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Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Jun 19
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +020041Ongoing work on text properties, see src/textprop.c
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43Popup windows are being implemented, see |popup-window|.
44
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +020045Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
4620)
47Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
48remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
49
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +020050Patch to add v:searchstat. (Takuya Fujiwara, #4446) Should be independent of
51'shortmess', filled on demand and cached until search changes.
52
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +020053Listener causes extra } to be inserted. (Paul Jolly, #4455)
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +020054
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +020055Refactor: Move common things out of evalfunc.c, it's too big.
56E.g. vim_localtime().
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020057
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020058'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010059- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
60 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020061- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
62 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010063- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
64 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020065- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020066- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020067- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
68 isn't one?
69 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
70
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020071Prompt buffer:
72- Add a command line history.
73- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010074- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020075
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020076Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020077- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010078- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
79 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020080- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010081- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020082- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
83 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
84 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010085- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010086- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
87 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010088 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010089 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020090
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020091Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +020092- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
93 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +010094- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
95 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
96 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010097- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
98 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020099- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
100 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100101- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200102- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200103- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200104- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
105 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200106- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
107 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200108- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
109 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
110- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
111 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200112- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
113 is disabled.
114- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
115- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
116 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200117- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
118 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
119 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
120- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
121- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
122 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
123- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
124 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200125
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200126Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200127
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200128Patch to use forward slash for completion even when 'shellslash' is set.
129Adds 'completepathslash'. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 15, #3612)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100130
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200131Patch to add win_splitmove() function. (Andy Massimino, #4561)
132
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200133Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
134Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
135terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
136Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
137(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200138
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100139Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
140(#4087)
141
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200142":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
143goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
144unlisted. (#4478)
145
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200146Problem with German spell file. Hint for solution by Klaus-Peter Schreiner in
147#4314, solves the Rasenmäher problem.
148
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200149Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
150(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
151
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200152Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
153fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
154
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200155Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
156- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
157- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200158
159Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
16013, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200161
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200162Columns and Rows are long, they should be int.
163
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100164Errors found with random data:
165 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100166
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200167Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
168files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
169Include part of #3242?
170
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200171When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
172it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
173
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100174Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
175Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
176
177Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
178
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200179Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
180Ready to include now?
181
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200182The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
183Give a few examples. (#4288)
184
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100185Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
186read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
187be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
188
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200189":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
190
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200191Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
192(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
193
194Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
195
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100196Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
197Mar 5)
198
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200199Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
200on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
201
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200202Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
203in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
204buffer didn't change at all.
205
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200206Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
207register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
208(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
209
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200210Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
211(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
212
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200213Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
214":let buf = bufcreate('name')
215
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200216Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
217'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
218(#4450)
219
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100220When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
221But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
222similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
223
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200224C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
225(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
226
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100227Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
228"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
229
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100230Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
231added?
232
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200233Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
234negative. (see #4326)
235
236'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
237`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
238tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
239:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
240
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200241This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
242 vim: syn=nosyntax
243
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200244":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
245a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
246
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100247Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
248#2948. (related to #1512?)
249On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
250balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
25120, #2481)
252Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
253Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
254balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
2552018 Sep 14)
256Another request: #3811.
257
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200258More warnings from static analysis:
259https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200260
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100261Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
262
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200263Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
264
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200265Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
266internals of the dict structure.
267
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200268Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
269manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
270Athena is OK.
271Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100272
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100273nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
274
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200275Missing tests for:
276- add_termcap_entry()
277
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100278When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
279Cursor should not move. (#4024)
280
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100281Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
282Also run all tests with C locale?
283
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100284"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
285#3927
286
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200287Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200288Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200289
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100290When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
291case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
292For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
293
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200294Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
295(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
296expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200297
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200298Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
299 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
300 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
301
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100302Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100303punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100304
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200305ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
306
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200307Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
308":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
309#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
310Updated 2019 May 25.
311
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200312Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
313drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
314
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200315Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
316is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
317
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100318When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
319scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
320using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
321
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200322Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
323#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
324(Sep 8)
325
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200326Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
327unified diff (list of lines).
328
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100329When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
330kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
331when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
332
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100333Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
334(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100335
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100336Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
337
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200338Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200339Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200340memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200341Memory leak in test_terminal:
342==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
343==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
344==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
345==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
346==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
347==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
348==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
349==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
350==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200351TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100352Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200353Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
354Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200355
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200356gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200357
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200358matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
35919.
360
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100361Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
362Probably window.
363Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
364highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200365And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
366'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100367
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100368Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
369Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
370
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200371Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
372Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
373Not ready to include.
374
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200375Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
376Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
377Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
378
379Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
380
381Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
382screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
383
384Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
385 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
386 Not ready to include.
387
388Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
389Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
390
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200391:pedit resets the 'buflisted' option unexpectedly. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Oct 12,
392#3536)
393
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200394home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
395
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200396When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
397terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
398How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
399
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200400Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
401
402Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
403(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
404
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100405Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
406Feedback from someone who uses this?
407
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200408ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
409
410Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
411Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
412values.
413
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100414Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200415- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
416- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
417- omit diff.exe from distribution
418- Can we make this show differences within a line?
419- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200420
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200421Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
422
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100423Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
424Requires more tests. dbcs_ functions are not implemented.
425
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100426Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
427What is the practical use for this?
428
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200429When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
430includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
431
432Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100433Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200434
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200435MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
436(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
437
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100438Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
439
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200440Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
441when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
442
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100443Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
444mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
445
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200446Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
447modified buffers
448 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
449 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
450 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
451 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
452
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100453Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
454- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
455- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
456- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100457- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
458
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200459Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
460characters. (#3246)
461
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200462'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
463
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100464Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
465Oct 28)
466
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200467ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
468Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
469Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
470Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
471
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100472Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
473- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
474
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200475Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
476- Test_setbufvar_options()
477- Test_exit_callback_interval()
478
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200479Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
480Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100481Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
482Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200483
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200484Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
485
486Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
48724)
488
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100489Try out background make plugin:
490 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
491or asyncmake:
492 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
493
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100494Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100495mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100496
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200497Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
498is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
499used for git temp files.
500
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100501Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
502
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200503Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
504#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
505
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200506Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
507behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
508(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
509
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200510Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
511pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
512
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200513Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
514script or function.
515
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200516Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
517Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
518
519When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
520E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
521does nothing otherwise?
522
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200523MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
524If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
525(wait a little while).
526CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100527
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200528Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
529MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
5302017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
531receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
532
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200533Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
534missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
535
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200536":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
537deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
538
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200539Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200540
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100541Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200542Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
543
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200544With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
545included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
546(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
547
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200548When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
549with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200550
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200551Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200552Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200553
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100554Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100555Jan 15, #2555)
556
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200557":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
558
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100559Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
560
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100561No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
562No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
563
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200564Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
565http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
566Should be supported with a flag.
567
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100568Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
569confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
570
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100571Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
572
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100573Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
574Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
575applying the diff, etc.
576
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200577Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
578Apr 26, #2849)
579
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100580User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
581word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100582
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100583Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200584
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200585With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
586(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
587
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200588Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
589:drop (remote commands).
590
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200591Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
5922018 Jun 18, #3027)
593
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200594Implement option_save() and option_restore():
595option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
596 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
597 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
598 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
599 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
600 be called when the same window is the current window.
601 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
602 the local options won't be restored.
603
604option_save({list}) *option_save()*
605 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
606 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
607 let s:saved_options = option_save([
608 \ 'ignorecase',
609 \ 'iskeyword',
610 \ ])
611 au <buffer> BufLeave *
612 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
613< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
614 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
615 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
616 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100617 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
618 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
619 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100620 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200621
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100622"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
623directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
624Also see #1689.
625
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100626crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
62717, #2652)
628
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100629When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100630highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100631
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200632":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
633
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100634No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
6352017 Dec 26, #2501)
636
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200637A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
638
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200639Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
640
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200641A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
642Mention where they were defined somewhere.
643
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100644Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
645(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
646
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200647ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
648
649Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
650
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100651Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
652Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
653
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100654Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
655in #846)
656Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
657
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200658Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
659Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
660
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100661When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
662redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200663
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100664In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
665(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
666
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100667Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
668neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100669
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100670Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
671Nov 21)
672
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200673When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
674triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
675set_color_count().
676
677Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
678responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
679
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100680When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
681CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
682Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
683always nested.
684
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200685matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
686
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100687Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
688
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100689MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100690for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
691
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200692Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100693(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200694
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200695Test runtime files.
696Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200697
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200698Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200699
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200700Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
701defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
702Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
703
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200704After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
70513, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200706
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200707When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
708line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
709
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100710The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
711
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200712Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
713set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
714
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200715Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
716
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100717Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
718
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200719Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200720It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100721Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200722Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200723
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200724Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
725behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
726
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100727'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
728
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200729All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
730For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
731 mylist~get(idx)
732 mydict~get(idx)
733 mystring~len()
734Alternatives for ~:
735 ^ list^get() could also be used
736 . list.get() already means concatenate
737 $ list$get() harder to read
738 @ list@get() harder to read
739 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
740
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200741The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
742
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100743When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
744a command can delete it.
