- t_8b set background color (R, G, B) in printf() format
203- t_8u set underline color (R, G, B) in printf() format
204Probably Vim internal, not in terminfo:
205- t_TE end of "raw" mode
206- t_TI put terminal into "raw" mode
207- t_RK request terminal keyboard protocol state; sent after |t_TI|
208Already working, not properly documented:
209- t_u7 request cursor position
210
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200211Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100212- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
213 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100214 #10210 Example that shows the need on the issue.
215 Probably need to update all popup windows (they may overlap)
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100216 If the display is scrolled need to redraw everything later.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200217- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
218 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
219 current window.
220 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
221 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200222- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
223 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100224- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200225- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
226 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100227- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
228 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
229 the way. (#5737)
230 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200231- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
232 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100233- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200234- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
235 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100236- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
237 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
238- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200239- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200240 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100241- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
242 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100243- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200244
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100245'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200246- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
247 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
248- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200249- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200250- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
251 isn't one?
252 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
253
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200254Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100255- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200256- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100257- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200258
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200259Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100260- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
261 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
262 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200263- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100264- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
265 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100266- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200267- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200268- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200269 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
270 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100271- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100272- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
273 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100274 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100275 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200276
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200277Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100278- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200279- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200280- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
281 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
282 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100283- GUI: cursor color is not updated when going to Terminal-Job mode. #12328
284- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a key.
285 #12329
286- GUI: cursor color is not updated when switching between tabs with a mouse
287 click. #12330
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200288- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
289 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
290 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
291 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200292- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
293 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100294- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
295 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200296 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
297 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100298 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100299- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100300- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
301 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200302- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
303 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200304- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200305- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
306 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
307- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
308 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200309- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
310 is disabled.
311- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
312- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
313 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200314- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
315 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
316 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100317- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200318- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
319 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
320- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
321 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200322
Bram Moolenaar1b5f03e2023-01-09 20:12:45 +0000323Patch adds showcmd() function #11708
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000324
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100325Cursor is after the end of the line: #12137.
326
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100327Crash when a variable is removed while listing variables (Issue #11435)
328
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100329Autoconf: must use autoconf 2.69, later version generates lots of warnings
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100330- try using autoconf 2.71 and fix all "obsolete" warnings #11322
331
332Problem with Visual highlight when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
333#11272
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100334
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100335'cindent': compound literal indented wrong. Check for " = " before "{"?
336#12491
337
338GUI Scroll test fails on FreeBSD when using Motif. See FIXME in
339Test_scrollbars in src/test_gui.vim
340
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100341Selected index returned by complete_info() does not match the index in the
342list of items. #12230
343
344Support dark mode for MS-Windows: #12282
345
346Remote command escapes single quote with backslash, should be doubling the
347single quote in vim_strsave_escaped_ext() #12202.
348
349PR to add custom and customlist completion types. #12228
350
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100351Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
352
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100353Using :global with a pattern containing \zs doesn't use the line where \zs
354matches but the start of the pattern. #3695 If there is a useful application
355for this, it can be made to work by changing the call to ml_setmarked():
356 ml_setmarked(lnum + regmatch.startpos[0].lnum);
357
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100358After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
359reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000360
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100361When 'delcombine' is set a put after "x" includes the base character and all
362combining characters. (Ron Aaron, 2023 Apr 10)
363
Bram Moolenaar0daafaa2022-09-04 17:45:43 +0100364Add BufDeletePost. #11041
365
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000366Add winid arg to col() and charcol() #11466 (request #11461)
367
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100368'switchbuf' set to "newtab" does not work for ":cfirst" when in the quickfix
369window. #12436
370
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100371When :argument has a non-number argument, use it like :buffer to find the
372argument by name. #12272
373
374Fold unexpectedly closed when inserting fold marker with CTRL-V (Issue #12320)
375
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000376Can we make 'noendofline' and 'endoffile' visible? Should show by default,
377since it's an unusual situation.
378- Show 'noendofline' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos")
379 with an upside down exclamation mark? NonText highlighting.
380- Show 'endoffile' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos") with
381 "CTRL-Z", NonText highlighting.
382- Add 'fillchars' items to change this, default behavior like:
383 noeol:¡
384 eof:CTRL-Z
385
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100386Test property disappears when using CR twice in a row. OK when some text was
387entered. (#11151)
388
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000389Add 'keywordprg' to various ftplugin files:
390https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5566
391
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000392PR #11579 to add visualtext(), return Visually selected text.
393
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100394PR #12032: Support Python 3 stable ABI.
395
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100396PR #11860: Add more info to 'colorcolumn': display a character and highlight
397for each separate entry. Disadvantage: option value gets very complicated
398with multiple entries, e.g. every 8 columns.
399
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000400Stray characters in the shell #11719, caused by requesting a response for:
401- XT key sequences
402- Whether modifyOtherKeys is active
403- Whether kitty keyboard protocol is active
404Can we not request XT key sequences, or reduce them drastically?
405
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000406Issue #10512: Dynamic loading broken with Perl 5.36
407Damien has a patch (2022 Dec 4)
408
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100409Request #11965: Allow several "%=" items in 'statusline', makes it possible
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000410to have text in the center.
411
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000412Add some kind of ":whathappend" command and functions to make visible what the
413last few typed keys and executed commands are. To be used when the user
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000414wonders what went wrong. Could also be used for statistics #12046.
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000415- typed keys - Normal mode command - like what is recorded in a register and
416 displayed by 'showcmd'.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000417- register used - #12063
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000418- executed command lines
419- with more verbosity: what scripts/functions/autocommands were executed
420
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100421NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
422 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
423 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
424
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000425Is there a way to make 'autowriteall' make a clean exit when the xterm is
426closed? (Dennis Nazic says files are preserved, okt 28). Perhaps handle TERM
427like HUP?
428
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000429Better terminal emulator support:
430 > Somehow request the terminfo entry from the terminal itself. The $TERM
431 value then is only relevant for whether this feature is supported or not.
432 Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each entry separately. #6609
433 Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
434 pass it on with modifications.
435 How to get all the text quickly (also over ssh)? Can we use a side channel?
436 > When xterm supports sending an Escape sequence for the Esc key, should
437 have a way to request this state. That could be an XTGETTCAP entry, e.g.
438 "k!". Add "esc_sends_sequence" flag.
439 If we know this state, then do not pretend going out of Insert mode in
440 vgetorpeek(), where kitty_protocol_state is checked.
441 > If a response ends up in a shell command, one way to avoid this is by
442 sending t_RV last and delay starting a shell command until the response
443 has been seen.
444 > Can we use the req_more_codes_from_term() mechanism with more terminals?
445 Should we repeat it after executing a shell command?
446 Can also add this to the 'keyprotocol' option: "mok2+tcap"
447 > In the table of terminal names pointing to the list of termcap entries,
448 add an optional additional one. So that "xterm-kitty" can first load
449 "xterm" and then add "kitty" entries.
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000450
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100451Using "A" and "o" in manually created fold (in empty buffer) does not behave
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000452consistently (James McCoy, #10698)
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100453
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100454In a timer callback, when using ":echo" and then input() the message is
455overwritten. Could use ":echowin" and call redraw_cmd() in get_user_input().
456#11299
457
458Syntax include problem: #11277. Related to Patch 8.2.2761
459
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100460To avoid flicker: add an option that when a screen clear is requested, instead
461of clearing it draws everything and uses "clear to end of line" for every line.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +0100462Resetting 't_ut' already causes this?
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100463
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100464Instead of prefixing "INTERNAL" to internal messages, add a message in iemsg()
465and siemsg() and translate it. Messages only given to them don't need
466translation.
467
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100468When scheme can't be found by configure there is no clear "not found" message:
469 configure:5769: checking MzScheme install prefix
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +0000470 configure:5781: result:
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100471
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100472Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
473
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100474Typed keys invisible after calling interrupt() from a timer. #10631
475
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100476With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100477evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100478
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200479Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
480
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100481":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200482initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
483this.
484
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100485Add a diff() function to use the built-in diff support in a script.
486#12321 Is the returned value in the right form now?
487
488Support translations for plugins: #11637 PR: #12447
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000489- Need a tool like xgettext for Vim script, generates a .pot file.
490 Need the equivalent of _() and N_(), perhaps TR() and TRN().
491- Instructions for how to create .po files and translate.
492- Script or Makefile to generate .mo files.
493- Instructions and perhaps a script to install the .mo files in the right
494 place.
495- Add variant of gettext() that takes a package name.
496
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100497With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
498(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
499need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
500IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
501When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100502The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100503
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100504Version of getchar() that does not move the cursor - #10603 Use a separate
505argument for the new flag.
506
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100507test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200508
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100509Can we add highlighting to ":echowindow"?
510
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000511Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
512spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
513more information.
514
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200515Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
516work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
517Also see #8487 for an example.
518
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200519Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
520(#8179)
521
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000522":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
523
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100524Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
525
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000526Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
527
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000528When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
529for the builtin xterm termcap.
530
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100531Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100532(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100533Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
534interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000535New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100536
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100537When 'spelloptions' is "camel" then zG doesn't work on some words.
538(Gary Johnson, 17 Oct 2022)
539
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100540SpellCap doesn't show below a closed fold. #12420
541
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100542'cdpath' problems:
543- Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
544- Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME.
545 (2006 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
546- Completion of ":cd" doesn't use 'cdpath'. #374.
547
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200548Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
549Also for a block selection. #8558
550
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000551When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
552in a word should be preserved.
553
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200554Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
555to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
556Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
557inconsistent with the documentation.
