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Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Apr 05
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
13
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
33
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +020038- Crash when using cpp syntax file with raw string. (Havard Garnes)
39 Edit "~/tmp/test.cc" and source "~/tmp/cpp.vim".
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010040- NFA regexp doesn't count tab matches correctly. (Urtica Dioica / gaultheria
41 Shallon, 2013 Nov 18)
42- After patch 7.4.100 there is still a difference between NFA and old engine.
43 25 a's with pattern \v^(aa+)\1+$ (Urtica Dioica, 2013 Nov 21) Also: 9 a's
44 with pattern \v^(a{-2,})\1+$ (Nov 23)
45- NFA engine combining character mismatch. (glts, 2013 Aug 27)
46 Remark from Dominique, Aug 27
47- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
48- NFA problem with non-greedy match and branches. (Ingo Karkat, 2013 Nov 29)
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010049- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
50 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010051- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010052 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +010053- Bug with back references. (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010054- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010055
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020056Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
57work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020058
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010059":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
60directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
61
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010062It is possible to define a function with a colon in the name.
63"g:" is not recognized as it should. (zyx, 2014 Mar 16)
64Do some plugins use names with a colon? Disallow it, but ignore the error
65when an option is set?
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020066
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010067":lunmap" cannot be abbrevated to ":lu". (ZyX)
68
69Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010070
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020071Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020072
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010073Using autoconf 2.69 gives a lot of warnings.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010074
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +020075Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote.
76Adjust spell file scripts to duplicate words to support both quotes.
77(Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
78
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020079Problem with 'spellsuggest' file, only works for some words.
80(Cesar Romani, 2013 Aug 20) Depends on file name? (Aug 24)
81Additional remark by glts: the suggested words are marked bad?
82
83Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
84
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +010085Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010086
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010087Syntax file for gnuplot. Existing one is very old. (Andrew Rasmussen, 2014
88Feb 24)
89
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010090Add digraph for Rouble: =P. What's the Unicode?
91
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010092Issue 174: Detect Mason files.
93
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010094No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
95
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010096Phpcomplete.vim update. (Complex, 2014 Jan 15)
97
98PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
99
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200100Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
101Also fixes wrong result from executable().
102Update from Ken Takata, 2014 Jan 10. Newer 2014 Apr 3.
103
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100104Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
105What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
106
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100107This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
108 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
109This neither: (ZyX)
110 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
111
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200112'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
113Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
114from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100115
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100116Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
117Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
118Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
119User view:
120- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
121 the files before deciding to install.
122- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
123- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
124 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
125 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
126 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
127 on vim.org.
128- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
129 there. Can manually update when really needed.
130- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
131- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
132- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
133- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
134Implementation:
135- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
136 plugin separate.
137- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
138 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
139 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
140- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
141 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
142- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
143 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
144 installing.
145Out of scope:
146- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
147- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
148 useful).
149
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200150Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
151normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100152
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200153Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
154(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
155
156":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
157various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100158
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200159VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
160instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
161
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100162Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
163
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100164Patch to add flag to shortmess to avoid giving completion messages.
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100165(Shougo Matsu, 2014 Jan 6, update Jan 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100166
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100167Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
168
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100169Patch to make test 100 work on MS-Windows. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Dec 12)
170
171Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
172
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100173Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100174Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100175
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100176Perl: support for Activestate perl 5.18: Issue 170.
177
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100178Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
179highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100180
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100181Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
182Issue 28.
183
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200184Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100185
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100186Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
187possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12)
188
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100189Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
190
191Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200192
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100193Some quickfix messages appear twice. (Gary Johnson, 2014 Feb 16)
194Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Feb 17.
195
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200196Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
197
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100198Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
199
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200200With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
2012013 Sep 5)
202
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100203Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100204Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100205
206Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
2073. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
208
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200209/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
210
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002117 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
212 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
213 "lucida_console:h8").
214Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
215
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200216:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
217
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200218Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100219names.
220(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100221Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200222
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200223Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200224With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200225
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100226Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
227(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
228
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200229Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
230
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200231Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
232
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100233When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
234(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
235
236Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
237Dec 13.
238
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200239Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
240Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
241
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100242Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
243buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
244
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100245Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
246(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
247
248":sign-jump" uses first window in buffer instead of current window.
249Patch by James McCoy, 2013 Nov 22.
250
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200251GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
252(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
253
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100254Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
255registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
256
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200257Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
258
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200259The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
260(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
261Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
262
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200263The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
264- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
265- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
266
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100267Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
268Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
269reliably?
270
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200271Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
272That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
273Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
27417)
275Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200276Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200277
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200278Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
279Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
280Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
281
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100282Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
283correctly. Issue 91.
284
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100285Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
286(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
287
288The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
289iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
290
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100291Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
292(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
293
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002948 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
295 defined.
296Issue 28.
297
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200298Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
2992013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100300
301Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
302
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200303Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
3045)
305
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200306Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
307carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
308
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200309Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
310highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
311
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100312Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200313
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200314Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200315May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
316May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200317May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200318
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200319Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020032028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200321
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200322Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
323optional. (2013 Jul 12)
324
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200325Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
326
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200327Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
328functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200329Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200330Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200331
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100332Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
333
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200334MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
335the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
336
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100337Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100338
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200339- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
340 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
341Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200342
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200343Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200344
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100345v:register is not directly reset to " after a delete command that specifies a
346register. It is reset after the next command. (Steve Vermeulen, 2013 Mar 16)
347
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100348'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
349
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200350Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
351Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
352
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200353In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
354process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
355a reboot.
356
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200357MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
358(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
Bram Moolenaar9a7224b2012-04-30 15:56:52 +0200359
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100360Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100361Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
362Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100363Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100364
365Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
366cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
367
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100368patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
369
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100370Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
371I can't reproduce it.
372
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100373Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
374not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100375
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200376Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
377Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
378
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200379Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
380Or use expand('<sid>')?
381
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100382Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
383
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100384Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100385
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200386Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
387signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
388
389Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
390
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200391Patch to use directX to draw text on Windows. Adds the 'renderoptions'
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200392option. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jan 25, update 2013 Apr 3, May 14)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200393Fixes this problem:
3948 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
395 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
396 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100397
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200398Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
399insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
400Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
401
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100402Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
403
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100404b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
4057)
406
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200407Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
408compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
409
410Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
411Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
412vim.bindeval().
413
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200414Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
4152012 Aug 4)
416
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100417Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
418(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
419
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100420Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
421But use Gnome instead of GTK?
422
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200423Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
424Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
425
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100426Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
427Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
428Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200429
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200430Crash in autocmd that unloads buffers in a BufUnload event. (Andrew Pimlott,
4312012 Aug 11) Disallow :new when BufUnload is being handled?
432
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200433Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
434
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200435Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
436loading all files.
437
438Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
439line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
440after starting up?
441
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200442Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
443location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
444
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02004458 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
446 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
447
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200448MS-Windows resizing problems:
449- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
450 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
451- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
452 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
453 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100454
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200455'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200456
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200457Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200458of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
459
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200460Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
461
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100462Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200463Also question if examples are correct.
464
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100465It should be possible to make globpath() return a list instead of a string,
466like with glob(). (Greg Novack, 2012 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200467Patch by Adnan Zafar, 2013 Jul 15.
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100468
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200469The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
470Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
471But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200472
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200473Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
474Aug 16)
475
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100476When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
477is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
478
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100479URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100480- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100481- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
482 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
483
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200484Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200485New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200486
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100487When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
488for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
489Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100490
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200491Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
492
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200493Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
49424)
495
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200496Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
497
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100498Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
499
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200500Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
501Apr 18)
502
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200503Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
504And one for gui_x11.txt.
505
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200506- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
507 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
508 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
509 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
510 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200511 Update by Taylor Hedberg, 2013 May 30.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200512 Updated for Vim 7.4 by Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 5.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200513
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100514":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
515finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
516Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
517
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200518Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
519
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100520Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
521
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200522Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
523they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
524
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100525Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
526
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100527Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
528Nov 20)
529
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200530Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200531Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200532
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100533`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100534(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
535
536Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
537
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100538BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
539Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
540
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100541Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
542Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
543
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100544Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
545
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100546Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
547Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
548
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200549Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
550
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200551On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
5522012 Jun 19)
553
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200554'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
555'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
556Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200557Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200558
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200559With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
560(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
561need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
562
563Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
564only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
56521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
566
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200567'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
568highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
569
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100570Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
571New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
572
573Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
574Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
575
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100576Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
577Jan 19)
578
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200579Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
580Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
581Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200582
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200583"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100584Oct 26)
585
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200586Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
587
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200588With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
589register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200590
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200591Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
592
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200593When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
594(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
595
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100596Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
597Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
598
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200599Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
600doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
601Jun 17)
602
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100603When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
604then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
605from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
606
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200607Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
608":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
60915)
610
611Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
612
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200613BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
614cleared. See test64.