745
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200746Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
747#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
748
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100749The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
750for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
751
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200752X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
753pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
754clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
755Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
756Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
757clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200758Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200759
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100760Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
761http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
762http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
763Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
764- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
765- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
766- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
767 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
768- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
769- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
770Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
771- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
772- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
773Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
774- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
775
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200776Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
777
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200778Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
779attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
780that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
781
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200782Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
783(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
784
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100785Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
786buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
787Also fixes #2166?
788
789Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
790
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200791Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
792stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
793
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100794Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
795possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
796
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200797When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
798case of :bwipe followed by :new.
799
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200800Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
801existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
802Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
803
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200804Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200805
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200806MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
807Jul 4)
808
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200809Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
810Drucker, 2017 May 8).
811This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
812Christian cannot reproduce it.
813
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200814Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
815wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
816Or is this not an actual problem?
817
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200818Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
819
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200820Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
821
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200822Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
823
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200824'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
825#1736)
826
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200827Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
8288, #1690)
829
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200830Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
831(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
832
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200833Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
834it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
835
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200836Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
837Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
838How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
839
840Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
841(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
842
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100843Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
844
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200845assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
846it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
847
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200848New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
849
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100850Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
851for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200852
853Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
854(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
855Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
856later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
857Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
858mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200859Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
860mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200861maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200862
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100863Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200864plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
865be defined when the plugin is loaded.
866
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100867Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
868 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
869 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100870
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200871json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200872What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100873
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200874Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
875
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200876import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
877(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
878
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100879When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
880buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
881Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100882
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200883Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
884Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100885Another example in #1309
886
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100887When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
888when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
889
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100890Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
891#1330)
892
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200893Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
894
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100895Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
896
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100897GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
898g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
899timer expires.
900
901Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
902
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100903Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
904highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
905
9068 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
907 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
908
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100909Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
910Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
911
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200912Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
913key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
914 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
915 echo keytrans(xx)
916 <C-Home>
917
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100918Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
919(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
920Make a function to check for function-like type?
921
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200922Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
923(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
924
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100925Implement optional arguments for functions.
926 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
927 call Foo(12)
928 call Foo(12, all = 0)
929 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100930
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100931Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
932somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
933
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100934Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
935(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
936
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200937Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
938Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
939New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
940
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200941Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200942Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200943Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200944
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100945The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
946"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
947Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
948
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200949Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
950
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200951Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
952about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200953Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
954
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200955Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
956#1053) With patch, does it work?
957
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200958":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100959vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
960
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200961Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200962E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200963Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100964
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100965Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
966Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
967
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200968Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100969Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200970
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100971"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
972(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
973
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100974Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
975(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100976Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100977
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200978'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
979
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100980Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
981
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200982When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
983Apr 23, #1653)
984
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100985Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
986anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
987
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200988Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200989E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200990
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200991Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
992(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
993
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200994Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
995
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100996Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
997
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100998Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
999
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001000On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1001separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1002
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001003min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1004contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1005
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001006Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1007
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001008Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1009
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001010Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1011
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001012Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1013no longer support.
1014
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001015sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10164#1038)
1017
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001018+channel:
1019- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1020 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001021- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1022- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1023 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1024- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1025 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1026- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001027- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1028 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001029- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1030- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1031 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1032 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1033- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1034- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1035- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1036 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1037 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1038- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1039 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1040- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1041 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1042 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1043
1044Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001045- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1046 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1047 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1048 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001049- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1050 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001051- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1052 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1053- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1054 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1055- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1056 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1057 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1058 LC_CTYPE
1059- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1060 matches everywhere.
1061- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1062 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1063- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1064- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1065 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1066- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1067- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1068 2013 Dec 11)
1069- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1070 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1071- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1072- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1073 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1074- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1075- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1076- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1077- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1078 2015 Feb 7)
1079- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1080 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1081 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1082 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1083 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1084- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1085- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1086- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1087- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1088 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1089 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1090 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1091- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1092 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1093- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1094 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1095 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1096 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1097
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001098Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1099
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001100Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1101#1350)
1102
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001103Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11043. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1105Also see #1635.
1106
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001107Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001108Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1109use the current behavior.
1110Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001111
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001112When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1113command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1114
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001115Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1116change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001117patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1118(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001119
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001120Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1121doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1122Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001123Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001124E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1125
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001126execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001127#1141)
1128
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001129cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1130
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001131:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1132
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001133Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1134
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001135When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1136synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1137
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001138Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1139Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001140
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001141Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1142(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1143
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001144ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1145Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001146
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001147Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1148
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001149Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001150(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001151
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001152Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1153Jul 25, #948)
1154
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001155Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1156names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1157Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1158the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1159
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001160Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1161(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1162Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1163
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001164'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1165
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001166MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1167Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001168
1169Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1170Also for ":@.".
1171
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001172Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1173
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001174Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1175#1125
1176
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001177Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1178times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1179
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001180Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1181
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001182Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1183
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001184Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1185
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001186Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1187
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001188We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1189the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1190
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001191Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1192
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001193When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1194emoji_width table has only one entry.
1195
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001196It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1197Reject the value? #710.
1198
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001199When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1200Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1201
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001202Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001203Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001204
1205Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001206
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001207Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1208No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001209
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001210Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1211(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001212
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001213Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1214
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001215Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1216https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1217Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1218
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001219Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1220but the reference remains valid.
1221
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001222Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001223interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1224Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1225interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1226result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001227
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001228Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001229work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001230
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001231Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1232
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001233Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1234
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001235Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1236Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1237
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001238When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1239Apr 17) #762
1240
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001241exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1242Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1243
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001244Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1245'iskeyword' for syntax.
1246
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001247Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1248(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1249
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001250Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1251
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001252When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1253maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001254Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001255
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001256Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1257It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1258Add configure check?
1259Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1260Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1261Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1262
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001263Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1264Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1265
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001266Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1267Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1268Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1269
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001270Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1271Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1272
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001273":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1274directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1275
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001276In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1277(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1278
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001279If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
12802016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001281
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001282Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1283(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1284
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001285Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001286Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001287
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001288Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1289
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001290When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1291restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1292Do not trigger the event?
1293
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001294Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1295changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1296and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001297Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1298Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
12996, 2nd message)
1300Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001301
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001302Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1303Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1304https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1305
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001306Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1307With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1308
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001309Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001310
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001311Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1312
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001313Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001314Only remembers one error.
1315
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001316GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001317
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001318Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1319(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001320
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001321Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1322github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001323 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001324Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001325
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001326Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001327
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001328Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001329comparing individual items.
1330Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1331Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1332Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1333equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1334
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001335Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1336
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001337MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1338wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1339
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001340Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1341specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1342
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001343Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1344(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1345
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001346Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001347inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001348
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001349Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1350(Luchr, #277)
1351
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001352Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001353'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1354before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001355
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001356C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1357and also line continuation after #include.
1358I can't recommend it though.
1359
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001360Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1361(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1362
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001363To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1364library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1365
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001366When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1367is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1368
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001369Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
137030)
1371
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001372MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1373(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1374
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001375The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
137624): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001377
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001378":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1379effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1380
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001381":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
13829)
1383
1384The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1385wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1386
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001387Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001388Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001389
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001390When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1391the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1392
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001393Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001394slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1395inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1396
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001397ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
13982014 Sep 11)
1399
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001400Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1401(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1402
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001403When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1404'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1405
1406Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001407(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001408Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1409- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1410 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1411 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1412- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1413 covered by the above change.
1414So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001415same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001416Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001417
1418Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1419Work in progress.
1420
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001421Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1422when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1423
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001424Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1425Is this right?
1426
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001427Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1428(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1429Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1430
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001431Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1432Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001433
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001434Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1435Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1436
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001437Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1438
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001439When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1440filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1441initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1442
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001443Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1444
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001445Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1446OK to not block marks?
1447
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001448Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1449
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001450Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1451
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001452When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1453(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1454
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001455Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001456
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001457Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1458(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1459
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001460When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1461any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1462
1463Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001464
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001465Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001466
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001467Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1468(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1469
1470Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1471
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001472Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1473Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1474was already defined.
1475(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1476
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001477Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1478
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001479Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001480Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001481Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001482Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001483
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001484Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1485(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1486
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001487Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1488(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1489
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001490Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1491change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1492them: ":repeats".
1493
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001494Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1495
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001496When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1497these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1498window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1499
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001500Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1501should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1502history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1503Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1504
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001505"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1506Jun 8)
1507
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001508Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1509insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1510
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001511No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1512
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001513Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1514(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1515Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1516arguments.
1517
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001518Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1519
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001520Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001521
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001522Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15230x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1524New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1525compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1526
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001527Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1528a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1529
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001530xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1531buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1532Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001533Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001534Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001535Also see issue #609.
1536We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001537
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001538Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1539right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001540its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001541
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001542Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1543
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001544This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1545 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1546This neither: (ZyX)
1547 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1548
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001549'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1550Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1551from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001552
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001553Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
15542014 Jun 8)
1555
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001556Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001557Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001558Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1559Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1560User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001561- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1562 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1563 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001564- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1565- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1566 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1567 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1568 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1569 on vim.org.
1570- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1571 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1572- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1573- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1574- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1575- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1576Implementation:
1577- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1578 plugin separate.