558
Bram Moolenaar10e8ff92023-06-10 21:40:39 +0100559When 'wildignore' has an entry ending in "/*" this means nothing matching the
560path before it will be added. When encountering a directory check this and if
561there is a match do not scan the directory (possibly speeds up :find a lot).
562#12482
563
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100564globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200565
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100566mksession uses :buffer instead of :edit in one place but not another. #10629
567
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200568Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
569with 'termguicolors'. #1740
570
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200571Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200572
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100573Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
574
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200575Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
576changes.
577
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100578Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
579
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100580When ":redir" is used while already active, the previous one is ended. But
581when redirecting to a local variable (function or script) storing the value
582won't work. At least give an error. Is there a way to make it work?
583#10616
584
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000585Completion for ":runtime" should show valid values, not what's in the current
586directory. (#11447)
587
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100588Add a "description" property to mappings. #12205
589
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200590Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
591This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
592to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
593
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200594Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
595Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
596
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200597Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
598Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
599
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000600Add a v:register_used variable, which has the name of the register used for
601the last command, e.g. put. #12003
602
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200603Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
604time bound navigation, like with undo?
605
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100606For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
607block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
608add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
609
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100610Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
611 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
612 aaa
613 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
614 aaa bbb
615Should also work without any group:
616 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
617 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
618
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200619Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
620of submatches. #8355
621
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200622Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200623Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200624(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
625Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
626- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
627 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
628 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
629- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
630 covered by the above change.
631So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
632same thing.
633Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100634Perhaps also related: #5147
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200635
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200636Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
637Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200638
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200639Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
640Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
641After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
642work.
643
644Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
645autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200646
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000647Using a search pattern containing "\%V" and 'hlsearch' set keeps old matches
648when the Visual area changes. #11694. Do a redraw when starting a Visual
649selection?
650
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200651Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
652Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
653(#8288)
654
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200655Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
656 replace this:
657 let left = GetLeftFunc()
658 let right = GetRightFunc()
659 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
660 by:
661 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200662Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
663
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200664Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
665
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100666":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
667
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200668Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
669(#6539)
670
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100671File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
672
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100673A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100674'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whether "secure"
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100675and/or "sandbox" are set.
676
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200677Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
678character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100679Auto-formatting comments joins a following non-comment line when the comment
680ends in a space. (Adam Levy, 18 Oct 2022)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200681
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100682When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
683(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
684
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200685With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
686'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100687
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200688Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
689which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
690#6127
691
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200692Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
693
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200694When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
695":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
696Might be related to #6088.
697
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200698Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
699(#6919)
700
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200701When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
702Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
703(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
704
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100705Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
706(Paul Jolly, #5656)
707Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100708 Later more requests for what to track.
709 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
710 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
711 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100712BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100713Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100714
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200715Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
716
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200717Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
718
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100719:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
720Dec 19)
721
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200722Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
723Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
724
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100725Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
726May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200727Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
728remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100729Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200730
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100731When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
732the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
733
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200734Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100735Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
736in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200737Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
738(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200739
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200740Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
741that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
742Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100743
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100744Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100745
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200746":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
747find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
748
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200749Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
750
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100751Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
752
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100753"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
754
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200755Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
756Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
757
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100758Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
759
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200760When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
761the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
762
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200763Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
764(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
765
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200766When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
767default one. #4698
768
769When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
770with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
771
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100772Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200773Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100774
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200775Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200776fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
777
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200778Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200779
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200780Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
781- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
782- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100783- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200784
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100785Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200786Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100787
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100788When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
789when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
790gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
791input buffer. (#5302)
792
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200793Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200794
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100795Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
7962007 Feb 18)
797Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
798
799Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
800Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
801
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200802Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
803
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200804Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200805Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
806Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200807
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200808Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
809files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
810Include part of #3242?
811
Bram Moolenaarb7398fe2023-05-14 18:50:25 +0100812Patch for different behavior of text objects with quotes: #11976
813Is this actually better?
814
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200815Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
816Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
817Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
818
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200819Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
820t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000821Also make 'scrollopt' tab-local, remove "hor" only for the current tab page.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200822
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100823Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
824Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
825
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200826'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
827
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100828Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
829
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200830Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
831
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100832When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
833in a long line. #5189
834
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200835The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
836Give a few examples. (#4288)
837
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200838Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200839work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200840
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02008417 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
842 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
843 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200844Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200845
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100846Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
847read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
848be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
849
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200850Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
851
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200852Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
853
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100854Color schemes:
855NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
856a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
857reach out if you want to lend a hand.
858- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
859 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
860- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
861 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200862http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100863- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
864 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
865 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
866 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
867 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
868 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
869 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
870- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
871 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
872 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
873- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
874 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200875
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100876Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
877Mar 5)
878
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200879Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
880on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
881
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200882Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
883in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
884buffer didn't change at all.
885
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100886When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
887But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
888similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
889
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200890C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
891(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
892
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100893Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
894added?
895
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200896Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
897negative. (see #4326)
898
899'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
900`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
901tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
902:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
903
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100904When opening a file, allow for specifying the initial column position:
905 vim +12:5 file.txt line 12 column 5
906 :edit +12:5 file.txt
907Should probably use the column as the character index.
908
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200909This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
910 vim: syn=nosyntax
911
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100912Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
913#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100914Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
915Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
916balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
9172018 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100918
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200919More warnings from static analysis:
920https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200921
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200922Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
923
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200924Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
925internals of the dict structure.
926
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100927nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
928
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200929Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
930change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
931them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
932
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100933When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
934case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
935For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
936
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200937Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
938(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
939expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200940
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200941Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
942 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
943 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
944
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100945Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100946punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100947
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200948Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
949drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
950
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100951When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
952scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
953using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
954
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100955When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
956kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
957when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
958
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100959Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
960(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100961
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100962Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
963highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200964And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
965'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100966
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100967Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, make them empty, keep redirect.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100968Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
969
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200970Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
971Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
972Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
973
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100974Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
975Feedback from someone who uses this?
976
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200977Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
978Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
979values.
980
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100981Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200982- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
983- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
984- omit diff.exe from distribution
985- Can we make this show differences within a line?
986- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200987
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200988Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
989
990When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
991includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
992
993Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200994Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200995
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100996Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
997
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200998Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
999window for the buffer.
1000
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00001001Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01001002- undefined left shift in eval_string(), before hex2nr() (#2250)
1003 Use unsigned for "nr".
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001004
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001005Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
1006Oct 28)
1007
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001008Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
1009Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +01001010Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
1011Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001012
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001013Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1014
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001015Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
1016behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
1017(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
1018
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +02001019Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
1020script or function.
1021
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01001022Using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02001023E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
1024does nothing otherwise?
1025
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +02001026MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
1027If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
1028(wait a little while).
1029CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001030
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001031Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
1032MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
10332017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
1034receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
1035
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +01001036Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001037Jan 15, #2555)
1038
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001039Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
1040Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
1041applying the diff, etc.
1042
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001043User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
1044word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001045
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +01001046Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001047
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001048Implement option_save() and option_restore():
1049option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
1050 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
1051 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
1052 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
1053 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1054 be called when the same window is the current window.
1055 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1056 the local options won't be restored.
1057
1058option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1059 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1060 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1061 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1062 \ 'ignorecase',
1063 \ 'iskeyword',
1064 \ ])
1065 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1066 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1067< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1068 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1069 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1070 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001071 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1072 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1073 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001074 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001075
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001076"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1077directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1078Also see #1689.
1079
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001080No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10812017 Dec 26, #2501)
1082
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001083A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1084
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001085Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1086
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001087A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1088Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1089
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001090ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1091
1092Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1093
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001094Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1095Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1096
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001097Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1098in #846)
1099Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1100
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001101When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1102redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001103
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001104In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1105(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1106
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001107Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1108neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001109
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001110Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1111Nov 21)
1112
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001113When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001114triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1115set_color_count().
1116
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001117When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1118CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1119Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1120always nested.
1121
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001122matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1123
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001124Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1125
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +02001126'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
112720)
1128
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001129MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001130for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1131
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001132Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001133(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001134
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001135Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001136
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001137Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001138
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001139Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1140defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1141Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1142
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001143After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
114413, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001145
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001146When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1147line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1148
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001149Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1150
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001151Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1152behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1153
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001154'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1155
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001156The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1157
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001158Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1159#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1160
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001161X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1162pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1163clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1164Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1165Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1166clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001167Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001168
1169Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1170
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001171Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1172attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001173that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001174
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001175Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1176(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1177
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001178Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1179buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1180Also fixes #2166?
1181
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001182Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1183possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1184
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001185When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1186case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1187
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001188Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1189existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1190Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1191
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001192MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1193Jul 4)
1194
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001195Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1196Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1197This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1198Christian cannot reproduce it.
1199
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001200Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1201wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1202Or is this not an actual problem?
1203
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001204Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1205
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001206Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1207
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001208'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1209#1736)
1210
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001211Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
12128, #1690)
1213
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001214Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1215
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001216assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1217it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1218
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001219Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1220for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001221
1222Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1223(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1224Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1225later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1226Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1227mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001228Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1229mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001230maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001231
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001232Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001233plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1234be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1235
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001236Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1237 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1238 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001239
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001240json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001241What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001242
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001243Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1244
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001245import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1246(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1247
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001248Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1249Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001250Another example in #1309
1251
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001252Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1253#1330)
1254
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001255Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1256
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001257Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1258highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1259
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001260Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1261Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1262
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001263Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1264key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1265 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1266 echo keytrans(xx)
1267 <C-Home>
1268
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001269Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1270(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1271Make a function to check for function-like type?