615
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200616Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
617
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200618Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200619effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200620Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
621
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200622Patch for variable tabstops.
623
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200624On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
62564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
626right type.
627
628string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
629(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
630
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200631Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
632
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200633When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
634(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200635When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
636following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
637(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200638
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200639When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
640doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
641
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100642Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
643
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006447 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
645Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
646
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200647maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
648mapping, how to restore the script ID?
649
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200650Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
651(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
652
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200653When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
654indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
655the help file.
656
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200657After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
658Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
659
660Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
661
662"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
663
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200664Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
66530)
666
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200667Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
668May 24) Update May 26.
669
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100670Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
671
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200672Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200673
674Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
6752010 Dec 18)
676
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200677With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
678number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
679Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
680
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200681Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
682Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
683
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006848 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
685Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
686
6878 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
688 after typing something.
689Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
690function that resets did_cursorhold.
691Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
692
6937 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
694Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
695Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
696
6979 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
698 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
699Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
700
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200701Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
702Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
703
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200704In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
705or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
706sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
707
708GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
709doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
710
711GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
712
713Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
714Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
715
716Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
717
7187.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
719there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
720do?
721
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200722Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
72322)
724
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100725New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
726- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200727- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100728 the maximum repeat for * and +?
729
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100730"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
7312011 Feb 27)
732
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200733Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
734^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
735
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100736'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
737way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
738
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100739When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
740exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
7419) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
742
743g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
744the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
745
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100746Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
747crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
748
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200749Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
750number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
751
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200752Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
753- \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
754
755Regexp engine performance:
756- Profiling:
757 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
758 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
759 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
760 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
761 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
762 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
763- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
764- Performance tests:
765 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
766 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
767 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
768 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
769 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
770 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
771 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
772 'hlsearch'.
773 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
774 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
775 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
776 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
777
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200778Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
779names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
780Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
781the system encoding (usually utf-8).
782
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100783Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010078426, update 2013 Dec 14)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100785
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200786Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
787Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
788
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200789'beval' option should be global-local.
790
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100791Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200792
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200793setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200794
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02007957 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
796 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
797 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
798
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200799getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
800element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200801Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Again 2013 Aug 22.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200802
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200803With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
8042010 Oct 24)
805
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100806Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
807Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
808
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200809Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
810
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200811When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
812Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
813
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200814":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
815
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200816'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
817
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100818C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
819checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
820Issue 46.
821
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200822Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
823
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100824Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
825gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
826
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200827":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
828accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
829
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200830Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
831setwinvar().
832
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100833Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
834
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100835When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
836(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
837
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200838Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200839(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200840
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200841When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
842instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
843
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100844Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
845
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200846Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
847Winckler, 2011 May 11)
848Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100849
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100850Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
851back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
852
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100853Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200854Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
855
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100856CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
857the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
858FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
859
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200860Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
861Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
862
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200863Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
864Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
865
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100866I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
867Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
868an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100869
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200870Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
871
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100872Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
873non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100874
875iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
876Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
877or replace with a character and continue?
878
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100879Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
880Requires configure check for localtime().
881Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
882
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100883Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
884Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
885
886Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
887
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100888Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
889Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
890path.
891
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100892Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200893Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100894
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200895'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
896
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200897":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
898like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
899
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100900Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200901Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
902
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100903Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
9042010 Nov 5)
905
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100906Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
907Jan 7)
908
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100909Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
910Only with "vim -u NONE".
911
912Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
913
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100914With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
915entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
916Feb 12)
917
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200918Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
919characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
920
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100921Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
922
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200923Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
924 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
925
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200926Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
927
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200928When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
929Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
930
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100931When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
932not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
933string value.
934
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100935Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100937For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
938line argument -noregister.
939
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100940When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
941missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
942
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200943When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
944doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100945
946Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
947(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
948Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
949There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
950Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
951
952":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
953highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
954to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
955
956Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
957Probably needs a bit of work.
958
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100959List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100960Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
961
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200962Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
963
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100964Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
965
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200966Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
967Sep 1)
968
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100969Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
970
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200971Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
972on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
973
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100974Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
9752009 Jul 18)
976
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100977Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
978Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200979Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100980
981Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
982window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
983Needs more work.
984
985Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100987When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
988few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
989
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100990'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100991(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
992
993Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
994J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
995
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200996When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
997for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
998
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200999Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1000
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001001Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1002
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001003When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1004
1005":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1006because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1007ex_docmd.c.
1008
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001009Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001010Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1011
1012string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1013for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1014
1015Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1016
1017'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
101820)
1019
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001020Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
10212009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1022
1023Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1024
1025Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1026SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1027
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001028When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1029indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1030(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1031
1032Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1033are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1034Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1035Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1036that doesn't have a window.
1037
1038When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1039doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1040
1041getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1042displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1043
1044":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1045
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001046There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1047was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1048perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1049
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001050Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1051
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001052Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1053file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1054system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1055
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001056Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1057command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001059Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1060does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1061
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001062opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1063height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001064very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001065
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001066Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1067(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1068
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001069Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001070(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1071
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001072Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1073char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1074
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001075A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001076
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001077Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1078messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1079es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
10802009 Jan 26)
1081
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001082When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001083in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1084Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1085
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001086Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1087a modeline.
1088
1089Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1090Sergey Khorev)
1091
1092Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1093part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001094
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001095netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1096number to be below last visible line.
1097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001098After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1099correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1100
1101Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1102(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1103
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001104shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001105'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1106Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1107unix-like shell?
1108
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001109Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1110register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1111(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1112
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001113Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1114Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1115
1116Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1117make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1118
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001119When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1120still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1121
1122"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1123(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1124
1125Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1126
1127"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1128
1129Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1130that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1131ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1132Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1133
1134Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001135Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001136
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001137MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1138doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1139probably causes this.
1140
1141'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020011422009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001143
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001144Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010011452013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001146
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001147Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1148 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1149 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1150(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1151
1152Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1153":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1154option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1155is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001156
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001157":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1158first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001159
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001160Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1161laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1162Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001163
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001164Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1165anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1166
1167On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1168doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1169Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1170Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1171
1172":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1173
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001174When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1175'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1176fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1177the buffer to be unmodified.
1178Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1179another look at it.
1180
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001181c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1182(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001184You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1185error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1186Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1187at the other match for 0xBF.
1188
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001189When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1190argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1191
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001192Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1193backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1194
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001195When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1196line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1197
1198Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1199position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1200
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001201After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1202(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001203command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001204
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001205":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1206Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1207
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001208Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1209Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1210
1211When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1212either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1213put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1214
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001215Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1216Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1217Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1218Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1219(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1220
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001221Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1222
1223ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001224
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001225Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1226(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1227escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1228an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001229This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1230July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001231Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1232work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1233
1234When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
123531)
1236
1237Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1238work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1239Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001240
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001241Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
12422008 May 14)
1243
1244Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1245Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1246'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1247
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001248Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1249Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1250
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001251Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1252Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1253
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020012548 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1255 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1256 several).
1257 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1258 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1259 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1260Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001262Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1263
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001264The utf class table is missing some entries:
1265 0x2212, minus sign
1266 0x2217, star
1267 0x2500, bar
1268 0x26ab, circle
1269
1270Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1271line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1272
1273GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1274Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001276Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1277try the Cocoa version.
1278
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001279Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1280changed or the window is resized.
1281
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001282GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1283the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1284
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001285Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1286Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001287
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001288Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
12891) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1290
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001291C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1292with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1293Try to reproduce at work.
1294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001295Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1296Is there a way to list all the files first?
1297
1298When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1299result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
130016)
1301
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001302Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1303Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1304
1305Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1306(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1307
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001308Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1309Await response to question to make the register writable.
1310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001311src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1312remark why.