1579- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1580 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1581 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1582- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1583 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1584- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1585 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1586 installing.
1587Out of scope:
1588- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1589- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1590 useful).
1591
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001592Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1593normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001594
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001595When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1596menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1597
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001598Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1599(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1600
1601":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1602various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001603
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001604Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001605(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1606
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001607VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1608instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1609
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001610Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001611Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001612
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001613Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001614command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001615
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001616Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1617
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001618Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1619highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001620
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001621The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1622For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1623
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001624Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001625possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001626
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001627Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001628
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001629Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1630
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010016317 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1632 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1633 "lucida_console:h8").
1634Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1635
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001636:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1637
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001638Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1639
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001640Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1641
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001642When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1643(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1644
1645Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001646Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001647
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001648GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1649(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1650
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001651Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1652registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1653
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001654Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1655
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001656The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1657(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1658Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1659
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001660The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1661- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1662- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1663
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001664Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1665Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1666reliably?
1667
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001668Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1669(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1670
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001671Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1672(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1673
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001674Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
16752013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001676
1677Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1678
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001679Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
16805)
1681
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001682Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1683carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1684
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001685Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1686highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1687
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001688Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001689
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001690Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200169128) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001692
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001693Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1694
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001695Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1696
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001697- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1698 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1699Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001700
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001701Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001702
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001703In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1704process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1705a reboot.
1706
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001707patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1708
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001709Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1710not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001712Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1713Or use expand('<sid>')?
1714
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001715Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1716
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001717Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1718
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001719b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17207)
1721
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001722Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1723compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1724
1725Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1726Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1727vim.bindeval().
1728
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001729Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17302012 Aug 4)
1731
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001732Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1733(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1734
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001735Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1736But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1737
1738Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1739Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1740Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001741
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001742Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1743loading all files.
1744
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001745MS-Windows resizing problems:
1746- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1747 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1748- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1749 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1750 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001751
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001752'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001753
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001754Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001755of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1756
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001757The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1758Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1759But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001760
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001761When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1762is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1763
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001764URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001765- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001766- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1767 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1768
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001769Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1770(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1771Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1772
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001773Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001774New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001775
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001776When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1777for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1778Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001779
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001780Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1781
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001782Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1783
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001784Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1785Apr 18)
1786
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001787Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1788And one for gui_x11.txt.
1789
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001790":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1791finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1792Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1793
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001794Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1795
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001796Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1797
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001798Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1799they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1800
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001801Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1802
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001803Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1804Nov 20)
1805
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001806Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001807Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001808
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001809`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001810(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1811
1812Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1813
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001814BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1815Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1816
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001817Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1818Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1819
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001820Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1821
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001822On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18232012 Jun 19)
1824
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001825'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1826'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1827Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001828Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001829
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001830With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1831(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1832need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1833
1834Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1835only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
183621, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1837
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001838The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1839support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1840
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001841'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1842highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1843
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001844Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1845New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1846
1847Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1848Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1849
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001850Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1851Jan 19)
1852
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001853Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1854discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1855meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001856
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001857"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001858Oct 26)
1859
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001860Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1861
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001862With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1863register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001864
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001865Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1866
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001867When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1868(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1869
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001870When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1871then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1872from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1873
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001874Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1875":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
187615)
1877
1878Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1879
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001880BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1881cleared. See test64.
1882
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001883Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001884effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001885Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001886https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001887
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001888On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
188964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1890right type.
1891
1892string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1893(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1894
1895When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1896(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001897When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1898following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1899(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001900
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001901When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1902doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1903
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001904Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1905
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001906maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1907mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1908
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001909Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1910(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1911
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001912When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1913indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1914the help file.
1915
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001916After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1917Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1918
1919Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1920
1921"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1922
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001923Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1924
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001925Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001926
1927Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19282010 Dec 18)
1929
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001930With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1931number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1932Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1933
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001934Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1935Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1936
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019378 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1938Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1939
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001940Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1941one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1942the match scrolls into view.
1943
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019447 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1945Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1946Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1947
19489 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1949 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1950Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1951
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001952Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1953Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1954
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001955In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1956or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1957sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1958
1959GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1960doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1961
1962GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1963
1964Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1965Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1966
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001967Wish for NetBeans commands:
1968 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1969
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001970Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1971
19727.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1973there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1974do?
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
197722)
1978
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001979New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1980- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001981- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001982 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1983
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001984"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
19852011 Feb 27)
1986
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001987Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1988^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1989
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001990When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1991exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
19929) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1993
1994g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1995the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1996
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001997Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1998crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1999
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002000Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2001number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2002
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002003Regexp engine performance:
2004- Profiling:
2005 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2006 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2007 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2008 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2009 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2010 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2011- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2012- Performance tests:
2013 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2014 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2015 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2016 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2017 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2018 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2019 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2020 'hlsearch'.
2021 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2022 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2023 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2024 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2025
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002026Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2027Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2028
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002029'beval' option should be global-local.
2030
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002031Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002032
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002033setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002034
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002035With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20362010 Oct 24)
2037
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002038Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2039
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002040When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2041Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2042
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002043":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2044
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002045'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2046
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002047C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2048checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2049Issue 46.
2050
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002051Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2052
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002053Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2054gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2055
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002056":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2057accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2058
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002059Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2060setwinvar().
2061
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002062Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002063
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002064When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2065instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2066
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002067Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2068Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2069Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002070
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002071Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2072back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2073
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002074Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002075Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2076
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002077CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2078the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2079FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2080
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002081Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2082Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2083
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002084Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2085Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2086
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002087I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2088Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2089an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002090
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002091Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2092
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002093Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2094non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002095
2096iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2097Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2098or replace with a character and continue?
2099
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002100Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2101Requires configure check for localtime().
2102Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2103
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002104Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2105Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2106
2107Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2108
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002109Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2110Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2111path.
2112
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002113Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002114Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002115
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002116'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2117
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002118":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2119like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2120
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002121Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2122https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002123
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002124Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21252010 Nov 5)
2126
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002127Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002128Jan 7)
2129
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002130Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2131
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002132With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2133entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2134Feb 12)
2135
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002136Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2137characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2138
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002139Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2140
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002141Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2142 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2143
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002144Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2145
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002146When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2147Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2148
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002149When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2150not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2151string value.
2152
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002153For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002154line argument -noregister.
2155
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002156When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2157missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2158
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002159When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2160doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002161
2162Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2163(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2164Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2165There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2166Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2167
2168":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2169highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2170to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2171
2172Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2173Probably needs a bit of work.
2174
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002175List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002176Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2177
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002178Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2179
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002180Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2181
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002182Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2183Sep 1)
2184
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002185Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2186
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002187Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2188on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2189
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002190Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
21912009 Jul 18)
2192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002193Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2194window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2195Needs more work.
2196
2197Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2198
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002199When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2200few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2201
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002202'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002203(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2204
2205Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2206J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2207
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002208When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2209for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2210
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002211Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2212
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002213":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2214because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2215ex_docmd.c.
2216
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002217Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002218Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2219
2220string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2221for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2222
2223Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2224
2225'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
222620)
2227
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002228Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22292009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2230
2231Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2232
2233Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2234SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2235
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002236When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2237indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2238(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2239
2240Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2241are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2242Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2243Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2244that doesn't have a window.
2245
2246When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2247doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2248
2249getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2250displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2251
2252":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2253
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002254There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2255was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2256perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2257
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002258Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2259
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002260Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2261command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2262
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002263Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2264does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2265
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002266opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2267height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002268very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002270Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2271(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2272
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002273Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002274(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002276Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2277char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2278
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002279Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2280Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2281
2282This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2283
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002284Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2285messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2286es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22872009 Jan 26)
2288
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002289When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002290in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2291Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2292
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002293Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2294a modeline.
2295
2296Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2297Sergey Khorev)
2298
2299Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2300part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002301
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002302After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2303correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2304
2305Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2306(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2307
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002308shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002309'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2310Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2311unix-like shell?
2312
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002313Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2314register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2315(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2318Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2319
2320Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2321make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2324still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2325
2326"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2327(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2328
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002329Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2330that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2331ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2332Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2333
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002334MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2335doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2336probably causes this.
2337
2338'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023392009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002340
2341Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2342 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2343 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2344(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2345
2346Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2347":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2348option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2349is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2352first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002353Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002355Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2356laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2357Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002359Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2360anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2361
2362On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2363doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2364Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2365Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2366
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002367When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2368'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2369fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2370the buffer to be unmodified.
2371Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2372another look at it.
2373
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2375(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2376
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002377You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2378error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2379Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2380at the other match for 0xBF.
2381
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002382When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2383argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2384
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002385Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2386backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2387
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002388When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2389line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2390
2391Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2392position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2393
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002394After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2395(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002396command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002397
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002398":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2399Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2400
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002401When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2402either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2403put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2404
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002405Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2406Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2407Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2408Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2409(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2412
2413ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002414
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002415Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2416(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2417escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2418an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002419This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2420July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002421Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2422work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2423
2424When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
242531)
2426
2427Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2428work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2429Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002430
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002431Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2432multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2433(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2434
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002435Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
24362008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002437Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002438
2439Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2440Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2441'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002443Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2444Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2445
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002446Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2447Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2448
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024498 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2450 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2451 several).