1272
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001273Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1274 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001275 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001276
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001277Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1278somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1279
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001280The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1281"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1282Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1283
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001284Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1285
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001286Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1287about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001288Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1289
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001290":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001291vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1292
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001293Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001294E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001295Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001296
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001297Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1298Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1299
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001300Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001301Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001302
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001303Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1304(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001305
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001306Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1307
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001308Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1309anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1310
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001311Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001312E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001313
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001314Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1315(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1316
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001317Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1318
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001319On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1320separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1321
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001322Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1323
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001324Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1325
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001326Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001327
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001328sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13294#1038)
1330
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001331sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1332is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1333
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001334+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001335- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001336- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1337 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1338 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001339- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1340 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001341- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1342 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001343- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1344 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1345- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1346 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1347- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001348- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1349 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001350- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1351- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1352 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1353 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1354- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1355- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1356- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1357 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1358 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1359- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1360 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1361- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1362 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1363 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1364
1365Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001366- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1367 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1368 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1369 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001370- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1371 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001372- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1373 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1374- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1375 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1376- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1377 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1378 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1379 LC_CTYPE
1380- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1381 matches everywhere.
1382- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1383 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1384- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1385- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1386 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1387- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001388- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001389 2013 Dec 11)
1390- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1391 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1392- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1393- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1394 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1395- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1396- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1397- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1398- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1399 2015 Feb 7)
1400- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1401 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1402 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1403 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1404 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1405- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1406- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1407- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1408- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1409 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1410 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1411 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1412- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1413 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1414- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1415 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1416 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1417 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1418
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001419Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1420doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1421Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001422Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001423E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1424
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001425cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1426
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001427:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1428
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001429Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1430
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001431ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1432Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001433
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001434Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1435Jul 25, #948)
1436
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001437Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1438names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1439Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1440the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1441
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001442MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1443Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001444
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001445Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1446times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1447
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001448Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1449
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001450We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1451the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1452
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001453Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1454
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001455When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1456emoji_width table has only one entry.
1457
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001458It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1459Reject the value? #710.
1460
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001461When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1462Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1463
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001464Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1465No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001466
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001467Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1468(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001469
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001470Zero-out crypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001471
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001472Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1473https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001474Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001475
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001476Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1477but the reference remains valid.
1478
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001479Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001480interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1481Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1482interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1483result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001484
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001485Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1486
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001487Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1488
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001489Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1490Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1491
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001492exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1493Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1494
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001495Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1496'iskeyword' for syntax.
1497
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001498Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1499It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1500Add configure check?
1501Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1502Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1503Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1504
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001505Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1506Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1507
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001508Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1509Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1510
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001511Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1512(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1513
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001514When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1515restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1516Do not trigger the event?
1517
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001518Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1519With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1520
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001521Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001522
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001523Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1524
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001525Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001526Only remembers one error.
1527
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001528GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001529
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001530Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1531(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001532
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001533Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1534github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001535 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001536Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001537
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001538Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001539
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001540Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001541comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001542
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001543Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1544
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001545MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1546wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1547
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001548Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1549specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1550
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001551Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1552(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1553
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001554Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001555'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1556before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001557
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001558C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1559and also line continuation after #include.
1560I can't recommend it though.
1561
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001562Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1563(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1564
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001565To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1566library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1567
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001568Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
156930)
1570
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001571MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1572(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1573
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001574The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
157524): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001576
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001577":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1578effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1579
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001580":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15819)
1582
1583The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1584wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1585
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001586Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001587Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001588
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001589When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1590the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1591
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001592Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001593slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1594inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1595
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001596ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15972014 Sep 11)
1598
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001599Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1600(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1601
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001602When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1603'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1604
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001605Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1606Work in progress.
1607
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001608Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1609when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1610
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001611Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1612Is this right?
1613
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001614Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1615(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1616Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1617
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001618Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1619Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001620
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001621Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1622Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1623
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001624Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1625
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001626Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001627Would require reading attributes from the original file with listxattr() and
1628getxattr() and adding them to the new file.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001629
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001630Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1631OK to not block marks?
1632
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001633Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1634
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001635When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1636(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1637
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001638Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001639
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001640Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1641(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1642
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001643When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1644any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1645
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001646Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1647(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1648
1649Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1650
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001651Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1652Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1653was already defined.
1654(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1655
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001656Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1657
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001658Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1659(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1660
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001661Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1662(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1663
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001664Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1665
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001666When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1667these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1668window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1669
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001670Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1671should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1672history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1673Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1674
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001675"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1676Jun 8)
1677
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001678Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1679insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1680
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001681No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1682
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001683Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1684(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1685Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1686arguments.
1687
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001688Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1689
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001690Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1691right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001692its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001693
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001694Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1695
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001696This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1697 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1698This neither: (ZyX)
1699 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1700
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001701'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1702Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1703from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001704
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001705Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1706https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001707Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001708Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1709package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001710Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02001711Also see (link seems dead):
1712http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001713User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001714- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1715 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1716 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001717- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1718- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1719 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1720 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1721 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1722 on vim.org.
1723- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1724 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1725- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1726- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1727- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1728- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1729Implementation:
1730- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1731 plugin separate.
1732- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1733 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1734 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1735- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1736 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1737- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1738 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1739 installing.
1740Out of scope:
1741- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1742- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1743 useful).
1744
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001745When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1746menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1747
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001748Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1749(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1750
1751":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1752various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001753
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001754Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001755(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1756
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001757VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1758instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1759
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001760Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001761Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001762Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001763
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001764Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1765
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001766Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001767
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001768Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1769
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017707 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1771 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1772 "lucida_console:h8").
1773Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1774
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001775:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1776
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001777Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1778
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001779Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1780
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001781When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1782(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1783
1784Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001785Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001786
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001787Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1788
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001789The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1790(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1791Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1792
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001793Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1794Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1795reliably?
1796
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001797Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1798(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1799
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001800Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1801(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001802Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1803(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1804try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1805try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001806
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001807Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18082013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001809
1810Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1811
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001812Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1813carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1814
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001815Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1816highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1817
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001818Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001819
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001820Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200182128) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001822
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001823Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1824
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001825- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1826 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1827Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001828
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001829Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001830
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001831Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1832Or use expand('<sid>')?
1833
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001834Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1835
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001836Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1837
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001838b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18397)
1840
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001841Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1842compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1843
1844Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1845Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1846vim.bindeval().
1847
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001848Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18492012 Aug 4)
1850
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001851Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1852(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1853
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001854Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1855But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1856
1857Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1858Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1859Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001860
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001861'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001862
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001863Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001864of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1865
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001866The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1867Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1868But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001869
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001870When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1871is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1872
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001873URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001874- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001875- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1876 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1877
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001878Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001879New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001880
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001881Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1882
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001883Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1884
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001885Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1886Apr 18)
1887
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001888Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1889And one for gui_x11.txt.
1890
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001891":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1892finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1893Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1894
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001895Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1896
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001897Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1898
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001899Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1900they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1901
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001902Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1903
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001904Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1905Nov 20)
1906
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001907Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001908Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001909
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001910`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001911(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1912
1913Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1914
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001915BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1916Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1917
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001918Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1919Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1920
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001921Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1922
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001923On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19242012 Jun 19)
1925
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001926'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1927'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1928Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001929Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001930
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001931Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1932New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1933
1934Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1935Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1936
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001937Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1938Jan 19)
1939
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001940Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1941discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1942meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001943
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001944"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001945Oct 26)
1946
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001947Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1948
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001949Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1950
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001951When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1952(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1953
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001954When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1955then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1956from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1957
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1959":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
196015)
1961
1962Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1963
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001964BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1965cleared. See test64.
1966
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001967On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
196864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1969right type.
1970
1971string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1972(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1973
1974When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1975(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001976When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1977following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1978(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001979
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001980When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1981doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1982
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001983Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1984
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001985When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1986indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1987the help file.
1988
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001989After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1990Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1991
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001992"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001993
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001994Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1995
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001996Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001997
1998Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19992010 Dec 18)
2000
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002001With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2002number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2003Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2004
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002005Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2006Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2007
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020088 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2009Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2010
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002011Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2012one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2013the match scrolls into view.
2014
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020157 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2016Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2017Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2018
20199 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2020 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2021Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2022
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002023Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2024Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2025
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002026In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2027or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2028sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2029
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002030Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2031Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2032
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002033Wish for NetBeans commands:
2034 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2035
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020020367.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2037there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2038do?
2039
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002040New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2041- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002042- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002043 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2044
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002045"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20462011 Feb 27)
2047
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002048Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2049^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2050
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002051When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2052exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20539) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2054
2055g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2056the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2057
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002058Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2059crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2060
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002061Regexp engine performance:
2062- Profiling:
2063 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2064 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2065 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2066 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2067 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2068 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2069- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2070- Performance tests:
2071 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2072 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2073 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2074 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2075 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2076 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2077 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2078 'hlsearch'.
2079 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2080 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2081 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2082 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2083
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002084Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2085Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2086
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002087'beval' option should be global-local.
2088
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002089Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002090
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002091setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002092
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002093With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20942010 Oct 24)
2095
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002096Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2097
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002098When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2099Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2100
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002101":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2102
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002103'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2104
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002105C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2106checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2107Issue 46.
2108
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002109Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2110gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2111
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002112":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2113accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2114
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002115Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2116setwinvar().
2117
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002118Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002119
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002120When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2121instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2122
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002123Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2124Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2125Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002126
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002127Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002128Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2129
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002130CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2131the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002132FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002133
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002134Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2135Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2136
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002137Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2138Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2139
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002140Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2141
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002142Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2143non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144
2145iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2146Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2147or replace with a character and continue?
2148
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002149Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2150Requires configure check for localtime().
2151Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2152
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002153Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2154
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002155Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2156Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2157path.
2158
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002159Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002160Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002161
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002162'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2163
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002164":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2165like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2166
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002167Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2168https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2171
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002172Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2173characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2174
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002175Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2176
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002177Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2178 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2179
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002180For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002181line argument -noregister.
2182
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002183When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2184missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2185
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002186When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2187doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188
2189Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2190(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2191Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2192There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2193Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2194
2195":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2196highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2197to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2198
2199Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2200Probably needs a bit of work.
2201
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002202List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002203Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2204
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002205Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2206
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2208
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002209Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2210
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002211Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2212on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2213
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002214Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22152009 Jul 18)
2216
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002217Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2218window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2219Needs more work.
2220
2221Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2222
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002223When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2224few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2225
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002226'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002227(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2228
2229Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2230J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2231
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002232When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2233for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2234
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002235":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2236because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2237ex_docmd.c.