1313
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001314Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
13151)
1316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001317In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1318each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1319
1320try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1321
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001322try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001324":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1325Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001327Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1328
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001329Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1330Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1331
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001332Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1333Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1334Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001335
1336C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1337(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1338
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001339Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
1340":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001341Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001342
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001343When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1344and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1345
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001346Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1347 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1348
1349New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1350
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001351":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1352a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1353
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001354'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1355Likonen, March 19)
1356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001357Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1358other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1359
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001360The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1361appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1362matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1363
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001364When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1365character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1366'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1367(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1368
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001369Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1370Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001371
1372More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1373
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001374Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1375http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1376
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001377Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1378back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1379Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001380
1381Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1382No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1383
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001384Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1385terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001386
1387Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1388
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001389Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1390but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1391that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001392
1393When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1394
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001395Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1396Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1397
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001398Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1399popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1400size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1401This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1402
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001403Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1404a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1405isn't right?
1406
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001407When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1408it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1409
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001410Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1411then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1412files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001413Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1414indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1415":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1416in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1417quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1418Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001419
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001420When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1421parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1422neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1423particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1424Jun 3)
1425However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1426the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001427
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001428A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1429Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001431Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1432Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1433
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001434Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1435switch list is noticed:
1436 switch (i)
1437 {
1438 case 1:
1439 foobar:
1440 }
1441
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001442Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1443
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001444Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1445with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1446go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1447moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1448
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001449Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001450Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010014518 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1452 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1453 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001454Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001455
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001456Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
145764-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1458
1459Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1460Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1461Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1462argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1463(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1464
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001465Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1466(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1467
1468Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1469makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1470.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1471 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1472
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001473Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
14742007 Feb 8)
1475
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001476Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1477set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001478
1479Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1480
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001481Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1482
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001483Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1484Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1485New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1486patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1487
1488Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1489Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1490
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001491Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1492
1493Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
14942007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001495Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001496
1497Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001498label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001500Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1501with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1502Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001503
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001504Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1505pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1506
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001507Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001509Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1510Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1511only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1512
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001513Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1514Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001515Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001516properly?
1517
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001518Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001519Patches: 2013 Nov 19
15201: Add -e: little endian hexdump
15212: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
15223: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001523
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001524Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
15252007 Jun 21)
1526
1527When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1528Jun 18)
1529
1530If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1531
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001532Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1533windows. (Adam George)
1534
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001535F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1536modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1537K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001538
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001539UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1540to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001542In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1543the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1544
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001545C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001547":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1548
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001549When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001550error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001551
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001552Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1553use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001555Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1556if_ruby.c.
1557
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001558":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1559
1560The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1561it in keep_msg?
1562
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001563Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001564error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001565name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1566
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001567Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1568longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001569
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001570Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1571Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1572Also for ":w" without a file name.
1573The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001574
1575"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1576Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1577
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001578VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1579directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1580(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001582VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1583
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001584input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1585name?
1586
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001587Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1588
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001589When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1590(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1591Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1592will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1593
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001594gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1595This also fails with --remote.
1596
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001597When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
15982008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1599all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001601aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001603When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1604(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1605
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001606Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1607the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001609GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001611Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1612superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1613
1614Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1615character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1616
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001617Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1618Jun 5)
1619
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001620Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
16212008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1622Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1623
1624In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1625but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1626Jul 22)
1627
1628There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1629
1630Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1631":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1632somehow? Or use a new function.
1633
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001634Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1635
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001636Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1637moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1638that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001640The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1641
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001642When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001643cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1644the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1645
1646Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1647has been created.
1648
1649Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1650shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1651fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1652background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1653A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001654
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001655These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1656 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1657 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1658 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1659
1660Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1661partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1662
1663In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1664buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1665reload it then?
1666
1667New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1668previous version.
1669
1670For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1671
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001672Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1673only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1674
1675Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1676tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1677doesn't contain other directories.
1678
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001679Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1680Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1681
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001682Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1683 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1684 set background=dark
1685This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1686color is, not reset it.
1687
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001688Linux distributions:
1689- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1690 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1691 xfree-xterm".
1692- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1693
1694Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1695start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1696show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1697middle?
1698
1699When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001700(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001701connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1702dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1703
1704Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1705
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001706When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1707current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1708the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1709
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001710When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1711Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1712
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001713Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1714 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1715 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1716 - getting colors in xterm
1717 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1718
1719Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1720Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1721
1722Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1723
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001724A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1725Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1726
1727Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1728Dara, 2006 June 21)
1729
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001730Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1731number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1732
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001733After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1734the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001736Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001737
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001738Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1739copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1740error and stop using the connection to the server.
1741
1742Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1743Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1744
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001745Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010017462008 Sep 29)
1747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001748In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1749check the result of has("patch13").
1750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001751Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1752restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1753
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001754Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1755and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001757Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1758put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1759
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001760Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1761resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1762
1763In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1764can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001766GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1767maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1768doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001769Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1770visible.
1771
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001772When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1773differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001775The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1776be only one.
1777
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001778"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1779script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001781It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1782the function name before resolving it to a number?
1783 let d = {}
1784 fun! d.foo()
1785 echo "here"
1786 endfun
1787 call d.foo(9)
1788
1789Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1790only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001791Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1792used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1793
1794Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1795output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1796Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1797
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001798Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001799"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1800name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1801Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001802
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001803printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1804perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001806Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1807(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1808
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001809Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1810as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1811
1812Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1813Jan 1)
1814
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001815Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
181623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001817
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001818":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1819tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1820Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001821
1822xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1823buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1824Xterm 224 supports it!
1825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001826When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1827text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1828latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1829
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001830Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1831
1832Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1833no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1834
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001835In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1836VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
18372007 Oct 16)
1838
1839TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1840Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1841
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001842Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001843
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001844When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1845typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1846Sep 3, 11)
1847
1848When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1849respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1850the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1851what happens for the GUI.
1852
1853X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1854pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1855clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1856Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1857Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1858clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1859
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001860":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1861this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1862
1863When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1864Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1865restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1866
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001867Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
18682010 Jun 30)
1869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001870
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001871At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001872- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001873- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1874 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001875
1876
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001877More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001878- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1879 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001880- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1881- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1882 21)
1883- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1884 patch May 10)
1885- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1886 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1887- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1888 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1889- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1890- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1891- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1892 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1893 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001894- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001895- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1896 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1897- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1898 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1899- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1900 21)
1901- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1902 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1903- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1904 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001905- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1906 Sep 13)
1907- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001908 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001909- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1910 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1911 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1912 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1913 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001914- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001915
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001916Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000019179 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1918 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1919 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1920 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1921 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1922 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1923 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1924 (Alan Schmitt)
1925 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001926 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1927 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000019289 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001929 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000019308 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019318 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001932 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019337 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1934 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1935 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019368 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001937 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020019387 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001939 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1940- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1941 for multi-byte characters.
1942- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1943- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1944 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1945 been given values.
1946 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
19478 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001948 with an ESC sequence.
1949 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1950 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1951 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019527 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1953 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1954- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1955 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1956 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
19578 Add functions:
1958 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1959 Update 2004 Sep 10
1960 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1961 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001962 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001963 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001964 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1965 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001966 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1967 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1968 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1969 (2003 May 13)
1970 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1971 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001972 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1973 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001974 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1975 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1976 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019777 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1978 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1979- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1980 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
19817 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1982 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000019838 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1984 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019857 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
19868 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1987 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
19887 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1989 Kotchan has a patch for it)
19908 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1991 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1992 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
19937 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1994- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1995 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1996 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001997- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1998 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1999- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2000
2001
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002002Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002003- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2004 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020058 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2006 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2007 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2008 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2009 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2010 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020118 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2012 make Vim exit.
20137 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2014 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2015 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
20168 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2017 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2018 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
20196 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2020 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2021 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
20228 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2023 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2024 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2025 names in one buffer???
2026 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2027 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2028 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
20297 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2030 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2031 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002032 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2033 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020347 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2035 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
20367 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
20377 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
20387 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2039 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
20407 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2041 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2042 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2043 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
20447 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
20457 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
20467 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2047 to the match with the tag? Option?
20487 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
20497 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2050 (Sayre).
20517 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2052 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020537 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2054 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2055 match. Nvi can do it too.
20567 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2057 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2058 line 1\ line 2\\
2059 line 2\ line 3\\
2060 . line4/
20616 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2062 the way the shell is started?
20636 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2064 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2065
2066
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002067GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020689 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020698 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2070 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2071 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000020728 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2073 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2074 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020759 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2076 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2077 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2078 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002079- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2080 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2081 blocked for now.