2452 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2453 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2454 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2455Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2456
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002457The utf class table is missing some entries:
2458 0x2212, minus sign
2459 0x2217, star
2460 0x2500, bar
2461 0x26ab, circle
2462
2463Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2464line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2465
2466GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2467Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2470try the Cocoa version.
2471
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2473changed or the window is resized.
2474
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002475GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2476the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2477
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002478Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2479Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002480
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002481Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
24821) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2485with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2486Try to reproduce at work.
2487
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002488Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2489Is there a way to list all the files first?
2490
2491When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2492result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
249316)
2494
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002495Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2496(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2497
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002498Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2499Await response to question to make the register writable.
2500
2501Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25021)
2503
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002504In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2505each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2506
2507try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2508
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002509try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2512Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002514Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2515
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2517Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2518
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002519Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2520Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2521Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002523When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2524and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2527 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2528
2529New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2530
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002531":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2532a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2533
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2535Likonen, March 19)
2536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002537Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2538other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2539
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002540The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2541appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2542matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2543
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002544When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2545character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2546'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2547(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2548
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002549Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2550Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551
2552More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2553
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002554Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2555http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2556
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002557Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2558back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2559Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002560
2561Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2562No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2563
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002564Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2565terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002566
2567Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2568
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002569Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2570but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2571that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2574Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2575
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2577popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2578size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2579This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2582it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2583
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002584Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2585then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2586files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002587Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2588indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2589":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002590in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2591quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002592Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002594When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2595parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2596neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2597particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2598Jun 3)
2599However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2600the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002602A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2603Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002605Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2606Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2607
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2609switch list is noticed:
2610 switch (i)
2611 {
2612 case 1:
2613 foobar:
2614 }
2615
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002616Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2619with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2620go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2621moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2622
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002623Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002624GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002625Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2626argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2627(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2628
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002629Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2630(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2631
2632Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2633makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2634.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002635 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002636
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002637Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26382007 Feb 8)
2639
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002640Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2641set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2646Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2647New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2648patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2649
2650Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2651Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2652
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
26542007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002656
2657Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002658label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002660Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2661with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2662Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002664Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2665
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002666Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2667Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2668only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2669
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002670Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2671Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002672Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673properly?
2674
2675Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
26762007 Jun 21)
2677
2678When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2679Jun 18)
2680
2681If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2682
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002683Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2684windows. (Adam George)
2685
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002686F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2687modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2688K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002689
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002690In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2691the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2692
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2694
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002695":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2696
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002697When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002698error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002699
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002700GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2702
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002703Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2704if_ruby.c.
2705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2707
2708The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2709it in keep_msg?
2710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002711Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002712error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002713name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2714
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002715Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2716longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002717
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002718Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2719Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2720Also for ":w" without a file name.
2721The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722
2723"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2724Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2725
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002726VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2727directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2728(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2729
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002730VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2731
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2733name?
2734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2738(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2739Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2740will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2741
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002742gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2743This also fails with --remote.
2744
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002745When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27462008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2747all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002749aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002751When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2752(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2753
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002754Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2755the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2758
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002759Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2760superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2761
2762Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2763character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002765Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2766Jun 5)
2767
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002768Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
27692008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2770Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2771
2772In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2773but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2774Jul 22)
2775
2776There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2777
2778Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2779":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2780somehow? Or use a new function.
2781
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2785moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2786that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2787
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2789
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002790When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002791cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2792the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2793
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2795 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2796 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2797 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2798
2799Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2800partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2801
2802In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2803buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2804reload it then?
2805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2807
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002808Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2809only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2810
2811Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2812tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2813doesn't contain other directories.
2814
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002815Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2816Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2817
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002818Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2819 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2820 set background=dark
2821This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2822color is, not reset it.
2823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824Linux distributions:
2825- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2826 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2827 xfree-xterm".
2828- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2829
2830Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2831start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2832show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2833middle?
2834
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002835Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2836
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002837When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2838current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2839the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2840
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002841When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2842Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2843
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002844Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2845 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2846 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2847 - getting colors in xterm
2848 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2849
2850Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2851Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2852
2853Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2854
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002855A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2856Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2857
2858Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2859Dara, 2006 June 21)
2860
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2862number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2863
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002864After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2865the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2866
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002867Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002869Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2870Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2871
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002872Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010028732008 Sep 29)
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2876check the result of has("patch13").
2877
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002878Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2879restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2880
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002881Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2882and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2885put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2886
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002887Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2888resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2889
2890In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2891can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2892
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002893GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2894maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2895doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002896Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2897visible.
2898
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002899When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2900differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2903be only one.
2904
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002905Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002906"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2907name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2908Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909
2910Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2911(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2914as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2915
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002916Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
291723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002919":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2920tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2921Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002923When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2924text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2925latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2926
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002927Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2928no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2929
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002930In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2931VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29322007 Oct 16)
2933
2934TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2935Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002937Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002939When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2940typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2941Sep 3, 11)
2942
2943When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2944respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2945the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2946what happens for the GUI.
2947
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002948":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2949this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2950
2951When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2952Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2953restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2954
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002955Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29562010 Jun 30)
2957
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002958Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2959'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2960(Kartik Agaram)
2961
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002962
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002963Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002964- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2965 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2966- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2967 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2968 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2969- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2970 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2971 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002972- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2973- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002974
2975
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002976More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002977- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2978 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002979- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002980- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2981 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2982- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2983 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2984- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2985- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2986- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2987 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2988 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002989- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002990- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2991 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2992- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2993 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2994- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2995 21)
2996- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2997 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2998- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2999 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003000- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3001 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003002- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3003 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3004 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3005 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3006 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003007- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003008
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003009Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030109 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3011 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3012 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3013 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3014 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3015 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3016 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3017 (Alan Schmitt)
3018 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003019 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3020 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030219 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003022 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030238 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030247 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3025 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3026 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030278 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003028 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030297 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003030 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3031- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3032 for multi-byte characters.
3033- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3034- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3035 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3036 been given values.
3037 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
30388 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003039 with an ESC sequence.
3040 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3041 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3042 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030437 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3044 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3045- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3046 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3047 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30488 Add functions:
3049 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3050 Update 2004 Sep 10
3051 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3052 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003053 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003054 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3055 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3056 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3057 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3058 (2003 May 13)
3059 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3060 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003061 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3062 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003063 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3064 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3065 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030667 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3067 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030687 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3069 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030708 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3071 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030727 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30738 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3074 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30757 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3076 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030777 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3078- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3079 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3080 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003081- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3082 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3083- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3084
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003085Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3086- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3087 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3088
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003089Quickfix/Location List:
3090- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3091 #2999)
3092- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3093 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3094 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3095 the quickfix buffer?
3096- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3097 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3098- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3099 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3100- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3101 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3102 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3103- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3104 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3105- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3106- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3107 2007 Jan 1)
3108- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3109 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3110- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3111 errors. How do we get the rest?
31128 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3113 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3114 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3115 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31167 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3117 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003118
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003119Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003120- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3121 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031228 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3123 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3124 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3125 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3126 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3127 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031288 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3129 make Vim exit.
31307 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3131 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3132 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31338 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3134 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3135 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31366 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3137 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3138 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31398 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3140 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3141 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3142 names in one buffer???
3143 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3144 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3145 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31467 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3147 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3148 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003149 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3150 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031517 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3152 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31537 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
31547 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031557 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3156 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3157 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3158 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31597 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31607 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31617 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3162 to the match with the tag? Option?
31637 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31647 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3165 (Sayre).
31667 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3167 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031687 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3169 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3170 match. Nvi can do it too.
31717 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3172 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3173 line 1\ line 2\\
3174 line 2\ line 3\\
3175 . line4/
31766 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3177 the way the shell is started?
31786 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3179 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3180
3181
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003182GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031839 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031848 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3185 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3186 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000031878 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3188 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3189 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031909 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3191 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3192 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3193 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003194- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3195 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3196 blocked for now.
3197
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003198
3199Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003200- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3201 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032028 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3203 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3204 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032056 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3206 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032078 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3208 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3209 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032107 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3211 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3212 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032137 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3214 2004 May 9)
32158 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3216 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3217 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3218 MS-Windows 98?
3219 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3220 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3221 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3222 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032238 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3224 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3225 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3226 doesn't work properly.
32278 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3228 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3229 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32309 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3231 button doesn't give popup menu.
3232 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3233 selection.
3234 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3235 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3236 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32378 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3238 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3239 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3240 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32418 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3242 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3243 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032447 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3245 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3246 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
32477 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3248 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003249 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032507 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3251 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032526 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32538 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3254 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3255 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32568 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3257 know which keyboard is being used?
32587 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3259 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3260 area (Koloseike).
32618 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3262 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3263 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3264 the font name).
3265
3266
3267Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032686 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3269 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3270 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3271 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3272 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032739 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3274 required and it's missing?
32758 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3276 wrong.
32779 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3278 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032799 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003280 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3281 flag.
32828 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3283 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3284 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
32858 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
32866 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3287 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3288 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3289 the tooltips work though...