2238
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002239Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002240Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2241
2242string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2243for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2244
2245Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22482009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2249
2250Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2251
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2253are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2254Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2255Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2256that doesn't have a window.
2257
2258When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2259doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2260
2261getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2262displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2263
2264":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2265
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002266Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2267
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002268Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2269does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2270
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002271Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2272char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2273
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002274This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002276Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2277messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2278es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22792009 Jan 26)
2280
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002281When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2283Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2286a modeline.
2287
2288Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2289Sergey Khorev)
2290
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002291Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2292(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2293
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002294shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002295'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2296Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2297unix-like shell?
2298
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002299Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2300register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2301(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002303Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2304Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2305
2306Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2307make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2310still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2311
2312"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2313(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2314
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002315MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2316doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2317probably causes this.
2318
2319'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023202009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002322Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2323":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2324option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2325is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2328first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002329Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2332anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2333
2334On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2335doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2336Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2337Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2338
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002339When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2340'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2341fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2342the buffer to be unmodified.
2343Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2344another look at it.
2345
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002346c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2347(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002349You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2350error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2351Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2352at the other match for 0xBF.
2353
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002354When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2355argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2356
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002357Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2358backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2359
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002360When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2361line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2362
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002363":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2364Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2365
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002366When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2367either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2368put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2369
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002370Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2371Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2372Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2373Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2374(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2375
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2377
2378ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002379
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002380Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2381(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2382escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2383an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002384This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2385July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002386Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2387work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2388
2389When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
239031)
2391
2392Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2393work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2394Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002395
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002396Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002397multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002398(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2399
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002400Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2401Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2402'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002404Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2405Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2406
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002407Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2408Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2409
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024108 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2411 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2412 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002413
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002414The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002415 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002416 0x2217, star
2417 0x2500, bar
2418 0x26ab, circle
2419
2420Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2421line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2422
2423GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2424Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2425
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002426C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2427with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2428Try to reproduce at work.
2429
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002430Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2431Is there a way to list all the files first?
2432
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002433Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2434(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2435
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002436Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
24371)
2438
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002439":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2440Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2441
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002442Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002443Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html (link seems dead)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002444
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002445When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2446and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2447
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002448Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2449 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2450
2451New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2452
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002453":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2454a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002456Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2457other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2458
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002459The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2460appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2461matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002463When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2464character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2465'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2466(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2467
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002468Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2469Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002470
2471More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2472
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002473Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002474(link seems dead): http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002475
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002476Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2477No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2480terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481
2482Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2485but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2486that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002487
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002488Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2489Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2490
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002491Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2492popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2493size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2494This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2495
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002496When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2497parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2498neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2499particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2500Jun 3)
2501However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2502the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002503
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002504A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2505Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2506
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002507Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2508Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2509
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002510Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2511switch list is noticed:
2512 switch (i)
2513 {
2514 case 1:
2515 foobar:
2516 }
2517
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002518Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2519
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002520Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2521with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2522go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2523moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2524
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002525Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002526GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002527Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2528argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2529(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2530
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002531Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2532(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2533
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
25352007 Feb 8)
2536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002537Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2538set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002539
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002540Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002542Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2543Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02002544New version (link seems dead):
2545http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip
2546(also for other patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547
2548Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2549Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2550
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002552label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2553
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002554Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2555with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2556Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002557
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002558Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002560Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2561Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2562only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2563
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002564Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2565Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002566Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567properly?
2568
2569Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25702007 Jun 21)
2571
2572When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2573Jun 18)
2574
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002575C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2576
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002577":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2578
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002579When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002580error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002581
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002582GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002583use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2584
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002585Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2586if_ruby.c.
2587
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002588":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2589
2590The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2591it in keep_msg?
2592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002594error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002595name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2596
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002597Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2598longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002599
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002600Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2601Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2602Also for ":w" without a file name.
2603The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002604
2605"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2606Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2607
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2609directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2610(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2611
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002612VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2613
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002614input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2615name?
2616
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002617Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2618
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2620(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002621Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002622will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2623
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002624gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2625This also fails with --remote.
2626
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002627When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
26282008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2629all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2630
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002631aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2632
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002633When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2634(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2635
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002636Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2637the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2638
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002639GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2640
2641Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2642Jun 5)
2643
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002644Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
26452008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2646Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2647
2648In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2649but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2650Jul 22)
2651
2652There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2653
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2655moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2656that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2657
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002658The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2659
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002660When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002661cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2662the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2663
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002664These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2665 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2666 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2667 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2668
2669Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2670partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2671
2672In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2673buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2674reload it then?
2675
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2677
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002678Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2679Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2680
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002681Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2682 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2683 set background=dark
2684This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2685color is, not reset it.
2686
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002687Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2688start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2689show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2690middle?
2691
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002692Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2695current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2696the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2697
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002698When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2699Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2700
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2702Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2703
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2705Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2706
2707Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2708Dara, 2006 June 21)
2709
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002710Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2711number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2712
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002713After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2714the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2715
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002718Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010027192008 Sep 29)
2720
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002721In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2722check the result of has("patch13").
2723
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002724Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2725restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2726
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002727Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2728and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2729
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002730Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2731put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002733In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2734can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2735
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002736When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2737differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002739The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2740be only one.
2741
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002742Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002743"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2744name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2745Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002746
2747Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2748(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2749
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2751as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2752
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002753Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
275423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2757tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2758Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2761text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2762latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2763
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002764In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2765VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27662007 Oct 16)
2767
2768TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2769Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2770
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002771Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002773When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2774typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2775Sep 3, 11)
2776
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002777":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2778this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2779
2780When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2781Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2782restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2783
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002784Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2785'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2786(Kartik Agaram)
2787
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002789Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002790- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2791 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2792- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2793 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2794 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2795- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2796 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2797 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002798- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2799- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002800
2801
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002802More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002803- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2804 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2807 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002808- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2809- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2810- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2811 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2812 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002813- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002814- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2815 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2816- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2817 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2818- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2819 21)
2820- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2821 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2822- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2823 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002824- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002825 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002826- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2827 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2828 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2829 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2830 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002831- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002832
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002833Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000028349 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2835 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2836 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2837 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2838 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2839 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2840 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2841 (Alan Schmitt)
2842 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2844 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028459 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002846 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028478 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028487 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2849 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2850 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028518 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002852 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028537 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002854 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2855- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002856 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002857- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2858- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2859 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2860 been given values.
2861 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028627 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2863 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2864- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2865 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2866 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002867 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2868 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2869 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2870 (2003 May 13)
2871 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2872 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2874 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002875 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2876 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2877 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028787 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2879 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028807 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2881 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028828 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002883 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028847 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28858 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2886 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28877 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2888 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028897 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2890- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2891 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2892 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002893- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2894 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2895- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002896- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2897 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2898
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002899
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002900Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2901- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2902 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2903
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002904
2905Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaar71b6d332022-09-10 13:13:14 +01002906- List of common misspellings in English:
2907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
2908 German:
2909 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liste_von_Tippfehlern/F%C3%BCr_Maschinen
2910 There are other languages.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +01002911- [s does not find missing capital at start of the line. #10838
2912 Probably because the dot at the end of the previous line isn't seen.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002913- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2914 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2915 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2916 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2917- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2918- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2919 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2920 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2921 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2922 downloaded.
2923- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2924 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2925- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2926 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2927- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2928 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2929- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2930 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2931 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2932
2933
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002934Quickfix/Location List:
2935- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2936 #2999)
2937- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2938 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2939 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2940 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002941- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2942 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2943- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2944 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2945 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002946- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2947- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2948 2007 Jan 1)
2949- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2950 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2951- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2952 errors. How do we get the rest?
29538 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2954 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2955 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2956 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
29577 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002958 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002959
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002960Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002961- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2962 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029638 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2964 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2965 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2966 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2967 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2968 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029698 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2970 make Vim exit.
29717 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2972 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2973 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29748 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2975 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2976 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29776 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2978 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2979 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29808 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2981 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2982 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2983 names in one buffer???
2984 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2985 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2986 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29877 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2988 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2989 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002990 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2991 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029927 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2993 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29947 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029957 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2996 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2997 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2998 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29997 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
30007 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
30017 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3002 to the match with the tag? Option?
30037 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
30047 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3005 (Sayre).
30067 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3007 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030087 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3009 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3010 match. Nvi can do it too.
30117 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3012 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3013 line 1\ line 2\\
3014 line 2\ line 3\\
3015 . line4/
30166 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3017 the way the shell is started?
30186 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3019 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3020
3021
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003022GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030239 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030248 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3025 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3026 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000030278 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3028 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3029 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030309 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3031 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3032 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3033 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003034- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3035 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3036 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003037- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
3038 #7082)
3039- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
3040 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
3041- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
3042 - Test_setbufvar_options()
3043 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
3044- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
3045 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
3046 the timer expires.
3047- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
3048 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
3049- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
3050 May 5)
3051- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
3052 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
3053- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
3054- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
3055 Aug 9)
3056- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
3057 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
3058- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
3059 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
3060 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
3061 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
3062- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
3063 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003064
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003065
3066Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003067- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3068 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030698 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3070 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003071 Tutorial (link seems dead): http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030726 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3073 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030748 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3075 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3076 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030777 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3078 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3079 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030807 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3081 2004 May 9)
30828 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3083 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3084 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3085 MS-Windows 98?
3086 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3087 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3088 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3089 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030908 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3091 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3092 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30939 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3094 button doesn't give popup menu.
3095 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3096 selection.
3097 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3098 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3099 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
31008 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3101 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3102 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3103 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
31048 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3105 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3106 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031077 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3108 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003109 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031107 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3111 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031126 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
31138 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3114 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3115 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
31168 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3117 know which keyboard is being used?
31187 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3119 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3120 area (Koloseike).
31218 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3122 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3123 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3124 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003125- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
3126 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
3127- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
3128 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003129
3130
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003131Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031326 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3133 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3134 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3135 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3136 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031379 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3138 required and it's missing?