2082
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002083
2084Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002085- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2086 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020878 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2088 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
20898 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2090 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2091 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
20928 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2093 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020946 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2095 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000020968 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2097 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2098 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020997 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2100 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2101 to use an opaque background in most places?
21028 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2103 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2104 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021057 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2106 2004 May 9)
21078 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2108 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2109 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2110 MS-Windows 98?
2111 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2112 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2113 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2114 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021158 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2116 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2117 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2118 doesn't work properly.
21198 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2120 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2121 appears in the right position. (Webb)
21229 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2123 button doesn't give popup menu.
2124 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2125 selection.
2126 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2127 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2128 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
21298 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2130 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2131 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2132 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
21338 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2134 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2135 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021367 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2137 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2138 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
21397 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2140 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002141 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021427 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2143 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021446 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
21458 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2146 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2147 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
21488 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2149 know which keyboard is being used?
21507 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2151 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2152 area (Koloseike).
21538 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2154 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2155 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2156 the font name).
2157
2158
2159Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021606 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2161 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2162 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2163 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2164 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021659 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2166 required and it's missing?
21678 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2168 wrong.
21699 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2170 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021719 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002172 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2173 flag.
21748 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2175 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2176 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
21778 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
21786 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2179 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2180 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2181 the tooltips work though...
21827 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2183 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
21848 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2185 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2186 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2187
2188
2189Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010021909 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2191 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021929 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2193 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2194 through files.
21957 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2196 read long file names. (Schroeder)
21974 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2198 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2199 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2200 problem during a refresh.
22015 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2202 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2203 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2204 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2205 colors as it should.
2206 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2207 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2208
2209
2210Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002211- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022127 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2213 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022148 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2215 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2216 (Phillipps)
2217
2218
2219GUI:
22209 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2221 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
22229 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002223 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002224 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
22259 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2226 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
22278 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2228 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
22298 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2230 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2231 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
22328 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2233 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2234 of where it is processing the output.
2235 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
22368 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2237 doesn't work.
22388 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000022398 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2240 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2241 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020022428 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022438 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2244 browse().
22458 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2246 use that code? Or use console dialog.
22478 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2248 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000022497 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2250 - regexp on/off
2251 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2252 when all buffers/directory is used:
2253 - filter for file name
2254 when directory is used:
2255 - subdirectory on/off
2256 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022578 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2258 to avoid problems.
22598 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2260 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2261 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
22628 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2263 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2264 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
22658 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2266 up. Set erase character somehow?
22678 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2268 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2269 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2270 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
22718 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
22727 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2273 visible.
22747 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2275 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
22767 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2277 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
22788 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2279 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
22808 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2281 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2282 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2283 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2284- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
22854 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2286 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2287 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2288
2289
2290MSDOS/DJGPP:
22919 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2292 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2293 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
22948 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2295 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
22969 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002297 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2298 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022999 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2300 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2301 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2302 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
23039 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2304 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2305 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2306 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2307 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2308 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2309 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2310 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2311 key code. Use a translation table?
23129 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2313 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
23148 Use DJGPP 2.03.
23158 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2316 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
23178 setlocale() is bogus.
23188 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2319 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2320 Windows 95 system!
23218 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000023227 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002323 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
23247 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2325 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2326 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
23278 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2328 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
23297 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2330 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2331 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2332 "[New file]".
23337 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2334 that is supported?
23358 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
23368 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2337 Briscoe)
2338
2339
2340MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
23418 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2342 gen_expand_wildcards().
23438 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2344 Wagner.
23458 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
23468 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2347 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000023488 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2349 a good fallback, thus use:
2350 $HOME
2351 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2352 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2353 $USERPROFILE
2354 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2355 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2356 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2357 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023588 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2359 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
23608 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2361 Should work like in the GUI version.
23628 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2363 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
23648 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2365 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
23668 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2367 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2368 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023698 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2370 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2371 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2372
2373
2374Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020023758 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002376 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2377 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
23788 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2379 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2380
2381
2382Win32 console:
23839 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2384 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2385 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2386 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2387 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2388 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2389 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2390 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2391 and the file is not saved.
2392 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2393 long name.
23948 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2395 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
23967 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2397 besides the console.
23988 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
23999 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2400 <C-S-i>?
24019 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2402 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
24038 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2404 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024057 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2406 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2407 exiting.
2408
2409
2410Amiga:
24118 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2412 sequences.
24139 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2414 backslashes in result.
24158 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2416 all options, using white space separation.
2417
2418
2419Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002420- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024217 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2422 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2423 (Jack)
2424 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024258 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2426 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024278 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
24288 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
24299 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2430 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024319 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002432
2433
2434"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002435- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2436 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2438 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002439- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2440 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2441 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2442 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2443 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2444 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2445 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000024469 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2447 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000024489 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002449 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2450 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024518 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2452 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2453 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002454 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024557 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2456 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
24578 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2458 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2459 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024607 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2461 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002462- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2463 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024648 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2465 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2466 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2467 using the horizontal scrollbar.
24687 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2469 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2470 invocations belong together.
24718 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2472 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
24738 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2474 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2475 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2476 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2477 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000024788 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2479 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2480 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024818 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2482 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024837 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2484 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2485 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2486 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024877 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2488 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2489 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
24907 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2491 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2492 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
24937 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2494 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024957 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2496 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024979 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2498 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2499 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2500 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2501 script can be called.
25028 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2503 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2504 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025058 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2506 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000025078 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002508 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2509 configurable?
25108 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
25119 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2512 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2513 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025148 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2515 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025168 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2517 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025188 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2519 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025209 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2521 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2522 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025237 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025248 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2525 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2526 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000025278 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2528 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2530 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025318 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2532 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
25339 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2534 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2535 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002536 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025377 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2538 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025397 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2540 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2541 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2542 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025438 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002544 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2545 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2546 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2547 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002548 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2549 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002550 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002551 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002552 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2553 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2554 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2555 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2556 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
25578 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2558 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
25599 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2560 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2561 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025628 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2563 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
25648 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2565 in lines that don't extend into the block?
25668 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2567 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2568 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
25698 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2570 'linebreak'.
25718 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2572 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2573 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025749 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2575 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2576 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2577 'magic' in history. (Margo)
25789 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2579 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
25809 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2581 isn't updated).
25829 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
25839 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2584 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2585 cause another redraw, etc.
25868 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2587 must escape special characters in the pattern.
25888 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2589 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2590 ":w!!" for that.
2591 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2592 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002593 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025947 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2595 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2596 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2597 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2598 clipboard)
25997 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2600 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2601 Waggoner)
26028 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2603 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2604 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000026056 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2606 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2607 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026088 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2609 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
26108 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2611 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2612 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000026138 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026148 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2615 (e.g., ":w").
26168 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2617 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
26188 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2619 for ">>".
26208 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2621 script in do_cmdline().
26228 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2623 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2624 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2625 changes.
26268 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2627 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
26288 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2629 check for file marks. This can be slow.
26307 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2631 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2632 needed.
2633 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
26348 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2635 to skip catch_signals()?
26369 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2637 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2638 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2639 text?
26408 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2641 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
26428 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2643 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
26449 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2645 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2646 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2647 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2648 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
26497 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2650 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2651 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2652 in the list?
26538 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2654 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2655 instead of on button down.
26568 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
26579 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2658 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002659 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2660 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026618 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2662 character is typed.
26638 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2664 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
26658 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2666 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
26678 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2668 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2669 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2670 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2671 cygwin bash.
26727 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2673 Remember flags for backreferences.
26747 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2675 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
26767 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2677 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
26788 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2679 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
26807 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2681 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026827 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2683 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2684 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
26857 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2686 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
26878 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2688 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2689 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
26907 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2691 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002692
2693
2694I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
26959 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2696 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2697 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002698
2699
2700Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002701- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2702 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2703 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002704- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2705 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2706 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2707 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2708 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2709 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002710 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002711- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2712 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002713 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002714 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2715 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2716 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002717- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2718 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2719 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2720 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2721 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2722- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2723 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2724 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2725- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2726 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002727- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002728- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2729 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2730 character gets the highlighting.
2731- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2732 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2733- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2734 (Jennings)
2735- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2736- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2737 errors. How do we get the rest?