32907 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3291 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
32928 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3293 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3294 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3295
3296
3297Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010032989 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3299 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033009 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3301 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3302 through files.
33037 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3304 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33054 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3306 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3307 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3308 problem during a refresh.
33095 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3310 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3311 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3312 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3313 colors as it should.
3314 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3315 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3316
3317
3318Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003319- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033207 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3321 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033228 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3323 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3324 (Phillipps)
3325
3326
3327GUI:
33289 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3329 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33309 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003331 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003332 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33339 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3334 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33358 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3336 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33378 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3338 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3339 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33408 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3341 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3342 of where it is processing the output.
3343 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33448 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3345 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033468 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033478 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3348 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3349 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033508 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3352 browse().
33538 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3354 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33558 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3356 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033577 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3358 - regexp on/off
3359 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3360 when all buffers/directory is used:
3361 - filter for file name
3362 when directory is used:
3363 - subdirectory on/off
3364 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033658 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3366 to avoid problems.
33678 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3368 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3369 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
33708 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3371 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3372 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
33738 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3374 up. Set erase character somehow?
33758 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3376 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3377 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3378 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
33798 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
33807 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3381 visible.
33827 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3383 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
33847 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3385 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
33868 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3387 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
33888 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3389 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3390 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3391 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3392- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
33934 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3394 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3395 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3396
3397
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003398Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000033998 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3400 a good fallback, thus use:
3401 $HOME
3402 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3403 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3404 $USERPROFILE
3405 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3406 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3407 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3408 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034098 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3410 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34118 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3412 Should work like in the GUI version.
34138 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3414 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34158 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3416 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34178 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3418 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3419 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034208 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3421 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3422 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3423
3424
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003425Win32 console:
34269 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3427 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3428 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3429 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3430 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3431 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3432 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3433 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3434 and the file is not saved.
3435 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3436 long name.
34378 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3438 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34397 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3440 besides the console.
34418 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34429 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3443 <C-S-i>?
34449 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3445 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34468 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3447 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003448
3449
3450Amiga:
34518 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3452 sequences.
34539 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3454 backslashes in result.
34558 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3456 all options, using white space separation.
3457
3458
3459Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003460- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034617 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3462 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3463 (Jack)
3464 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034658 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3466 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034678 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
34688 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
34699 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3470 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034719 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003472
3473
3474"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003475- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3476 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003477- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3478 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003479- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3480 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3481 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3482 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3483 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3484 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3485 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034869 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3487 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000034889 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003489 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3490 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3492 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3493 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003494 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034957 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3496 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
34978 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3498 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3499 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035007 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3501 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003502- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3503 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035048 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3505 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3506 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3507 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35087 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3509 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3510 invocations belong together.
35118 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3512 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35138 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3514 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3515 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003516 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035178 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3518 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3519 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035208 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3521 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035227 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3523 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3524 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3525 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035267 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3527 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3528 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35297 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3530 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3531 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35327 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3533 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035347 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3535 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035369 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3537 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3538 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3539 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3540 script can be called.
35418 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3542 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3543 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035448 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3545 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035468 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003547 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3548 configurable?
35498 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035508 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3551 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035528 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3553 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035548 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3555 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035569 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3557 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3558 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035597 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035608 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3561 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3562 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035638 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3564 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003565 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3566 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3568 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
35699 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3570 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3571 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003572 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035737 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3574 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035757 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3576 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3577 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3578 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035798 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003580 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3581 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3582 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3583 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003584 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3585 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003586 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003587 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003588 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3589 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3590 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3591 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3592 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035938 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3594 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
35958 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3596 in lines that don't extend into the block?
35978 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3598 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3599 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36008 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3601 'linebreak'.
36028 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3603 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3604 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036059 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3606 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3607 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3608 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36099 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3610 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036119 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36129 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3613 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3614 cause another redraw, etc.
36158 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3616 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36178 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3618 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3619 ":w!!" for that.
3620 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3621 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003622 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036237 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3624 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3625 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3626 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3627 clipboard)
36287 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3629 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3630 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036316 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3632 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3633 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036348 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3635 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36368 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3637 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3638 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000036398 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3641 (e.g., ":w").
36428 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3643 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3645 script in do_cmdline().
36468 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3647 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3648 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3649 changes.
36508 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3651 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36528 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3653 check for file marks. This can be slow.
36547 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3655 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3656 needed.
3657 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
36588 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3659 to skip catch_signals()?
36609 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3661 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3662 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3663 text?
36648 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3665 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
36668 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3667 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
36689 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3669 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3670 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3671 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3672 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
36737 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3674 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3675 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3676 in the list?
36778 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3678 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3679 instead of on button down.
36808 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
36819 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3682 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003683 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3684 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036858 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3686 character is typed.
36878 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3688 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
36898 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3690 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
36918 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3692 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3693 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3694 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3695 cygwin bash.
36967 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3697 Remember flags for backreferences.
36987 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3699 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37007 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3701 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37028 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3703 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37047 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3705 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037067 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3707 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3708 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37097 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3710 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37118 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3712 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3713 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37147 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3715 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003716
3717
3718I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37199 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3720 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3721 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722
3723
3724Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003725- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3726 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3727 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003728- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3729 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3730 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3731 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3732 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3733 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003734 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003735- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3736 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003737 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003738 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3739 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3740 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003741- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3742 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3743 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3744 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3745 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3746- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3747 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3748 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3749- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3750 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003751- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3753 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3754 character gets the highlighting.
3755- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3756 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3757- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3758 (Jennings)
3759- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003760- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003761- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003762 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003763- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3764 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3765 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3766- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3767 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3768 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3769 (Benzinger).
3770- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3771 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3772 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3773- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3774 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3775- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3776 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3777- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3778 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3779 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3780 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3781 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3782 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3783- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3784 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3785 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003786- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3787 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3788 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003789- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3790 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3791 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3792- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3793 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3794- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3795 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003796- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3797 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3798- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3799 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3800 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3801 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3802 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3803- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3804 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3805 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3806- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3807 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3808 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003809- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3810 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 +00003811- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3812 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3813 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3814 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3815 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3816- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3817 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3818
3819--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3820 *extensions-improvements*
3821
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003822Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3823- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3824 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3825 calling a function.
3826 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3827 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003828- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3829 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003830 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003831- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3832 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3833 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3834 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3835 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3836 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003837 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003838- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3839 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3840 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003841- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3842 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038438 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3844 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3845 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3846 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003847- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3848 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003849
3850
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038528 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3853 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038548 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3855 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038568 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3857 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038588 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038599 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3860 - change to cursor position and curswant
3861 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3862 - how it works for folded lines
3863 - how it works with multi-byte characters
38649 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3865 work too.
38668 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3867 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3868 text.
38698 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
38707 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3871 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38727 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3873 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003874 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3876
3877
3878Help:
3879- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3880 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3881- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3882 to the other matches.
3883- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003884- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3885 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3886 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3887 default contents.
3888- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3889 height for the help window (and other windows).
3890- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3891- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3892- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3893
3894
3895User Friendlier:
38968 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3897 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3898 Briscoe)
38998 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39008 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3901 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3902 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39038 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3904 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3905- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3906 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003907- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39089 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3909 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3910 item?).
3911 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039128 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039137 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3914 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3915 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039168 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3917 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3918 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3919 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003920
3921
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003922Tab pages:
39239 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039247 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3925 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039268 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039278 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039287 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039297 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003930 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039318 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3932 tab pages.
39337 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3934
3935
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003936Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003937- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3938 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3939- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3940 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3941 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3942- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3943 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003944- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3945 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3946 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003947- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3948 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3949 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003950- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3951 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003952- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003953 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3954 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039558 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3956 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39578 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3958 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39598 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3960 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003961 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003962 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3963 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3964 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3965 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003966- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3967 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003968- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003969- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3970 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003971- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003972 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003973- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003974 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003975- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3976 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003977- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3978 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3979- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003980 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003981 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3982 in the affix file separately.
3983 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003984 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003985 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3986 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3987 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3988- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3989 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3990 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3991 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3992 Alternative:
3993 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3994 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3995 affix which is required.
3996- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003997 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003998- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3999 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4000 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004001- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4002 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004003- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4004 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4005- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040068 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4007 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4008 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4009 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004010- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4011 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4012 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4013 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040148 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4015 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040168 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40178 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4018 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040197 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40208 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4021 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4022 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4023 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004024
4025
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004026Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040279 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4028 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040298 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004030 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004031
4032Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004033 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4034 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040358 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4036 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040378 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4038 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040398 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4040 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4041 user aware of this?
40428 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4043 commands skip over a closed fold.
40448 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40458 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040467 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004047- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4048 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4049 missing line goes unnoticed.
4050 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004051- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4052 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4053 smoother?