31398 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3140 wrong.
31419 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3142 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010031439 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003144 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3145 flag.
31468 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3147 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3148 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
31498 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
31506 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3151 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3152 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3153 the tooltips work though...
31547 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3155 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
31568 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3157 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3158 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3159
3160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003161Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003162- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031637 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3164 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031658 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3166 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3167 (Phillipps)
3168
3169
3170GUI:
31719 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3172 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31739 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003174 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003175 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31769 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3177 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031788 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3179 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3180 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31818 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3182 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3183 of where it is processing the output.
3184 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31858 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3186 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031878 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031888 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3189 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3190 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031918 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031928 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3193 browse().
31948 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3195 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31968 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3197 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031987 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3199 - regexp on/off
3200 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3201 when all buffers/directory is used:
3202 - filter for file name
3203 when directory is used:
3204 - subdirectory on/off
3205 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032068 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3207 to avoid problems.
32088 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3209 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3210 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
32118 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3212 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3213 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
32148 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3215 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032168 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
32177 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3218 visible.
32197 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3220 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
32217 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3222 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
32238 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3224 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
32258 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3226 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3227 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3228 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3229- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
32304 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3231 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3232 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3233
3234
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003235Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032368 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3237 a good fallback, thus use:
3238 $HOME
3239 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3240 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3241 $USERPROFILE
3242 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3243 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3244 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3245 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032468 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3247 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32488 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3249 Should work like in the GUI version.
32508 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3251 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32528 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3253 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32548 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3255 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3256 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032578 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3258 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3259 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3260
3261
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003262Win32 console:
32639 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3264 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3265 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3266 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3267 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3268 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3269 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3270 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3271 and the file is not saved.
3272 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3273 long name.
32748 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3275 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32767 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3277 besides the console.
32788 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32799 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3280 <C-S-i>?
32819 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3282 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32838 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3284 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003285
3286
3287Amiga:
32888 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3289 sequences.
32909 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3291 backslashes in result.
32928 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3293 all options, using white space separation.
3294
3295
3296Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003297- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032987 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3299 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3300 (Jack)
3301 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033028 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3303 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033048 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
33058 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
33069 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3307 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033089 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003309- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3310- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3311- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3312- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3313 try the Cocoa version.
3314- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3315 changed or the window is resized.
3316- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3317 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3318- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3319 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3320- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003321
3322
3323"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003324- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3325 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033269 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3327 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000033289 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003329 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3330 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033318 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3332 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3333 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003334 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033357 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3336 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
33378 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3338 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3339 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033407 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3341 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003342- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3343 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033448 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3345 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3346 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3347 using the horizontal scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033488 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3349 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33508 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3351 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3352 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003353 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033548 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3355 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3356 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033577 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3358 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3359 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3360 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033617 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3362 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3363 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33647 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3365 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3366 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33677 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3368 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033697 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3370 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033719 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3372 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3373 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3374 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3375 script can be called.
33768 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3377 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3378 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033798 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3380 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033818 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003382 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3383 configurable?
33848 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033858 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3386 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020033878 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3388 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033898 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3390 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033919 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3392 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3393 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033947 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033958 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3396 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3397 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033988 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3399 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003400 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3401 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034028 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3403 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
34049 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3405 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3406 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003407 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034087 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3409 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034107 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3411 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3412 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3413 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034148 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003415 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3416 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3417 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3418 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003419 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3420 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003421 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003422 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003423 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3424 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3425 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3426 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3427 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034288 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3429 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
34308 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3431 in lines that don't extend into the block?
34328 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3433 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3434 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
34358 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3436 'linebreak'.
34378 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3438 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3439 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034409 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3441 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3442 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3443 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34449 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3445 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034469 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34479 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3448 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3449 cause another redraw, etc.
34508 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3451 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34528 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3453 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3454 ":w!!" for that.
3455 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3456 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003457 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034587 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3459 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3460 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3461 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3462 clipboard)
34637 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3464 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3465 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034666 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3467 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3468 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034698 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3470 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34718 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3472 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003473 See https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034748 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3475 (e.g., ":w").
34768 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3477 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034788 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3479 script in do_cmdline().
34808 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3481 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3482 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3483 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034848 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3485 to skip catch_signals()?
34869 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3487 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3488 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3489 text?
34908 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3491 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34928 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3493 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34949 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3495 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3496 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3497 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3498 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34997 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3500 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3501 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3502 in the list?
35038 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3504 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3505 instead of on button down.
35068 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035078 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3508 character is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035098 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3510 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
35118 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3512 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3513 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3514 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3515 cygwin bash.
35167 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3517 Remember flags for backreferences.
35187 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3519 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
35207 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3521 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
35228 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3523 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
35247 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3525 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035267 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3527 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3528 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
35297 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3530 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003531
3532
3533I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
35349 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3535 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3536 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003537
3538
3539Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003540- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3541 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3542 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003543- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3544 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3545 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3546 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3547 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3548 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003549 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003550- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3551 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003552 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003553 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3554 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3555 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003556- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3557 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3558 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3559 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3560 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3561- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3562 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3563 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3564- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3565 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003566- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003567- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3568 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3569 character gets the highlighting.
3570- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3571 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3572- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3573 (Jennings)
3574- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003575- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003576- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003577 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003578- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3579 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3580 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3581- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3582 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3583 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3584 (Benzinger).
3585- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3586 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3587 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3588- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3589 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3590- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3591 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3592- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3593 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3594 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3595 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3596 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3597 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3598- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3599 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3600 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003601- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3602 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3603 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003604- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3605 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3606 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3607- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3608 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3609- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3610 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003611- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3612 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3613 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3614 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3615 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3616- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3617 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3618 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3619- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3620 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3621 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003622- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3623 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 +00003624- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3625 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3626 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3627 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3628 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3629- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3630 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3631
3632--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3633 *extensions-improvements*
3634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003635Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3636- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003637 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003638 calling a function.
3639 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3640 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003641- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3642 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003643 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003644- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3645 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3646 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3647 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3648 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3649 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003650 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003651- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3652 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3653 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003654- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3655 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036568 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3657 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3658 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3659 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003660- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3661 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003662
3663
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003664Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036658 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3666 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036678 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3668 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036698 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3670 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036718 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036729 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3673 - change to cursor position and curswant
3674 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3675 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003676 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3678 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3679 text.
36808 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36817 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3682 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36837 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3684 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003685 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003686- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3687
3688
3689Help:
3690- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3691 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3692- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3693 to the other matches.
3694- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003695- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3696 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003697 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003698 default contents.
3699- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3700 height for the help window (and other windows).
3701- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3702- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3703- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3704
3705
3706User Friendlier:
37078 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3708 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3709 Briscoe)
37108 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
37118 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3712 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3713 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
37148 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3715 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3716- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3717 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003718- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037199 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3720 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3721 item?).
3722 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037238 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000037247 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3725 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3726 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000037278 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3728 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3729 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3730 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003731
3732
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003733Tab pages:
37349 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037357 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3736 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037378 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037388 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037397 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037407 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003741 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037428 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3743 tab pages.
37447 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3745
3746
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003747Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003748- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003749 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003750- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3751 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3752 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3753- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3754 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003755- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3756 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3757 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003758- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3759 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3760 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003761- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003762 used, which is based on Malaga (link seems dead):
3763 http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037648 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3765 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37668 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3767 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37688 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3769 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003770 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003771 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3772 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3773 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3774 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003775- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3776 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003777- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003778- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3779 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003780- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003781 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003782- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003783 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003784- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3785 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003786- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3787 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3788- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003789 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003790 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3791 in the affix file separately.
3792 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003793 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003794 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3795 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3796 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3797- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3798 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3799 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3800 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3801 Alternative:
3802 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3803 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3804 affix which is required.
3805- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003806 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003807- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3808 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3809 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003810- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3811 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003812- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3813 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3814- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038158 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3816 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3817 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3818 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003819- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org), (links seem dead):
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003820 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3821 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3822 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038238 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3824 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038258 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
38268 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3827 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038287 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
38298 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3830 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3831 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3832 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003833
3834
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003835Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038369 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3837 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038388 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003839 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003840
3841Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003842 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3843 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003844- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3845 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3846 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3847 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3848- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3849- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3850 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3851 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3852- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3853 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3854- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3855 2011 Jan 7)
3856- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3857 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3858- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3859 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3860- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3861- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3862 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3863 2010 Jun 9)
3864- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3865 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3866 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3867- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038688 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3869 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020038708 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3871 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038728 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3873 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3874 user aware of this?
38758 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3876 commands skip over a closed fold.
38778 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38788 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038797 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003880- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3881 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3882 missing line goes unnoticed.
3883 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003884- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3885 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3886 smoother?
3887- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3888 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003889- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3890 file can contain:
3891 args version.c main.c
3892 edit version.c
3893 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003894- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003895- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3896 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3898 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003899- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3900 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003901- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003902
3903Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003904- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3905 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3906 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3907 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039089 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3909 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3910 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3911 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020039129 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3913 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3914 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039158 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3916 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3917 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3918 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3919 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3920 item.
39218 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003922 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3923 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039248 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3925 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039268 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3927 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3928 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039297 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3930 so that the user can fix the problem.
39318 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3932 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039339 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020039348 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
39358 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039368 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039377 Searching and composing characters:
3938 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003939 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3940 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039418 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39428 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020039438 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003944 characters.
39458 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39468 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3947 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39487 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3949 'display' option to specify this.
39507 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3951 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3952- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3953 fontselector somehow.
3954- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3955 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3956- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3957 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3958- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3959 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3960 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3961 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3962 if a font exists?