2738- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002739- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002740 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2741- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2742 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2743 first?
2744- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2745 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2746- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2747 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2748 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2749- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2750 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2751 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2752 (Benzinger).
2753- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2754 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2755 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2756- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2757 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2758- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2759 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2760- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2761 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2762 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2763 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2764 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2765 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2766- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2767 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2768 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002769- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2770 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2771 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002772- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2773 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2774 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2775- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2776 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2777- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2778 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002779- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2780 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2781- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2782 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2783 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2784 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2785 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2786- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2787 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2788 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2789- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2790 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2791 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002792- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2793 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 +00002794- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2795 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2796 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2797 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2798 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2799- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2800 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2801
2802--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2803 *extensions-improvements*
2804
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002805Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2806- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2807 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2808 calling a function.
2809 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2810 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002811- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2812 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2813- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2814 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2815 http://clewn.sf.net.
2816 And the idevim plugin/script.
2817 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2818 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2819 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2820 other window.
2821 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2822 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2823 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2824 in terminal mode.
2825- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2826 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2827 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2828 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2829 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2830 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002832- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2833 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2834 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002835- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2836 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002837- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2838 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2839 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028408 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2841 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2842 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2843 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002844- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2845 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002846
2847
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002848Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028498 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2850 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028518 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2852 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028538 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2854 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028558 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028567 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
28579 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2858 - change to cursor position and curswant
2859 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2860 - how it works for folded lines
2861 - how it works with multi-byte characters
28629 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2863 work too.
28648 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2865 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2866 text.
28678 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
28687 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2869 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
28707 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2871 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002872 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002873- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2874
2875
2876Help:
2877- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2878 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2879- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2880 to the other matches.
2881- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2882- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2883- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2884 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2885 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2886 default contents.
2887- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2888 height for the help window (and other windows).
2889- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2890- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2891- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2892
2893
2894User Friendlier:
28958 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2896 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2897 Briscoe)
28988 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
28998 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2900 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2901 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
29028 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2903 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2904- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2905 ":mkplugin <file>"?
29068 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2907 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2908 'runtimepath'.
2909 " Vim plugin
2910 <main plugin code>
2911 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2912 <plugin docs>
2913- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
29149 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2915 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2916 item?).
2917 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
29197 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000029207 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2921 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2922 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000029238 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2924 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2925 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2926 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002927
2928
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002929Tab pages:
29309 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029317 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2932 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029338 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000029348 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029357 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029367 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002937 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029387 Add local variables for each tab page?
29398 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2940 tab pages.
29417 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029427 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2943 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002944
2945
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002946Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2948 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2949- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2950 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2951 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2952- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2953 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002954- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2955 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2956 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002957- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2958 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2959 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002960- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2961 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002962- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002963 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2964 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000029658 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2966 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
29678 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2968 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
29698 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2970 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002971 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002972 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2973 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2974 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2975 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002976- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2977 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002978- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002979- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2980 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002981- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002982 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002983- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002984 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002985- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2986 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002987- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2988 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2989- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002990 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002991 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2992 in the affix file separately.
2993 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002994 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002995 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2996 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2997 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2998- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2999 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3000 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3001 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3002 Alternative:
3003 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3004 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3005 affix which is required.
3006- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003007 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003008- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3009 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3010 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003011- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3012 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003013- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3014 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3015- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030168 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3017 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3018 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3019 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003020- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3021 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3022 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3023 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030248 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3025 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030268 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
30278 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3028 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030297 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
30308 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3031 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3032 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3033 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003034
3035
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003036Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030379 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3038 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003039 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030408 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3041 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3042 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003043 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3044 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030457 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3046 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3047 location.
3048
3049
3050Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003051 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3052 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030538 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3054 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000030558 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030569 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3057 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030588 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3059 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3060 user aware of this?
30618 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3062 commands skip over a closed fold.
30638 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
30648 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030657 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003066- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3067 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3068 missing line goes unnoticed.
3069 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003070- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3071 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3072 smoother?
3073- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3074 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003075- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3076 file can contain:
3077 args version.c main.c
3078 edit version.c
3079 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003080- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003081- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3082 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003083- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3084 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003085- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3086 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003087- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030888 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003089 searches.
3090
3091
3092Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003093- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3094 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3095 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3096 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030979 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3098 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3099 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3100 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031019 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3102 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3103 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031048 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3105 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3106 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3107 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3108 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3109 item.
31108 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003111 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3112 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031138 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3114 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003115 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003116 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031178 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3118 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031198 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3120 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3121 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031227 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3123 so that the user can fix the problem.
31248 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3125 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031269 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
31278 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031288 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
31298 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031307 Searching and composing characters:
3131 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
3132 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
3133 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
3134 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3135 characters can be manipulated.
3136 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
3137 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031388 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
31398 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
31408 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3141 characters.
31428 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
31438 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3144 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
31457 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3146 'display' option to specify this.
31477 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3148 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3149- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3150 fontselector somehow.
3151- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3152 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3153- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3154 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3155- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3156 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3157 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3158 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3159 if a font exists?
3160- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003161 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003162- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3163 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
31647 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3165 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003166- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3167 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3168 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3169 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003170- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3171 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3172 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3173- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3174 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3175 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3176 But it's very complicated...
3177
3178
3179Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000031807 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003181- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3182- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3183 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003184- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3185 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003186- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3187- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3188 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003189- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3190 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003191- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3192 units as for the margins.
3193- Support right-to-left text?
31948 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3195 color.
3196
3197
3198Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031998 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3200 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
32018 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3202 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
32038 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3204 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000032057 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3206 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032078 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3208 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3209 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032107 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3211 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3212 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032138 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
32149 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3215 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032167 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3217 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000032187 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3219 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032208 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3221 change this for each release.
32228 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3223 pattern, but not in the body.
32248 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3225 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3226 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032278 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
32288 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3229 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3230 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3231 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003232 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3233 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032348 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3235 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
32368 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3237 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003238 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032398 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3240 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3241 used.
32428 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3243 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
32448 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3245 re-insert the [] if possible.
32468 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3247 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032488 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3249 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3250 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3251 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3252 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032538 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3254 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
32558 Support for deleting syntax items:
3256 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3257 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3258 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
32598 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3260 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3261 a '<'. (Fleiner)
32627 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3263 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3264 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
32657 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3266 detected.
32678 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003268 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032698 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3270 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032718 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
32728 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
32737 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3274 ":mkvimrc".
32758 Improve c.vim:
3276 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3277 "c_strict_ansi".
3278 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
32798 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3280 current line while in Insert mode.
32818 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3282 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
32838 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3284 display position.
32858 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3286 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3287 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
32888 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3289 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3290 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032918 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3292 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3293 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032947 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3295 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3296 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3297 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3298 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032997 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3300 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3301 E.g. for this html:
3302 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033037 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
33047 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3305 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033068 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
33078 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033087 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3309 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3310 completion?
33118 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3312 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
33137 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3314 select one of the sets.
33158 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3316 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3317 2, etc.
33188 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3319 highlighting (for "." command).
33208 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3321 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
33228 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
33237 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3324 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
33256 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3326 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3327- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3328 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3329- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003330- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3331 (for comment blocks).
3332- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3333 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3334 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3335 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3336 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3337 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3338 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3339 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3340 (Campbell)
3341 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3342 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
33437 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3344 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
33457 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3346 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3347 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
33487 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3349 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3350 messages. And external commands?
33518 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3352 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
33537 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3354 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3355
3356
3357Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033588 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3359 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003360 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033617 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3362 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3363 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033648 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3365 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003366- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3367 2006 Dec 11.
3368- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020033698 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3370 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3371 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3372 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3373 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3374 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033757 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3376 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033778 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
33788 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3379 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3380 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3381 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3382 nested packages?
3383 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3384 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3385 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033867 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3387 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3388 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3389 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3390 autocommand.
3391 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3392 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3393 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3394 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033957 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3396 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033976 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3398 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033998 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003400 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3401 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3402 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3403 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3404 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3405 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3406 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003407 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3408 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3409 3 2002
3410 Only add this when also implemented for
3411 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3412 be used.