4054- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4055 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004056- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4057 file can contain:
4058 args version.c main.c
4059 edit version.c
4060 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004061- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004062- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4063 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004064- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4065 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004066- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4067 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004068- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004069
4070Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004071- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4072 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4073 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4074 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040759 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4076 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4077 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4078 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040799 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4080 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4081 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040828 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4083 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4084 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4085 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4086 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4087 item.
40888 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004089 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4090 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040918 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4092 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040938 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4094 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4095 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040967 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4097 so that the user can fix the problem.
40988 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4099 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041009 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41018 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041028 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41038 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041047 Searching and composing characters:
4105 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004106 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4107 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041088 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41098 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41108 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4111 characters.
41128 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41138 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4114 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41157 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4116 'display' option to specify this.
41177 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4118 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4119- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4120 fontselector somehow.
4121- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4122 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4123- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4124 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4125- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4126 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4127 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4128 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4129 if a font exists?
4130- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004131 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004132- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4133 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004134- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4135 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4136 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4137 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004138- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4139 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004140 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004141- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4142 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4143 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4144 But it's very complicated...
4145
4146
4147Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041487 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004149- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4150- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4151 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004152- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4153 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004154- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4155- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4156 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004157- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4158 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004159- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4160 units as for the margins.
4161- Support right-to-left text?
41628 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4163 color.
4164
4165
4166Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041678 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4168 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41698 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4170 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41718 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4172 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041737 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4174 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4176 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4177 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041787 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4179 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4180 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041818 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41829 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4183 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041847 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4185 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000041867 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4187 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041888 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4189 change this for each release.
41908 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4191 pattern, but not in the body.
41928 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4193 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4194 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041958 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010041968 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004197 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4198 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041998 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4200 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42018 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4202 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004203 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042048 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4205 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4206 used.
42078 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4208 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42098 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4210 re-insert the [] if possible.
42118 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4212 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042138 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4214 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4215 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4216 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4217 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4219 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42208 Support for deleting syntax items:
4221 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4222 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4223 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42248 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4225 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4226 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42277 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4228 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4229 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42307 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4231 detected.
42328 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004233 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042348 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4235 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042368 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42378 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42387 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4239 ":mkvimrc".
42408 Improve c.vim:
4241 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4242 "c_strict_ansi".
4243 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42448 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4245 current line while in Insert mode.
42468 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4247 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42488 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4249 display position.
42508 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4251 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4252 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42538 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4254 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4255 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042567 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4257 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4258 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4259 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4260 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042617 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4262 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4263 E.g. for this html:
4264 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042657 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
42667 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4267 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042688 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42698 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042707 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4271 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4272 completion?
42738 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4274 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42757 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4276 select one of the sets.
42778 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4278 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4279 2, etc.
42808 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4281 highlighting (for "." command).
42828 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4283 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42848 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42857 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4286 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
42876 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4288 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4289- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4290 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4291- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004292- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4293 (for comment blocks).
4294- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4295 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4296 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4297 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4298 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4299 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4300 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4301 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4302 (Campbell)
4303 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4304 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43057 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4306 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43077 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4308 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4309 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43107 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4311 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4312 messages. And external commands?
43138 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4314 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43157 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4316 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4317
4318
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004319Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043208 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4321 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004322 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043237 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4324 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4325 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043268 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4327 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004328- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4329 2006 Dec 11.
4330- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043318 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4332 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4333 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4334 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4335 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4336 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043377 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4338 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043408 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4341 can be the plugin name.
4342 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4343 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043447 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4345 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4346 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4347 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4348 autocommand.
4349 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4350 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4351 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4352 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043537 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4354 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043556 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4356 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043578 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004358 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4359 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004360 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4361 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4362 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004363 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4364 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4365 3 2002
4366 Only add this when also implemented for
4367 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4368 be used.
4369 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004370 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4371 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4372 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4373 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4374 File.Open..." argument.
4375 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4376 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4377 with properties instead.
4378 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4379 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4380 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004381 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004382 crypt() encrypt string
4383 decrypt() decrypt string
4384 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4385 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004386 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004387 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004388 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004389 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004390 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004391 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4392 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004393 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4394 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004395 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004396 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4397 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4398 to allow the library to execute a command or
4399 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044007 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4401 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44028 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4403 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044048 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4405 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044068 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044079 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004408 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44096 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044108 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4411 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044128 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4413 option or environment variable.
44148 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044158 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004416 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044177 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4418 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044198 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4420 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44218 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44228 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4423 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4424 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4425 charwise({expr}).
44267 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4427 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4428 buffer for this?
4429 result = scratch(string, command)
4430 result = apply(string, command)
4431 result = execute(string, command)
4432 "command" would use <> notation.
4433 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44347 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004435
4436
4437Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044386 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4439 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4440 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4441 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4442 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4443 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4444 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445
4446
4447Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044487 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4449 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044507 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4451 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4452 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4453 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044548 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4455 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4456 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4457 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004458 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044598 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44609 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44618 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44627 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4463 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44648 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4465 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4466 when starting up in a color terminal.
44678 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4468 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044698 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4470 function be improved?
44718 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4472 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4473 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4474 this be improved?
44758 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4476 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044777 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4478 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044797 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4480 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44817 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4482 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044837 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4484 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4485 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4486 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4487 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4488 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4489 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044908 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4491 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4492 using strcmp() too often?
44937 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4494 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4495 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4496 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4497 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4498 the two blocks to the memfile block.
44997 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4500 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4501 with an argument that can be messed with.
4502 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4503 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45047 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4505- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45068 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4507 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4508- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4509 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4510- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4511- Do profiling on:
4512 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004513 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4514 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4515 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4516 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4517 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4518 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004519 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045207 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4521 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4522 changed).
4523 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4524 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4525- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4526- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4527 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4528- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4529 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4530 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004531- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4532- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4533 cursor is right of the screen.
45348 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4535 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4536
4537
4538Code size:
45398 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4540- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4541 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45428 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45438 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4544 it.
45457 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4546 left out.
45478 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4548 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045498 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550
4551
4552Messages:
45538 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4554 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45558 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4556 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45578 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4558 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004559- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4560 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4561- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045628 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4563 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045649 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4565 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4566 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4567 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4568 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4570 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45718 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4572 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4573 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4574 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4575 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4576 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004577- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004578 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045798 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4580 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4581 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4582 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4583 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4584 error messages, printing text, etc.
45858 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4586 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4587 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4588
4589
4590Screen updating:
45917 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4592 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4593 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4594- screen_line():
4595 - insert/delete character stuff.
4596 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4597- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4598 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4599- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4600 waiting for a character.
46018 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4602 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4603 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004604
4605Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046068 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046076 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4608- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4609 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4610 windows.
46117 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4612 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4613 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4614- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4615 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4616 (Goldfarb)
4617- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4618 bound windows.
4619- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4620 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004621- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4623 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4624 of lines but not with a single line).
4625
4626
4627Autoconf:
46288 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46298 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4630 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4631- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4632 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4633- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4634- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4635- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4636
4637
4638Perl interface:
46398 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046407 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46417 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46426 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4643
4644
4645Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046468 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4647 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046486 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4649 :libload internal-name libname
4650 :libunload internal-name
4651 :liblist
4652 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4653 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4654 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46556 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4656
4657
4658Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046599 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4660 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4661 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4662 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4663 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046648 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4665 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4666 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004667 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004668 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046697 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4670 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4671 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046728 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46738 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4674 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046757 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4676 window for each tag.
46777 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46787 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4679 bottom" search message.
46807 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4681 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4682 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004683- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4684- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004685- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4686 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4687 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046887 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4689 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4690 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4691 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
46927 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4693 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4694 :tagargs clear
4695 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4696 matching).
46977 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4698 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4699 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4700 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47017 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4702 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47037 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4704 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4705 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004706
4707
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004708Win32 GUI:
47098 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4710 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047117 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4712 (Mike McCollister)
47138 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4714 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4715 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4716 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4717 common part of the path.
47188 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47198 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4720 gettext and menus work.
47218 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4722 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004723 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004724 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47258 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4726 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47278 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4728 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47297 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4730 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47317 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47327 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47337 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4734 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4735 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4736 prompts.
47377 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4738 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4739 the file added into an already running Vim.
47407 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4741 functions to find the window title.
4742
4743
4744GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047458 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004746- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4747 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47487 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47498 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47506 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47518 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4752 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47539 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47547 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47558 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4756 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47578 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4758 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4759 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47608 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4761 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47628 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4763 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4764 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4765 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047667 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47678 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4768 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047697 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4770 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4771 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047728 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47738 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004774 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047758 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47768 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47778 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4778 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4779 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47807 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4781 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4782 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47837 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4784 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47857 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4786 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4787 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4788 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047897 Should support multi-column menus.
4790- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4791 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4792- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
47938 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
47946 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4795 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
47967 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
47977 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4798 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4799 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48007 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48018 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4802 name can be chosen free.