3963- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003964 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003965- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3966 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003967- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003968 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3969 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003970 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003971 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3972 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003973- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3974 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003975 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003976- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02003977 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it, this
3978 is now part of gnulib module unilbrk:
3979 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003980 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003981- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3982 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3983 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003984
3985
3986Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039877 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003988- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3989- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3990 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003991- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3992 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3994- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3995 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003996- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3997 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003998- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3999 units as for the margins.
4000- Support right-to-left text?
40018 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4002 color.
4003
4004
4005Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040068 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4007 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
40088 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4009 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
40108 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4011 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000040127 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4013 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040148 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4015 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4016 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040177 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4018 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4019 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040208 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
40219 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4022 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040237 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4024 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000040257 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4026 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040278 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4028 change this for each release.
40298 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4030 pattern, but not in the body.
40318 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4032 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4033 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040348 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010040358 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004036 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4037 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4039 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40408 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4041 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004042 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040438 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4044 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4045 used.
40468 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4047 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40488 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4049 re-insert the [] if possible.
40508 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4051 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040528 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4053 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4054 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4055 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4056 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040578 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4058 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40598 Support for deleting syntax items:
4060 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4061 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4062 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40638 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4064 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4065 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40667 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4067 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4068 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40697 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4070 detected.
40718 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004072 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4074 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040758 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40768 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40777 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4078 ":mkvimrc".
40798 Improve c.vim:
4080 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4081 "c_strict_ansi".
4082 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40838 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4084 current line while in Insert mode.
40858 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4086 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40878 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4088 display position.
40898 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4090 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4091 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40928 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4093 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4094 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040957 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4096 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4097 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4098 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4099 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041007 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4101 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4102 E.g. for this html:
4103 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041047 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
41057 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4106 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041077 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4108 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4109 completion?
41108 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4111 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
41127 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4113 select one of the sets.
41148 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4115 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4116 2, etc.
41178 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4118 highlighting (for "." command).
41198 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4120 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
41218 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
41227 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4123 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
41246 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4125 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4126- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4127 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4128- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004129- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4130 (for comment blocks).
4131- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4132 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4133 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4134 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4135 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4136 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4137 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4138 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4139 (Campbell)
4140 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4141 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41427 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4143 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41447 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4145 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4146 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41477 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4148 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4149 messages. And external commands?
41508 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4151 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41527 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4153 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01004154- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
4155 start match is empty. #8449
4156- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
4157 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
4158- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
4159- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
4160 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
4161- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
4162 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
4163 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
4164- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
4165 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
4166- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
4167 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
4168 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
4169- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
4170 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
4171 first drawn line. (#8103)
4172- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
4173- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
4174 26)
4175- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
4176 2007 Jul 31)
4177- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
4178- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
4179 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
4180- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
4181 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004182
4183
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004184Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041858 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4186 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004187 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041887 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4189 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4190 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004191- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041927 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4193 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041948 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041958 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4196 can be the plugin name.
4197 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4198 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +010041997 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode, like :def functions.
4200 Possibilities:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004202 has('bytecode-1234')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4203 supports the version. Update the code with a command, can be used in
4204 an autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004206 .vim file. Problem: distribution, non-writable directory, etc.
4207 3. Use a cache directory for each user. Disadvantage: cache lookup may
4208 cost more time than bytecode wins.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042097 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4210 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042116 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4212 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042138 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004214 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4215 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004216 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4217 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4218 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004219 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4220 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4221 3 2002
4222 Only add this when also implemented for
4223 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4224 be used.
4225 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004226 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4227 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4228 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4229 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4230 File.Open..." argument.
4231 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4232 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4233 with properties instead.
4234 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4235 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4236 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004237 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004238 crypt() encrypt string
4239 decrypt() decrypt string
4240 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4241 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004242 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004243 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004244 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004246 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4247 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004248 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4249 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004250 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4252 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4253 to allow the library to execute a command or
4254 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042557 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4256 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42578 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4258 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042598 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4260 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042618 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042626 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042638 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4264 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042658 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4266 option or environment variable.
42678 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042688 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004269 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042707 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4271 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042728 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4273 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42748 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42758 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4276 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4277 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4278 charwise({expr}).
42797 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4280 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4281 buffer for this?
4282 result = scratch(string, command)
4283 result = apply(string, command)
4284 result = execute(string, command)
4285 "command" would use <> notation.
4286 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42877 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004288
4289
4290Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042916 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4292 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4293 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4294 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4295 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4296 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4297 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004298
4299
4300Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043017 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4302 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020043037 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4304 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4305 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4306 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043078 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4308 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4309 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4310 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004311 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043128 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
43139 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
43148 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
43157 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4316 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
43178 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4318 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4319 when starting up in a color terminal.
43208 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4321 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043228 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4323 function be improved?
43248 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4325 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4326 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4327 this be improved?
43288 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4329 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000043307 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4331 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043327 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4333 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
43347 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4335 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043367 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4337 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4338 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4339 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4340 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4341 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4342 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043438 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4344 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4345 using strcmp() too often?
43467 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4347 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4348 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4349 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4350 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4351 the two blocks to the memfile block.
43527 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4353 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4354 with an argument that can be messed with.
4355 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4356 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43577 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4358- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43598 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4360 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4361- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4362 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4363- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4364- Do profiling on:
4365 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004366 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4367 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4368 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4369 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4370 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4371 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004372 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043737 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4374 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4375 changed).
4376 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4377 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4378- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4379- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4380 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4381- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4382 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4383 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004384- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4385- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4386 cursor is right of the screen.
43878 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4388 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4389
4390
4391Code size:
43928 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4393- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4394 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43958 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43968 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4397 it.
43987 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4399 left out.
44008 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4401 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402
4403
4404Messages:
44058 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4406 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
44078 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4408 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
44098 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4410 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004411- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4412 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4413- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
44149 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4415 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4416 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4417 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4418 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044198 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4420 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
44218 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4422 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4423 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4424 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4425 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4426 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004427- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004428 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044298 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4430 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4431 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4432 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4433 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4434 error messages, printing text, etc.
44358 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4436 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4437 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4438
4439
4440Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004441- screen_line():
4442 - insert/delete character stuff.
4443 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4444- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4445 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4446- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4447 waiting for a character.
44488 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4449 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4450 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004451
4452Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044538 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044546 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4455- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4456 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4457 windows.
44587 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4459 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4460 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4461- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4462 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4463 (Goldfarb)
4464- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4465 bound windows.
4466- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4467 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004468- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004469- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4470 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4471 of lines but not with a single line).
4472
4473
4474Autoconf:
44758 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44768 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4477 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4478- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4479 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4480- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4481- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4482- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4483
4484
4485Perl interface:
44868 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44887 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44896 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4490
4491
4492Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044938 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4494 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044956 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4496 :libload internal-name libname
4497 :libunload internal-name
4498 :liblist
4499 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4500 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4501 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
45026 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4503
4504
4505Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000045069 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4507 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4508 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4509 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4510 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045118 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4512 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4513 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004514 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004515 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000045167 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4517 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4518 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045198 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
45208 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4521 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045227 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4523 window for each tag.
45247 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
45257 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4526 bottom" search message.
45277 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4528 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4529 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004530- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4531- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004532- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4533 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4534 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045357 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4536 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4537 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4538 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
45397 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4540 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4541 :tagargs clear
4542 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4543 matching).
45447 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4545 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4546 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4547 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45487 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4549 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45507 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4551 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4552 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004553
4554
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004555Win32 GUI:
45568 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4557 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045588 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4559 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4560 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4561 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4562 common part of the path.
45638 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45648 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4565 gettext and menus work.
45668 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4567 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004568 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004569 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45708 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4571 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45728 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4573 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45747 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4575 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45767 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45777 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45787 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4579 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4580 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4581 prompts.
45827 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4583 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4584 the file added into an already running Vim.
45857 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4586 functions to find the window title.
4587
4588
4589GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045907 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45918 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45926 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45938 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4594 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45959 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45967 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45978 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4598 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45998 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4600 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4601 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
46028 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4603 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
46048 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4605 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4606 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4607 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046087 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
46098 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4610 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046117 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4612 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4613 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046148 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
46158 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004616 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046178 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
46188 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
46198 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4620 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4621 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
46227 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4623 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4624 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
46257 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4626 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
46277 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4628 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4629 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4630 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046317 Should support multi-column menus.
4632- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4633 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4634- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
46358 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
46366 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4637 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
46387 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
46397 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4640 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4641 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
46427 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46438 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4644 name can be chosen free.
46457 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4646 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46476 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4648 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4649 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4650 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4651 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4652 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4653 things.
46547 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4655 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046567 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004657 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4659 where it was started from?
46607 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4661
4662
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004663Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +010046649 When triggering WinNew provide the window ID somehow. #10633
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046659 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4666 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004667- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046688 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4669 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4670 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4671 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46728 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4673 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046747 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4675 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4676 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4677 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046787 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046798 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4680 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046818 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4682 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4683 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046847 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4685 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4686 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046878 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4688 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4689 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046908 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4691 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046928 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046936 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4694 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046957 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046967 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004697 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4698 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4699 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047005 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4701 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4702 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
47037 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4704 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4705 file.
47068 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4707 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4708 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004709- Add events to autocommands:
4710 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004711 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4712 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004713 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004714 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004715 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004717 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4718 the char.
4719 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4720 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4721 file from CVS).
4722 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4723 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4724 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4725 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4726 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4727 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004728 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4729 changes.