3413 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003414 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3415 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3416 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3417 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3418 File.Open..." argument.
3419 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3420 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3421 with properties instead.
3422 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3423 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3424 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003425 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003426 crypt() encrypt string
3427 decrypt() decrypt string
3428 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3429 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003430 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003431 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003432 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003433 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003434 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003435 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3436 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003437 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3438 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003439 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003440 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3441 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003442 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3443 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3444 to allow the library to execute a command or
3445 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034467 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3447 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
34488 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3449 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034508 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3451 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034528 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034537 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3454 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
34556 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034568 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3457 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034588 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3459 option or environment variable.
34608 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034618 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003462 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034637 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3464 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034658 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3466 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
34678 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
34688 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3469 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3470 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3471 charwise({expr}).
34727 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3473 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3474 buffer for this?
3475 result = scratch(string, command)
3476 result = apply(string, command)
3477 result = execute(string, command)
3478 "command" would use <> notation.
3479 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
34807 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003481
3482
3483Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000034846 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3485 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3486 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3487 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3488 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3489 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3490 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003491
3492
3493Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034947 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3495 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020034967 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3497 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3498 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3499 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035008 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3501 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3502 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3503 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003504 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035058 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3506 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3507 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035088 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
35099 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
35108 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
35117 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3512 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
35138 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3514 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3515 when starting up in a color terminal.
35168 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3517 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035188 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3519 function be improved?
35208 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3521 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3522 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3523 this be improved?
35248 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3525 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035267 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3527 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035287 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3529 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
35307 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3531 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035327 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035337 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3534 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3535 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3536 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3537 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3538 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3539 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035408 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3541 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3542 using strcmp() too often?
35437 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3544 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3545 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3546 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3547 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3548 the two blocks to the memfile block.
35497 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3550 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3551 with an argument that can be messed with.
3552 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3553 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
35547 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3555- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
35568 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3557 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3558- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3559 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3560- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3561- Do profiling on:
3562 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3563 - 1000ii<Esc>
3564 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3565 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3566 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3567 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3568 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3569 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003570 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035717 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3572 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3573 changed).
3574 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3575 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3576- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3577- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3578 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3579- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3580 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3581 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3582- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3583 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3584- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3585- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3586 cursor is right of the screen.
35878 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3588 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3589
3590
3591Code size:
35928 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3593- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3594 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
35958 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
35968 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3597 it.
35987 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3599 left out.
36008 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3601 can be removed.
36028 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3603
3604
3605Messages:
36068 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3607 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
36088 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3609 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
36108 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3611 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3613 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3614- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036158 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3616 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036179 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3618 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3619 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3620 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3621 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036228 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3623 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
36248 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3625 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3626 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3627 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3628 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3629 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003630- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003631 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036328 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3633 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3634 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3635 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3636 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3637 error messages, printing text, etc.
36388 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3639 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3640 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3641
3642
3643Screen updating:
36447 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3645 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3646 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3647- screen_line():
3648 - insert/delete character stuff.
3649 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3650- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3651 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3652- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3653 waiting for a character.
36548 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3655 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3656 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
36577 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003658
3659
3660Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020036618 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036626 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3663- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3664 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3665 windows.
36667 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3667 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3668 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3669- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3670 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3671 (Goldfarb)
3672- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3673 bound windows.
3674- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3675 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003676- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003677- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3678 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3679 of lines but not with a single line).
3680
3681
3682Autoconf:
36838 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
36848 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3685 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3686- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3687 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3688- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3689- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3690- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3691
3692
3693Perl interface:
36948 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036957 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
36967 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
36976 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3698
3699
3700Shared libraries:
37016 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3702 :libload internal-name libname
3703 :libunload internal-name
3704 :liblist
3705 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3706 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3707 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
37086 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3709
3710
3711Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000037129 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3713 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3714 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3715 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3716 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037178 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3718 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3719 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003720 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003721 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000037227 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3723 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3724 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037258 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
37268 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3727 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037287 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3729 window for each tag.
37307 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
37317 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3732 bottom" search message.
37337 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3734 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3735 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003736- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3737- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003738- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3739 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3740 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037417 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3742 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3743 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3744 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
37457 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3746 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3747 :tagargs clear
3748 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3749 matching).
37507 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3751 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3752 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3753 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
37547 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3755 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
37567 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3757 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3758 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003759
3760
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761Win32 GUI:
37628 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3763 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037647 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3765 (Mike McCollister)
37668 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3767 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3768 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3769 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3770 common part of the path.
37718 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
37728 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3773 gettext and menus work.
37748 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3775 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003776 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003777 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
37788 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3779 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
37808 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3781 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
37827 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3783 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
37847 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
37857 <Esc> should close a dialog.
37867 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3787 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3788 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3789 prompts.
37907 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3791 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3792 the file added into an already running Vim.
37937 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3794 functions to find the window title.
3795
3796
3797GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020037988 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3800 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
38017 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
38028 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
38036 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
38048 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3805 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
38069 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
38077 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
38088 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3809 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
38108 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3811 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3812 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
38138 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3814 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
38158 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3816 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3817 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3818 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038197 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
38208 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3821 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000038227 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3823 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3824 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038258 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
38268 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003827 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038288 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
38298 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
38308 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3831 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3832 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
38337 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3834 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3835 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
38367 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3837 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
38387 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3839 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3840 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3841 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
38427 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3843 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
38447 Should support multi-column menus.
3845- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3846 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3847- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
38488 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
38496 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3850 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
38517 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
38527 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3853 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3854 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
38557 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
38568 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3857 name can be chosen free.
38587 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3859 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
38606 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3861 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3862 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3863 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3864 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3865 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3866 things.
38677 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3868 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038697 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003870 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003871- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3872 where it was started from?
38737 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3874
3875
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003876Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020038779 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3878 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003879- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038808 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3881 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3882 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3883 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
38848 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3885 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038867 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3887 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3888 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3889 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000038907 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038918 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3892 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038938 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3894 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3895 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038967 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3897 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3898 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038998 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3900 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3901 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039027 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3903 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039048 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3905 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039068 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039076 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3908 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039097 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039107 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003911 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3912 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3913 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039145 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3915 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3916 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
39177 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3918 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3919 file.
39208 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3921 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3922 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923- Add events to autocommands:
3924 Error - When an error happens
3925 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003926 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003927 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3928 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003929 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003930 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003931 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3932 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003933 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003934 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003935 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003936 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3937 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3938 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3939 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3942 the char.
3943 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3944 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3945 file from CVS).
3946 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3947 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3948 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3949 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3950 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3951 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003952 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3953 changes.
3954 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3955 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003956- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003957 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003958 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3960 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3961 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3962 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3963 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3964
3965
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003966Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003967- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3968 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003969- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3970 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3971 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3972 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3973 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003974- Ideas from others:
3975 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3976 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3977 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3978 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3979 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3980 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3981 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3982 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3983 Uses Perl for C++.
3984 Uses ctags to find the info:
3985 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3986 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3987 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3988 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3989 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3990 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003991 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003992 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3993- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3994
3995
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003996Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003997- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000039987 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3999 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040007 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4001 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4002 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040038 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4004 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
40059 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4006 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4007 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040088 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4009 - ignore/match case
4010 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040118 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4012 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4013 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4014 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4015 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4016 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040178 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040187 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4019 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040208 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4021 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4022 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4023 Should work for C++ and Java.
4024 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
40257 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
40267 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4027 instead of words.
40288 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
40298 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4030 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
40318 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4032 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004033- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4034 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004035- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4036 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4037 wildcards in the file name)?
4038- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4039- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4040- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4041 be in another file).
4042- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4043- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4044- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4045 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4046- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4047- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4048- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4050
4051
4052Command line editing:
40537 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4054 line.
40558 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4056 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4057 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4058- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4059 lines wraps to start of line).
4060- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4061 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4062 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4063 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4064 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4065 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4066 cmdwin does now already.
4067 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4068 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4069 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4070 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4071 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4072 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4073 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4074 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4075 Problems:
4076 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4077 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4078 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4079 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4080 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4081 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4082 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4083 character in first column?
4084 - Implementation ideas:
4085 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4086 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4087 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4088 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4089 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4090 Mode.