48037 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4804 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48056 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4806 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4807 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4808 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4809 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4810 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4811 things.
48127 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4813 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048147 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004815 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004816- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4817 where it was started from?
48187 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4819
4820
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004821Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048229 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4823 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004824- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048258 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4826 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4827 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4828 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48298 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4830 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048317 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4832 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4833 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4834 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048357 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048368 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4837 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4839 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4840 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048417 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4842 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4843 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048448 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4845 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4846 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048478 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4848 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048498 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048506 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4851 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048527 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048537 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004854 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4855 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4856 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048575 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4858 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4859 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48607 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4861 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4862 file.
48638 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4864 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4865 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004866- Add events to autocommands:
4867 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004868 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004869 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4870 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004871 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004872 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004873 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4874 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4875 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4876 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004877 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004878 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4879 the char.
4880 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4881 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4882 file from CVS).
4883 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4884 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4885 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4886 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4887 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4888 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004889 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4890 changes.
4891 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4892 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004893- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004894 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004895 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004896 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4897 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4898 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4899 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4900 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4901
4902
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004903Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004904- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4905 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004906- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4907 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4908 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4909 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4910 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004911- Ideas from others:
4912 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4913 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4914 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4915 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4916 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4917 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4918 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4919 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4920 Uses Perl for C++.
4921 Uses ctags to find the info:
4922 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4923 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4924 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4925 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4926 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4927 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004928 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004929 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4930- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4931
4932
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004933Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004934- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049357 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4936 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049377 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4938 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4939 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049408 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4941 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49429 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4943 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4944 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049458 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4946 - ignore/match case
4947 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049488 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4949 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4950 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4951 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4952 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4953 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049548 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049557 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4956 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049578 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4958 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4959 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4960 Should work for C++ and Java.
4961 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49627 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49637 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4964 instead of words.
49658 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
49668 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4967 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49688 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4969 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004970- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4971 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4973 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4974 wildcards in the file name)?
4975- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4976- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4977- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4978 be in another file).
4979- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4980- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4981- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4982 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4983- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4984- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4985- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004986- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4987
4988
4989Command line editing:
49907 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4991 line.
49928 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4993 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4994 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4995- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4996 lines wraps to start of line).
4997- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4998 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4999 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5000 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5001 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5002 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5003 cmdwin does now already.
5004 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5005 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5006 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5007 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5008 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5009 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5010 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5011 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5012 Problems:
5013 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5014 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5015 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5016 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5017 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5018 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5019 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5020 character in first column?
5021 - Implementation ideas:
5022 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5023 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5024 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5025 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5026 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5027 Mode.
5028
5029
5030Command line completion:
50318 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50328 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5033 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50348 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5035 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050368 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5037 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050387 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5039 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005040- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5041- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5042 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050438 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5044 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50457 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5046 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5047- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5048 identifiers (Webb).
50498 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5050 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50517 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5052 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5053- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5054 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5055- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5056 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5057 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058
5059
5060Command line history:
5061- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5062 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5063 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005064 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005065- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5066 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5067
5068
5069Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050709 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5071 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5072 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050738 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5074 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5075 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5076 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5077 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050788 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5079 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5080 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050817 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5082 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005083- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050847 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5085 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5086- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5087 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5088 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5089 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5090 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5091 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5092- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5093 Normal mode.
5094- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5095 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5096 are used.
5097- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5098- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5099- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5100
5101
5102'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051039 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5104 char * veryLongName =
5105 "very long string"
5106 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051078 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051088 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5109 long_type foo =
5110 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051118 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5112 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005113 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051148 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5115 func(
5116 new String[] {
5117 "asdf",
5118 "asdf"
5119 }
5120 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051218 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5122 (Chow Loong Jin)
5123 namespace {
5124 int
5125 func(int arg) {
5126 }
5127 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051286 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5129 func( arg1
5130 , arg2
5131 , arg3
5132 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051337 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005134 func(
5135 int x) // indent like "(4"
5136 {
5137 if (a
5138 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051399 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5140 if (a)
5141 {
5142 if (b)
5143 {
5144 // {
5145 }
5146 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005147 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5148 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5149 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005150- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005151 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51527 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5153- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5154 line).
5155- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5156- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5157 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005158- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5159 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5160- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5161 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5162- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5163- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5164 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51658 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5166 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5167 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5168- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5169- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5170 lines start with "\item".
5171- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5172 /* here is a comment that
5173 is just autoindented, and
5174 nothing else */
5175- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51767 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5177 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5178 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005179 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005180
5181
5182Java:
51838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5184 Odendahl?
51858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5186 "[i" commands and friends.
5187- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5188 (Jason)
5189- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5190 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5191
5192
5193'comments':
51948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5195 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5196 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5197 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005198 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5199 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052007 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5201 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52027 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52036 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5204 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5205 regexp is used.
52068 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5207 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5208
5209
5210Virtual edit:
52118 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5213
5214
5215Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052168 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052178 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052188 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005219 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052208 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5221 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005222 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5223 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052248 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052258 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5226 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5228 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5229 the end of the line or before a ".".
52307 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5231 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52327 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5233 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052346 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52355 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5236 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5237 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5238 cursor is on.
5239
5240
5241Select mode:
52428 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5243 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52447 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005245 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052467 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5247 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5248 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5249 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5250 normal_cmd().
5251 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5252 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5253
5254
5255Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052568 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5257 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005258- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5259 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5260 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005261- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5262 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5263 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052648 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005265 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005266 where needed.
52677 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5268 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52697 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5270 of each selected line.
52718 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52728 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5273 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5274 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52758 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5276 Ben Godfrey)
52777 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5278 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52797 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5280 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052817 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005282 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005283 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52848 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5285 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52867 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5287 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5288 option!
52897 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5290 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5291 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5292 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5293 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5294 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5295 without changing the column.
52966 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052977 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5298 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052996 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5300 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53016 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053026 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005303 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005304 or other special character.
53056 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5306
5307
5308More advanced repeating commands:
5309- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005310- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005311- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005312 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5313 "y." will repeat last yank.
5314 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5315 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5316 and/or pick an older command.
5317- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5318
5319
5320Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053218 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5322 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5323 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53248 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53257 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5326 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053278 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5328 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53298 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053307 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053318 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5332 entering search strings.
53338 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5334 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5335 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053368 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5337 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053387 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053397 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5340 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053416 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5342 abbreviations are to be used.
5343- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5344 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5345 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005346- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5347 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5348 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5349 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5350 Or implicit:
5351 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005352- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5353 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5354 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005355- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5356 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5357- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5358 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53596 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5360 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5361 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5362 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005363- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5364 non-replace Insert mode?
5365- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005366- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5367- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5368 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5369- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005370 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5372 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5373- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5374- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5375 ":freekeys".
5376- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5377
5378
5379Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005380- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5381 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5382- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5383 folds when going to another line.
5384 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5385- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5386 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005387- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5388 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5389 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005390- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5391 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5392 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5393 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020053949 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5395 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396
5397
5398Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053999 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054008 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005401 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005402 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005403 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005404 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054059 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5406 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054078 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5408 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054098 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5410 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5411 Perl does it this way:
5412 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5413 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5414 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5415 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054168 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5417 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5418 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054197 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5420 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054218 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5422 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054237 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005424 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5425 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5426 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054277 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005428 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054297 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5430 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054318 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5432 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54338 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5434 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054357 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005436 example.
54378 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5438 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5439- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5440 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5441 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5442 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054438 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5444 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5445 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54467 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5447 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054487 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5449 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054508 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5451 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054528 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5453 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054548 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5455 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5456 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5457 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005458- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5459 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5461 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5462- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5463 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5464 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5465 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054668 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5467 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005468- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5469 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054708 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5471 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5472 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005473- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5474 i ignore case
5475 I use case
5476 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5477 v use Vi regexp syntax
5478 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5479 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5480 Perl uses these too:
5481 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5482 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5483 o compile only once (Perl only)
5484 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5485 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5486 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5487 following command.
5488 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5489- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5490 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5491 for search string)?
54927 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5493 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5494- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5495 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5496- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5497 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5498- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5499- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005500 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501 a for the next file in the argument list
5502 f for file in the buffer list
5503 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005504 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5505 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5507 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5508- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055097 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005510 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055117 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5512 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5513 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5514 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55156 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5516 effects.
55177 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5518 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5519 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055207 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005521 Also ":dselect".
5522
5523
5524Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055259 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5526 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5527 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055289 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5529 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055308 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5531 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055328 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5533 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5534 timestamp?
5535 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5536 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005537- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5538 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005539- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5540 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5541 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55428 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5543 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5544 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5545 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55468 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5547 only remember the lines that really changed.
55487 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5549 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5550 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5551 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005552- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5553 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5554- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5555 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5556- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5557 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5558 [-99].