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +00004730 QuickfixList - when any entry in the current list changes or another
4731 list is selected
4732 QuickfixPosition - when selecting another entry in the current quickfix
4733 list
4734
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004735- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004736 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004737 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004738 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4739 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4740 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4741 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4742 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004743- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4744 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4745 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4746 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4747 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4748 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4749 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4750 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751
4752
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004753Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004754- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4755 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004756- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4757 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4758 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4759 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4760 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004761- Ideas from others:
4762 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4763 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4764 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4765 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4766 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4767 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4768 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4769 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4770 Uses Perl for C++.
4771 Uses ctags to find the info:
4772 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4773 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4774 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004775 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4776 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Christian Brabandt1c5728e2024-05-11 11:12:40 +02004777 Emacs (link seems dead):
4778 http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004779 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4780- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4781
4782
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004783Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004784- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4785 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4786- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4787 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4788- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4789- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4790 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4791 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4792- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4793 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4794 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4795- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4796 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4797 to force a string value.
4798- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4799 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4800 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004801- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000048027 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4803 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048047 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4805 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4806 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048078 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4808 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
48099 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4810 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4811 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048128 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4813 - ignore/match case
4814 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048158 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4816 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4817 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4818 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4819 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4820 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048218 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048227 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4823 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048248 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4825 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4826 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4827 Should work for C++ and Java.
4828 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
48297 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
48307 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4831 instead of words.
48328 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
48338 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4834 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
48358 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4836 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004837- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4838 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004839- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4840 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4841 wildcards in the file name)?
4842- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4843- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4844- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4845 be in another file).
4846- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4847- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4848- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4849 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4850- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4851- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4852- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004853- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4854
4855
4856Command line editing:
48577 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4858 line.
48598 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4860 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4861 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4862- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4863 lines wraps to start of line).
4864- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4865 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4866 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4867 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4868 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4869 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4870 cmdwin does now already.
4871 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4872 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4873 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4874 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4875 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4876 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4877 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4878 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4879 Problems:
4880 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4881 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4882 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4883 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4884 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4885 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4886 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4887 character in first column?
4888 - Implementation ideas:
4889 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4890 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4891 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4892 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4893 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4894 Mode.
4895
4896
4897Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004898- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4899 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4900- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4901 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049028 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
49038 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4904 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
49058 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4906 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049078 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4908 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049097 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4910 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004911- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4912- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4913 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049148 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4915 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
49167 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4917 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4918- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4919 identifiers (Webb).
49208 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4921 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
49227 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4923 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4924- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4925 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4926- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4927 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4928 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004929- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4930 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4931 2011 Feb 12)
4932- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4933 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4934 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4935- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4936 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4937 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4938 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4939 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4940 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4941 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4942 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4943 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4944- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4945 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4946- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4947 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4948 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
49498 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4950 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
49518 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
49528 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4953- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4954 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4955 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4956- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4957 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004958
4959
4960Command line history:
4961- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4962 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4963 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004964 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004965- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4966 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4967
4968
4969Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000049709 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4971 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4972 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049738 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4974 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4975 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4976 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4977 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049788 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4979 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4980 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049817 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4982 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004983- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049847 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4985 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4986- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4987 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4988 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4989 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4990 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4991 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4992- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4993 Normal mode.
4994- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4995 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4996 are used.
4997- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4998- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4999- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5000
5001
5002'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050039 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5004 char * veryLongName =
5005 "very long string"
5006 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050078 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050088 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5009 long_type foo =
5010 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050118 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5012 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005013 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050148 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5015 func(
5016 new String[] {
5017 "asdf",
5018 "asdf"
5019 }
5020 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050218 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5022 (Chow Loong Jin)
5023 namespace {
5024 int
5025 func(int arg) {
5026 }
5027 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050286 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5029 func( arg1
5030 , arg2
5031 , arg3
5032 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000050337 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005034 func(
5035 int x) // indent like "(4"
5036 {
5037 if (a
5038 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050399 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5040 if (a)
5041 {
5042 if (b)
5043 {
5044 // {
5045 }
5046 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005047 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5048 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5049 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005050- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005051 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
50527 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5053- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5054 line).
5055- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5056- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5057 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5059 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5060- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5061 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5062- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5063- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5064 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50658 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5066 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5067 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5068- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5069- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5070 lines start with "\item".
5071- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5072 /* here is a comment that
5073 is just autoindented, and
5074 nothing else */
5075- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
50767 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5077 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5078 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005079 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005080
5081
5082Java:
50838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5084 Odendahl?
50858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5086 "[i" commands and friends.
5087- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5088 (Jason)
5089- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5090 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5091
5092
5093'comments':
50948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5095 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5096 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5097 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005098 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5099 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051007 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5101 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
51027 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
51036 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5104 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5105 regexp is used.
51068 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5107 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5108
5109
5110Virtual edit:
51118 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5113
5114
5115Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051168 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051178 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051188 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005119 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051208 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005121 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005122 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5123 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020051248 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051258 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5126 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051278 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5128 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5129 the end of the line or before a ".".
51307 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5131 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
51327 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5133 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051346 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
51355 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5136 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5137 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5138 cursor is on.
5139
5140
5141Select mode:
51428 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5143 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
51447 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005145 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051467 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5147 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5148 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5149 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5150 normal_cmd().
5151 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5152 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5153
5154
5155Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051568 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5157 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005158- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5159 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5160 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005161- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5162 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5163 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051648 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005165 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005166 where needed.
51677 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5168 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
51697 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5170 of each selected line.
51718 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
51728 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5173 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5174 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
51758 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5176 Ben Godfrey)
51777 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5178 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
51797 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5180 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051817 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005182 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005183 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
51848 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5185 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
51867 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5187 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5188 option!
51897 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5190 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5191 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5192 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5193 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5194 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5195 without changing the column.
51966 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051977 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5198 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051996 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5200 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
52016 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052026 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005203 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005204 or other special character.
52056 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5206
5207
5208More advanced repeating commands:
5209- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005210- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005211- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005212 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5213 "y." will repeat last yank.
5214 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5215 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5216 and/or pick an older command.
5217- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5218
5219
5220Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052218 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5222 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5223 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
52248 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
52257 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5226 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5228 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
52298 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000052307 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052318 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5232 entering search strings.
52338 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5234 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5235 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052368 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5237 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010052387 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052397 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5240 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052416 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5242 abbreviations are to be used.
5243- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5244 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5245 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005246- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5247 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5248 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5249 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5250 Or implicit:
5251 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005252- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5253 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5254 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005255- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5256 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5257- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5258 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52596 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5260 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5261 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5262 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005263- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5264 non-replace Insert mode?
5265- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005266- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5267- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5268 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5269- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005270 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005271- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5272 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5273- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5274- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5275 ":freekeys".
5276- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5277
5278
5279Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005280- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5281 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5282- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5283 folds when going to another line.
5284 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5285- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5286 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005287- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5288 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5289 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005290- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5291 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5292 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5293 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020052949 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5295 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005296
5297
5298Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052999 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000053008 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005301 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005302 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005303 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005304 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053059 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5306 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053078 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5308 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000053098 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5310 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5311 Perl does it this way:
5312 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5313 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5314 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5315 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053168 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5317 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5318 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000053197 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5320 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000053218 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5322 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053237 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005324 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5325 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5326 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000053277 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005328 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053297 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5330 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053318 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5332 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
53338 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5334 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020053357 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005336 example.
53378 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5338 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5339- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5340 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5341 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5342 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053438 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5344 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5345 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
53467 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5347 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000053487 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5349 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053508 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5351 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053528 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5353 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053548 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5355 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5356 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5357 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005358- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5359 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005360- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5361 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5362- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5363 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5364 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5365 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053668 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5367 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5369 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053708 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5371 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5372 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005373- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5374 i ignore case
5375 I use case
5376 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5377 v use Vi regexp syntax
5378 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5379 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5380 Perl uses these too:
5381 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5382 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5383 o compile only once (Perl only)
5384 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5385 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5386 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5387 following command.
5388 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5389- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5390 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5391 for search string)?
53927 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5393 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5394- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5395 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5396- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5397 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5398- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5399- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005400 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401 a for the next file in the argument list
5402 f for file in the buffer list
5403 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005404 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5405 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005406 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5407 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5408- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054097 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005410 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054117 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5412 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5413 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5414 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
54156 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5416 effects.
54177 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5418 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5419 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000054207 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005422- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5423 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5424- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5425 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5426- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5427 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5428- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5429 2010 Nov 22)
5430- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5431 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5432- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5433 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5434 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005435
5436
5437Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054389 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5439 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5440 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054419 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5442 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020054438 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5444 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054458 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5446 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5447 timestamp?
5448 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5449 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005450- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5451 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005452- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5453 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5454 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
54558 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5456 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5457 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5458 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54598 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5460 only remember the lines that really changed.
54617 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5462 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5463 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5464 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005465- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5466 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5467- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5468 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5469- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5470 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5471 [-99].
5472- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5473- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5475 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005476- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5477 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5478 only copy attributes?
5479- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5480- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5481 causes corruption. (#6631)
5482- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5483 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5484- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5485- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5486 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5487 this?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005488- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5489- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5490 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5491 Also see #1635.
5492- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5493 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005494- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue #346)
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005495 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005496 Check both for some time for backwards compatibility.
5497 Alternatively: create the directory structure under 'undodir'.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005498- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5499 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5500- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5501 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5502- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5503 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5504 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5505- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5506 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507
5508
5509Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055107 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5511 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5512 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5513 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020055148 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55168 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5517 inode too.
55187 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005519 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5520 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055217 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5522 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5523- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5524 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5525- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5526 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55277 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5528 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55297 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5530 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55318 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055327 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5533 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055348 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5535 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5536 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005537- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5538 jumplist and alternate file.