4091
4092
4093Command line completion:
40948 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
40958 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4096 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
40978 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4098 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040998 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4100 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041017 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4102 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4104- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4105 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041068 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4107 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
41087 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4109 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4110- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4111 identifiers (Webb).
41128 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4113 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
41147 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4115 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4116- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4117 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4118- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4119 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4120 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004121
4122
4123Command line history:
4124- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4125 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4126 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4127 completely resulted from one mapping.
4128- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4129 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4130
4131
4132Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000041339 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4134 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4135 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041368 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4137 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4138 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4139 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4140 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041418 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4142 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4143 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041447 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4145 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004146- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041479 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041487 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4149 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4150- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4151 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4152 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4153 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4154 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4155 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4156- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4157 Normal mode.
4158- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4159 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4160 are used.
4161- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4162- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4163- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4164
4165
4166'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041679 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4168 char * veryLongName =
4169 "very long string"
4170 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041718 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041728 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4173 long_type foo =
4174 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4176 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004177 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041788 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4179 func(
4180 new String[] {
4181 "asdf",
4182 "asdf"
4183 }
4184 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041858 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4186 (Chow Loong Jin)
4187 namespace {
4188 int
4189 func(int arg) {
4190 }
4191 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041926 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4193 func( arg1
4194 , arg2
4195 , arg3
4196 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000041977 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198 func(
4199 int x) // indent like "(4"
4200 {
4201 if (a
4202 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042039 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4204 if (a)
4205 {
4206 if (b)
4207 {
4208 // {
4209 }
4210 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004211 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4212 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4213 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004214- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
42167 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4217- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4218 line).
4219- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4220- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4221 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004222- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4223 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4224- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4225 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4226- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4227- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4228 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
42298 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4230 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4231 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4232- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4233- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4234 lines start with "\item".
4235- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4236 /* here is a comment that
4237 is just autoindented, and
4238 nothing else */
4239- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
42407 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4241 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4242 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004243 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244
4245
4246Java:
42478 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4248 Odendahl?
42498 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4250 "[i" commands and friends.
4251- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4252 (Jason)
4253- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4254 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4255
4256
4257'comments':
42588 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4259 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4260 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4261 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004262 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4263 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042647 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4265 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
42667 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
42676 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4268 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4269 regexp is used.
42708 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4271 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4272
4273
4274Virtual edit:
42758 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042767 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4277
4278
4279Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042808 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042818 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000042828 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004283 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042848 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4285 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004286 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4287 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042888 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042897 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4290 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042918 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4292 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042938 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4294 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4295 the end of the line or before a ".".
42967 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4297 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
42987 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4299 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043006 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
43015 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4302 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4303 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4304 cursor is on.
4305
4306
4307Select mode:
43088 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4309 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
43107 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004311 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043127 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4313 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4314 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4315 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4316 normal_cmd().
4317 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4318 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4319
4320
4321Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020043228 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4323 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004324- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4325 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4326 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004327- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4328 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4329 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004331 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004332 where needed.
43337 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4334 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
43357 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4336 of each selected line.
43378 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
43388 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4339 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4340 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
43418 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4342 Ben Godfrey)
43437 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4344 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
43457 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4346 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
43477 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4348 Young is working on this)
43497 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004350 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
43528 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4353 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
43547 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4355 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4356 option!
43577 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4358 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4359 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4360 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4361 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4362 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4363 without changing the column.
43646 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4366 current buffer.
43677 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
43686 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4369 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
43706 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043716 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004372 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004373 or other special character.
43746 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4375
4376
4377More advanced repeating commands:
4378- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043797 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004380 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004381- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004382- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004383 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4384 "y." will repeat last yank.
4385 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4386 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4387 and/or pick an older command.
4388- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4389
4390
4391Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043928 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4393 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4394 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
43958 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
43967 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4397 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043988 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4399 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
44008 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000044017 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4403 entering search strings.
44048 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4405 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4406 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044078 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4408 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044098 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4410 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4411 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
44127 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044137 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4414 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044156 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4416 abbreviations are to be used.
4417- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4418 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4419 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004420- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4421 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4422 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4423 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4424 Or implicit:
4425 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004426- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4427 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4428 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004429- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4430 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4431- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4432 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
44336 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4434 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4435 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4436 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004437- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4438 non-replace Insert mode?
4439- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004440- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4441- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4442 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4443- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004444 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4446 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4447- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4448- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4449 ":freekeys".
4450- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4451
4452
4453Incsearch:
4454- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4455- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4456 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4457 up every time.
4458- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4459 folds when going to another line.
4460- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4461 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4462 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4463 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4464- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4465 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4466
4467
4468Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010044699 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000044708 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004471 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004472 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004473 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004474 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044759 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4476 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044778 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4478 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000044798 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4480 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4481 Perl does it this way:
4482 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4483 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4484 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4485 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044868 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4487 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4488 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044898 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4490 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4491 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000044927 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4493 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000044948 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4495 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000044967 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004497 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4498 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4499 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
45007 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4501 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045027 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004503 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045047 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4505 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4507 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
45088 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4509 line.
45107 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4511 example.
45128 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4513 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4514- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4515 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4516 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4517 Alternative: use matchit.vim
45188 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
45198 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4520 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4521 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
45227 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4523 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000045247 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4525 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045268 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4527 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045288 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4529 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045308 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4531 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4532 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4533 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004534- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4535 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004536- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4537 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4538- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4539 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4540 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4541 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045428 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4543 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004544- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4545 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045468 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4547 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4548 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004549- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4550 i ignore case
4551 I use case
4552 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4553 v use Vi regexp syntax
4554 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4555 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4556 Perl uses these too:
4557 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4558 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4559 o compile only once (Perl only)
4560 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4561 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4562 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4563 following command.
4564 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4565- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4566 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4567 for search string)?
45687 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4569 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4570- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4571 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4572- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4573 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4574- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4575- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004576 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004577 a for the next file in the argument list
4578 f for file in the buffer list
4579 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004580 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4581 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004582 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4583 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4584- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045857 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004586 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045877 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4588 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4589 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4590 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
45916 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4592 effects.
45937 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4594 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4595 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045967 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597 Also ":dselect".
4598
4599
4600Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046019 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4602 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4603 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046049 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4605 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020046068 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4607 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4608 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
46098 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4610 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046118 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4612 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4613 timestamp?
4614 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4615 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046168 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4617 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4618 was changed outside of Vim.
4619 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4620 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004621 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4622 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004623- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4624 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004625- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4626 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4627 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
46288 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4629 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4630 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4631 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
46328 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4633 only remember the lines that really changed.
46347 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4635 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4636 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4637 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004638- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4639 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4640- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4641 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4642- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4643 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4644 [-99].
4645- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4646- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004647- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4648 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4649
4650
4651Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046527 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4653 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4654 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4655 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
46568 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4657 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
46588 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4659 inode too.
46607 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004661 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4662 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046637 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4664 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4665- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4666 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4667- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4668 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
46697 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4670 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
46717 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4672 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
46738 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046748 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004675 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
46767 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4677 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010046788 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4679 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4680 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004681
4682
4683Swap (.swp) files:
46848 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4685 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4686 there are short file name problems.
46878 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4688 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
46898 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
46908 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004691 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004692 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4693 file the same as the actual file?
4694 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046957 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4696 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
46977 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004698 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004699 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4700 enough room.
47017 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4702 or /var/preserve.
4703- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4704 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4705- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4706 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4707- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4708 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4709 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4710 cached list of which line is where.
4711
4712
4713Viminfo:
47147 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4715 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4716 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000047178 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4718 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4719 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047208 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4721 name. (Schild)
47228 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
47238 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047248 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047258 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4726 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4727 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4728 this?
47297 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
47307 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4731 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
47326 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4733 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4734 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4735- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4736 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4737
4738
4739Modelines:
47408 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4741 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4742 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004743- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4744 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4745 'shiftwidth'.
4746- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4747 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004748- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4749 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4750 modeline setting.
4751- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4752 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4753- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4754 .cpp files.