5559- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5560- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5562 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5563
5564
5565Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055667 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5567 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5568 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5569 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
55708 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5571 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55728 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5573 inode too.
55747 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005575 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5576 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055777 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5578 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5579- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5580 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5581- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5582 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55837 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5584 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55857 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5586 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55878 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055887 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5589 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055908 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5591 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5592 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593
5594
5595Swap (.swp) files:
55968 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5597 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5598 there are short file name problems.
55998 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5600 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56018 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56028 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005603 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005604 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5605 file the same as the actual file?
5606 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056077 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5608 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56097 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005610 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005611 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5612 enough room.
56137 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5614 or /var/preserve.
5615- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5616 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5617- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005618 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005619- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5620 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5621 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5622 cached list of which line is where.
5623
5624
5625Viminfo:
56267 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5627 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5628 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056298 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5630 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5631 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056328 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5633 name. (Schild)
56348 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56358 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056368 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056378 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5638 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5639 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5640 this?
56417 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56427 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5643 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56446 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5645 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5646 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5647- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5648 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5649
5650
5651Modelines:
56528 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5653 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5654 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005655- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5656 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5657 'shiftwidth'.
5658- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5659 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5661 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5662 modeline setting.
5663- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5664 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5665- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5666 .cpp files.
5667- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5668 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5669- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5670 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5671
5672
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005673Sessions:
56748 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5675 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56767 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5677 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056788 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5679 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056808 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5681 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5682 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056837 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5684 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056857 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005686
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005687
5688Options:
56897 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5690 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056918 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5692 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5693 also be supported.
56948 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5695 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5696 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56977 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005698
5699
5700External commands:
57018 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5702 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57034 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5704 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5705 -f).
57064 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57074 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5708 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57094 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5710
5711
5712Multiple Windows:
57137 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57148 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5715 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57167 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5717 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5718 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057197 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5720 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057217 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5722 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057236 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5724 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005725 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005726 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57277 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5728 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5729 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5730 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5731- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5732 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5733 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5734 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5735
5736
5737Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057388 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057398 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5740 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057418 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 +000057428 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5743 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57448 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5745 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5746 the mark was set.
57477 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5748 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5749 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5750 ":browse marks"?
57516 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057527 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5753 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57547 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5755 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57567 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5757 command).
57587 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5759 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5760 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5761 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57625 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5763 mappings.
57646 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5765 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5766 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5767
5768
5769Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057707 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005771 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005772- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5773 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057748 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057757 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5776 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5777
5778
5779Writing files:
5780- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5781 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5782 shortname conversion.
57838 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57848 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5785 file.
57868 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5787 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5788 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057896 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5790 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57916 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5792 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57936 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5794 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057958 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005796 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57977 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5798 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
57997 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5800 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5801 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5802 waiting for a character to be typed).
58038 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5804 line of the window, like "[time]".
5805 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5806 Automatic and/or with a command.
5807
5808
5809Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058108 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5811 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058128 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005813 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5814- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5815- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58168 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5817 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005818- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819 :s///N substitutes N times.
5820- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5821 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5822 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58237 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5824 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5825 last line column 5.
58265 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5827 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5828 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5829 (Stanislav Sitar)
5830
5831
5832Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058338 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58347 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58358 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5836 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5837 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005838- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5839- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5840 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5841- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5842- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5843
5844
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005845Argument list:
58466 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5847 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5848 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58496 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5850
5851
5852Registers:
58538 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058548 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5855 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5856 for every line.
58576 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5858 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5859 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5860- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5861 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5862- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5863 leader when line wraps?
5864- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5865 line in the range.
5866- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5867 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58688 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5869 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005870
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005871
5872Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058738 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058748 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058757 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58767 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5877
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005878Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058797 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5880 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5881 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5882 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5883 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5884 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5885 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005886 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058877 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5888 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058897 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5890 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058918 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5892 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058937 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5894 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5895 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005896- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005897 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058987 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5899 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59008 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059017 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5902 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59038 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5904 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059056 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059068 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5907 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5908 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5909 in this Vim.
59108 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005911 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059128 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5913 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5914 have it apply to the following command.
59158 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5916 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5917 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5918 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059197 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5920 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059217 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5922 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5923 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5924 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059256 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59268 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59279 Support ACLs on more systems.
59287 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5929 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059307 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5931 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5932 (truncated to fit in the space).
59337 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59348 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59358 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5936 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059377 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005938 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59397 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5940 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059417 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059427 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59437 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059448 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59458 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5946 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5947 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5948 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59498 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059508 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059518 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5952 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5953 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5954 does something like this. (Shah)
59557 Use growarray for replace stack.
59567 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5957 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59583 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059597 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5960 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059617 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5962 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005963- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5964- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5965- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5966- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59677 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5968 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5969- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5970 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005971- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005972- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5973 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5974- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5975 call "play newbeep.au").
5976- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5977 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5978 (Bhatt).
5979- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5980 blockwise registers).
5981- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5982 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5983- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5984 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5985 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5986 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005987- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059887 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5989 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5990- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5991 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5992 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5993 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5994 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059958 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5996 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059978 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5998 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5999 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6000 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6001 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6002- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006003- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060047 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6005 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6006- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6007 not in column 1.
60086 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6009 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60107 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6011- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006012- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006013 :redir #> bufname
6014 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006015- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6016 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006017- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6018 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6019 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60206 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6021 console? (Klaus Hast)
6022- Add :delcr command:
6023 *:delcr*
6024 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6025 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6026 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6027 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6028 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006029 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006030- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6031- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6032 characters from 'isprint'.
6033- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6034- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6035 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6036- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6037 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6038 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6039- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6040- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6041 Nvi).
6042- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6043 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60447 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6045- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6046 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60476 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6048- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6049 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6050 macro).
6051- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006052- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6053 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6054- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60558 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006056- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6057- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6058- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6059 if it is not the first or last window.
6060- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6061 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60627 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6063 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6064 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6065- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6066- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006067 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006068 many percent down the windows).
6069- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6070 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6071 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006072 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006073- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6074 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6075- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6076 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6077- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6078- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6079- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6080 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060818 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6082 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6083 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6084 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6085 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006086- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6087 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6088- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006089 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6090- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006091 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6092 (Webb).
6093- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006094 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006095- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6096 hex codes like 0xff).
6097- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6098 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6099 the last TYPED command.
6100- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6101- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6102- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6103 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006104- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061058 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6106 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6107 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006108- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006109 trailing '.'.
6110- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6111 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6112 find_file_in_path().
6113- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6114 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6115- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6116- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6117 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6118- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006119 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6121 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6122 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006123- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6124- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6125- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6126 to the minimal size.
6127- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6128- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6129- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6130- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6131- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006132- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6133 entered)?
6134- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6135 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006136- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006137- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6138- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6139- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6140- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6141- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6142 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006143- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061448 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6145 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6146 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6147 or in octal.
61487 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6149 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006150- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6152- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6153- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6154 insert line command).
6155- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6156- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6157- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6158- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6159- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6160 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006161- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006162 yet.
6163- Implement 'redraw' option.
6164- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6165 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061667 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6167 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006168 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6169 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061708 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6171 do it.
6172- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6173- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6174 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6175- Add text justification option.
6176- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6177- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6178 off".
6179- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6180- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6181- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006182 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006184- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006185- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6186 commands.
6187- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6188- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6189- :table command (Webb)
6190- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006191- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6192- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6193- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6194- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6195- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6196 (Demirel).
6197- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6198- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6199 for use in macro's and the like.
6200- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006201 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006202- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006203 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006204- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006205 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006206 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6207- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6208 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006209- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006210 mkopttab to make option table?
6211- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6212 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6213- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6214 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006215- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6217- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6218 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062208 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6221 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6222 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6223 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6224 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062258 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6226 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6227 (Netherton)
62286 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6229 space after "(", for example.
62305 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6231 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6232 (Servatius Brandt)
6233
6234
6235From Elvis:
6236- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6237- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238- Search patterns:
6239 \@ match word under cursor.
6240 but do:
6241 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6242 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62438 ":window" command:
6244 :win + next window (up)
6245 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6246 :win - previous window (down)
6247 :win -- idem, wrapping
6248 :win nr to window number "nr"
6249 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62507 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6251 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6252
6253
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006254From xvi:
6255- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6256- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6257
6258
6259From vile:
6260- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6261- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6262 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6263
6264
6265Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006266- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6267 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006268 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006269 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6270 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006271- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6272 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6273- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6274 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6275 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6276 current layout mirrored.
6277- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6278- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6279 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6280- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6281- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6282 font in each top-level window.
6283- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6284- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6285- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6286- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6287 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6289 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6290- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6291 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62924 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6293 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6294 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6295 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006296 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006297 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6298 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6299- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6300 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6301 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6302
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006303vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006304vim: set fo+=n :