5539- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5540 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5541 unlisted. (#4478)
5542- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5543 error. (#5467)
5544- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5545 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5546- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5547 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5548 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005549
5550
5551Swap (.swp) files:
55528 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5553 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5554 there are short file name problems.
55558 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5556 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55578 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55588 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005559 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005560 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5561 file the same as the actual file?
5562 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055637 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5564 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55657 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005566 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005567 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5568 enough room.
55697 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5570 or /var/preserve.
5571- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5572 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5573- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005574 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005575- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5576 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5577 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5578 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005579- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5580 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5581 it be?
5582- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5583 Then a command can delete it.
5584- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5585 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5586 e.g. after a reboot.
5587- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5588 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5589 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5590- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5591 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5592- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5593 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005594
5595
5596Viminfo:
55977 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5598 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5599 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056008 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5601 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5602 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056038 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5604 name. (Schild)
56058 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56068 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056078 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056088 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5609 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5610 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5611 this?
56127 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56137 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5614 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56156 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5616 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5617 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5618- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5619 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005620- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5621- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5622 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5623 Jun 19, #1781)
5624- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5625 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5626- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5627 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
56288 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5629 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
56308 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5631 check for file marks. This can be slow.
56328 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5633 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5634 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005635
5636
5637Modelines:
56388 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5639 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5640 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005641- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5642 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5643 'shiftwidth'.
5644- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5645 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005646- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5647 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5648 modeline setting.
5649- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5650 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5651- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5652 .cpp files.
5653- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5654 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005655- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005656 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5657
5658
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005659Sessions:
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01005660- Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
5661 'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative
5662 path. (#4450)
5663- Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
5664 window, not other buffers. (#7532)
5665- Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows
5666 with modified buffers:
5667 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
5668 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
5669 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
5670 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
5671- When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted,
5672 the buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) Should add
5673 the buffer in hidden state.
5674- When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are
5675 not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle
5676 deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
5677- Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not
5678 the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
5679- Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
5680 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
5681- Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a
5682 way that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
5683 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) Also: swap files are in
5684 ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
5685- Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until
5686 after loading all files.
5687- Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
5688 (7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056898 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5690 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56917 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5692 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056938 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5694 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056958 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5696 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5697 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056987 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5699 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005700
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005701
5702Options:
57037 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5704 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057058 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005706 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707 also be supported.
57088 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5709 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5710 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57117 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005712
5713
5714External commands:
57158 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5716 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57174 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5718 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5719 -f).
57204 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57214 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5722 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57234 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5724
5725
5726Multiple Windows:
57277 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57288 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5729 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57307 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5731 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5732 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057337 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5734 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057357 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5736 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057376 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5738 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005739 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005740 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57417 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5742 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5743 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5744 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5745- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5746 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5747 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5748 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5749
5750
5751Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057528 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057538 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5754 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057558 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 +000057568 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5757 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57588 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5759 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5760 the mark was set.
57617 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5762 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5763 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5764 ":browse marks"?
57656 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057667 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5767 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57687 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5769 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57707 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5771 command).
57727 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5773 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5774 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5775 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57765 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5777 mappings.
57786 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5779 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5780 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5781
5782
5783Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057847 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005785 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005786- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5787 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057888 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057897 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5790 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5791
5792
5793Writing files:
5794- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5795 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5796 shortname conversion.
57978 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57988 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5799 file.
58008 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5801 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5802 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058036 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5804 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58056 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5806 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58076 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5808 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058098 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58117 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5812 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010058137 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005814 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5815 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5816 waiting for a character to be typed).
58178 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5818 line of the window, like "[time]".
5819 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5820 Automatic and/or with a command.
5821
5822
5823Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058248 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5825 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058268 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005827 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5828- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5829- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58308 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5831 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005832- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833 :s///N substitutes N times.
5834- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5835 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5836 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58377 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5838 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5839 last line column 5.
58405 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5841 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5842 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5843 (Stanislav Sitar)
5844
5845
5846Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058478 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58487 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58498 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5850 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5851 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005852- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5853- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5854 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5855- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5856- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5857
5858
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005859Argument list:
58606 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5861 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5862 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58636 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5864
5865
5866Registers:
58678 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058688 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5869 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5870 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005871- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5872 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5873- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5874 leader when line wraps?
5875- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5876 line in the range.
5877- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5878 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58798 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5880 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005881- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5882 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5883- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5884 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5885 (#6435)
5886- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5887 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5888- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5889 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5890- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5891 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5892- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5893 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
58946 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5895 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5896 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5897 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005898
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005899
5900Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059018 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059028 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059037 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59047 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005905- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5906 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5907
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005908
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059107 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5911 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5912 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5913 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5914 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5915 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5916 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005917 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059187 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5919 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059207 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5921 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059228 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5923 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059247 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5925 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5926 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059277 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5928 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59298 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059307 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5931 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59328 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5933 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059346 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059358 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5936 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5937 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5938 in this Vim.
59398 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005940 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059418 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5942 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5943 have it apply to the following command.
59448 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5945 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5946 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5947 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059487 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5949 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059507 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5951 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5952 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5953 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059546 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59558 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59569 Support ACLs on more systems.
59577 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5958 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059597 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5960 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5961 (truncated to fit in the space).
59627 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59638 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59648 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5965 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059667 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005967 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59687 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5969 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059707 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059717 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59727 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059738 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59748 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5975 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5976 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5977 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59788 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059798 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059808 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5981 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5982 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5983 does something like this. (Shah)
59847 Use growarray for replace stack.
59857 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5986 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59873 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059887 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5989 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059907 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5991 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005992- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5993- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5994- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5995- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59967 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5997 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5998- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5999 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006000- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006001- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6002 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6003- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6004 call "play newbeep.au").
6005- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6006 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6007 (Bhatt).
6008- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6009 blockwise registers).
6010- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6011 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6012- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6013 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6014 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6015 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006016- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060177 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6018 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6019- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6020 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6021 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6022 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6023 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060248 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6025 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060268 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6027 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6028 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6029 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6030 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6031- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006032- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060337 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6034 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6035- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6036 not in column 1.
60376 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6038 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60397 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6040- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006041- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006042 :redir #> bufname
6043 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006044- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6045 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006046- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6047 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6048 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60496 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6050 console? (Klaus Hast)
6051- Add :delcr command:
6052 *:delcr*
6053 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6054 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6055 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6056 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6057 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006058 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006059- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6060- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6061 characters from 'isprint'.
6062- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6063- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6064 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6065- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6066 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6067 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6068- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6069- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6070 Nvi).
6071- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6072 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60737 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6074- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6075 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60766 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6077- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6078 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6079 macro).
6080- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006081- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6082 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6083- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60848 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006085- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6086- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6087- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6088 if it is not the first or last window.
6089- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6090 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60917 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6092 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6093 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6094- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6095- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006096 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097 many percent down the windows).
6098- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6099 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +00006100 line? #754 Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006101 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006102- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6103 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6104- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6105 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6106- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6107- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6108- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6109 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061108 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6111 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6112 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6113 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6114 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6116 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6117- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006118 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6119- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6121 (Webb).
6122- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006123 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006124- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6125 hex codes like 0xff).
6126- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6127 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6128 the last TYPED command.
6129- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6130- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6131- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6132 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006133- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061348 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6135 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6136 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006137- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006138 trailing '.'.
6139- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6140 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6141 find_file_in_path().
6142- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6143 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6144- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6145- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6146 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6147- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006148 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006149- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6150 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6151 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006152- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6153- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6154- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6155 to the minimal size.
6156- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6157- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6158- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6159- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6160- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6162 entered)?
6163- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6164 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006165- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6167- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6168- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6169- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6170- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6171 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006172- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061738 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6174 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6175 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6176 or in octal.
61777 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6178 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006179- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006180 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6181- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6182- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6183 insert line command).
6184- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6185- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6186- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6187- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6188- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6189 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006190- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006191 yet.
6192- Implement 'redraw' option.
6193- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6194 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061957 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6196 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006197 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6198 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061998 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6200 do it.
6201- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6202- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6203 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6204- Add text justification option.
6205- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6206- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6207 off".
6208- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6209- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6210- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006211 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006212- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006213- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006214- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6215 commands.
6216- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6217- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6218- :table command (Webb)
6219- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006220- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6221- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6222- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6223- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6224- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6225 (Demirel).
6226- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6227- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6228 for use in macro's and the like.
6229- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006230 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006231- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006232 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006233- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006234 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006235 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6236- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6237 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006238- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006239 mkopttab to make option table?
6240- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6241 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6242- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6243 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006244- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6246- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6247 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062498 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6250 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6251 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6252 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6253 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062548 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6255 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6256 (Netherton)
62576 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6258 space after "(", for example.
62595 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6260 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6261 (Servatius Brandt)
6262
6263
6264From Elvis:
6265- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6266- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006267- Search patterns:
6268 \@ match word under cursor.
6269 but do:
6270 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6271 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62728 ":window" command:
6273 :win + next window (up)
6274 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6275 :win - previous window (down)
6276 :win -- idem, wrapping
6277 :win nr to window number "nr"
6278 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62797 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6280 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6281
6282
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006283From xvi:
6284- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6285- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6286
6287
6288From vile:
6289- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6290- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6291 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6292
6293
6294Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006295- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6296 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006297 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006298 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6299 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006300- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6301 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6302- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6303 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6304 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6305 current layout mirrored.
6306- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6307- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6308 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6309- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6310- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6311 font in each top-level window.
6312- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6313- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6314- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6315- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6316 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006317- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6318 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6319- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6320 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63214 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6322 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6323 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6324 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006325 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006326 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6327 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6328- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6329 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6330 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6331
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006332vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006333vim: set fo+=n :