4755- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4756 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4757- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4758 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4759
4760
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004761Sessions:
47628 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4763 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
47647 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4765 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047668 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4767 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047688 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4769 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4770 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000047717 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4772 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000047737 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004774
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004775
4776Options:
47777 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4778 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047798 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4780 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4781 also be supported.
47828 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4783 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4784 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
47857 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
47867 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4787 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004788 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004789
4790
4791External commands:
47928 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4793 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
47944 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4795 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4796 -f).
47974 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
47984 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4799 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
48004 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4801
4802
4803Multiple Windows:
48047 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
48058 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4806 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
48077 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4808 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4809 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048107 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4811 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000048127 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4813 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048146 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4815 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004816 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004817 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
48187 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4819 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4820 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4821 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4822- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4823 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4824 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4825 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4826
4827
4828Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048298 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048308 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4831 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048328 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 +000048338 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4834 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
48358 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4836 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4837 the mark was set.
48387 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4839 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4840 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4841 ":browse marks"?
48426 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048437 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4844 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
48457 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4846 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
48477 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4848 command).
48497 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4850 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4851 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4852 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
48535 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4854 mappings.
48556 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4856 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4857 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4858
4859
4860Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020048617 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004862 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004863- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4864 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000048658 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048667 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4867 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4868
4869
4870Writing files:
4871- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4872 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4873 shortname conversion.
48748 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
48758 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4876 file.
48778 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4878 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4879 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048806 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4881 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
48826 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4883 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
48846 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4885 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048868 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004887 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
48887 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4889 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
48907 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4891 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4892 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4893 waiting for a character to be typed).
48948 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4895 line of the window, like "[time]".
4896 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4897 Automatic and/or with a command.
4898
4899
4900Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000049018 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4902 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049038 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004904 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4905- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4906- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
49078 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4908 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004909- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004910 :s///N substitutes N times.
4911- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4912 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4913 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
49147 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4915 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4916 last line column 5.
49175 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4918 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4919 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4920 (Stanislav Sitar)
4921
4922
4923Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049248 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
49257 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
49268 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4927 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4928 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004929- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4930- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4931 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4932- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4933- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4934
4935
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004936Argument list:
49376 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4938 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4939 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
49406 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4941
4942
4943Registers:
49448 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
49458 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4946 around in windows.
49478 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4948 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4949 for every line.
49506 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4951 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4952 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4953- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4954 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4955- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4956 leader when line wraps?
4957- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4958 line in the range.
4959- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4960 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
49618 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4962 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004963
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004964
4965Debug mode:
49667 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
49678 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000049688 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049697 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004970 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4971 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4972 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049737 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
49747 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4975
4976
4977Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000049787 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4979 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4980 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4981 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4982 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4983 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4984 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004985 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000049867 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4987 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000049887 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4989 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049908 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4991 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049927 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4993 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4994 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004995- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004996 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049977 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4998 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049997 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5000 window as a buffer-tab selection.
50018 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050027 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5003 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5004 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005005 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5006 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050077 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5008 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
50098 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5010 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050116 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050128 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5013 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5014 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5015 in this Vim.
50168 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005017 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050188 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5019 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5020 have it apply to the following command.
50218 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5022 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5023 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5024 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050257 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5026 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050277 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5028 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5029 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5030 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050316 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
50328 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
50339 Support ACLs on more systems.
50347 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5035 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050367 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5037 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5038 (truncated to fit in the space).
50397 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
50408 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
50418 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5042 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000050437 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005044 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
50457 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5046 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050477 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050487 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
50497 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
50518 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5052 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5053 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5054 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
50558 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
50566 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5057 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005058 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005059 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050608 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050618 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5062 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5063 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5064 does something like this. (Shah)
50657 Use growarray for replace stack.
50667 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5067 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
50683 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050697 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5070 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010050717 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5072 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005073- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5074- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5075- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5076- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
50777 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5078 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5079- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5080 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005081- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005082- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5083 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5084- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5085 call "play newbeep.au").
5086- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5087 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5088 (Bhatt).
5089- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5090 blockwise registers).
5091- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5092 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5093- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5094 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5095 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5096 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005097- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050987 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5099 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5100- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5101 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5102 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5103 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5104 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051058 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5106 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051078 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5108 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5109 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5110 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5111 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5112- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005113- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051147 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5115 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5116- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5117 not in column 1.
51186 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5119 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
51207 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5121- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005122- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005123 :redir #> bufname
5124 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005125- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5126 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005127- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5128 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5129 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
51306 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5131 console? (Klaus Hast)
5132- Add :delcr command:
5133 *:delcr*
5134 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5135 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5136 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5137 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5138 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5139 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5140- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5141- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5142 characters from 'isprint'.
5143- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5144- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5145 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5146- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5147 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5148 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5149- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5150- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5151 Nvi).
5152- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5153 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
51547 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5155- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5156 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
51576 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5158- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5159 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5160 macro).
5161- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005162- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5163 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5164- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
51658 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005166- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5167- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5168- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5169 if it is not the first or last window.
5170- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5171 there is one) instead of the file itself.
51727 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5173 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5174 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5175- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5176- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005177 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178 many percent down the windows).
5179- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5180 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5181 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005182 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005183- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5184 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5185- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5186 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5187- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5188- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5189- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5190 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051918 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5192 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5193 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5194 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5195 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005196- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5197 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5198- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005199 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5200- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005201 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5202 (Webb).
5203- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005204 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005205- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5206 hex codes like 0xff).
5207- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5208 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5209 the last TYPED command.
5210- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5211- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5212- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5213 should also work?
5214- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
52158 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5216 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5217 name.
5218- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5219 trailing '.'.
5220- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5221 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5222 find_file_in_path().
5223- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5224 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5225- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5226- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5227 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5228- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005229 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005230- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5231 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5232 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005233- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5234- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5235- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5236 to the minimal size.
5237- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5238- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5239- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5240- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5241- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005242- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5243 entered)?
5244- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5245 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005246- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5248- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5249- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5250- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5251- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5252 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005253- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052548 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5255 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5256 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5257 or in octal.
52587 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5259 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005260- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005261 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5262- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5263- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5264 insert line command).
5265- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5266- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5267- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5268- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5269- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5270 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005271- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005272 yet.
5273- Implement 'redraw' option.
5274- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5275 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052767 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5277 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005278 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5279 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052808 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5281 do it.
5282- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5283- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5284 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5285- Add text justification option.
5286- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5287- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5288 off".
5289- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5290- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5291- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005292 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005293- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005294- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005295- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5296- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5297 commands.
5298- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5299- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5300- :table command (Webb)
5301- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005302- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5303- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5304- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5305- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5306- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5307 (Demirel).
5308- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5309- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5310 for use in macro's and the like.
5311- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005312 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005313- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005314 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005315- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005316 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005317 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5318- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5319 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005320- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005321 mkopttab to make option table?
5322- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5323 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5324- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5325 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005326- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005327 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5328- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5329 cursor?
5330- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5331- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
53325 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5333 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053348 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5335 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5336 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5337 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5338 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053398 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5340 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5341 (Netherton)
53426 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5343 space after "(", for example.
53445 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5345 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5346 (Servatius Brandt)
5347
5348
5349From Elvis:
5350- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5351- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005352- Search patterns:
5353 \@ match word under cursor.
5354 but do:
5355 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5356 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
53578 ":window" command:
5358 :win + next window (up)
5359 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5360 :win - previous window (down)
5361 :win -- idem, wrapping
5362 :win nr to window number "nr"
5363 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
53647 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5365 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5366
5367
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368From xvi:
5369- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5370- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5371
5372
5373From vile:
5374- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5375- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5376 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5377
5378
5379Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005380- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5381 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5382 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5383 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5384 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005385- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5386 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5387- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5388 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5389 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5390 current layout mirrored.
5391- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5392- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5393 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5394- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5395- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5396 font in each top-level window.
5397- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5398- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5399- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5400- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5401 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5402- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5403 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5404 mentioned in the tags file.
5405 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5406 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5407- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5408 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5409- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5410 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
54114 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5412 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5413 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5414 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005415 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5417 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5418- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5419 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5420 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5421
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005422When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5423empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005424
5425vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5426vim: set fo+=n :