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Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Aug 22
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
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020038- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
39 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010040- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010041- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
42 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010043- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010044 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010045- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020046- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
47- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
48 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020049- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020050- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
51 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
52 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020053
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020054Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020055More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
56
57Patch for:
58 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
59Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Aug 18
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +020060
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020061Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
62(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
63Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
Bram Moolenaardb6ea062014-07-10 22:01:47 +020064
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020065Patch to fix a problem with breakindent. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Aug 17)
66It's actually not a breakindent problem. With test: Aug 19.
67With renamed test: Aug 20
68
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020069Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
70work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020071
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020072ml_get error when using Python, issue 248.
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +020073
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020074Patch to fix typos in help files. (Dominique, 2014 Aug 9)
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +020075
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020076Way to reproduce problem that characters are put on the screen twice in Insert
77mode when using system(). (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Aug 9)
78Related to setting TMODE_COOK. Perhaps we can omit that for system()?
79
80Update for Romanian spell file. (Vanilla Ice, 2014 Aug 13)
81
82Patch to remove ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE, it causes Chinese characters not to show
83up. (Paul Moore, 2014 Jul 30)
84Should it depend on the Windows version? Waiting for feedback.
85No longer needed after including DirectX patch?
86
87Patch by Marcin Szamotulski to add count to :close (2014 Aug 10, update Aug
8814)
89 Make ":1close" close the first window.
90 Make ":+1close" close the next window.
91 Make ":-1close" close the previous window.
92Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
93":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
94Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
95
96Patch by Marcin Szamotulski to add +cmd to buffer commands.
97(2014 Aug 18)
98
99Patch to fix that system() with empty input fails. (Olaf Dabrunz, 2014 Aug 19)
100
101When using a visual selection of multiple words and doing CTRL-W_] it jumps to
102the tag matching the word under the cursor, not the selected text.
103(Patrick hemmer)
104Patch by Christian, 2014 Aug 8.
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200105
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200106Completion for :buf does not use 'wildignorecase'. (Akshay H, 2014 May 31)
107
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200108Patch to handle list with some items locked. (ZyX, 2014 Aug 17)
109Prefer the second solution.
110
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100111":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
112directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
113
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200114Patch to add a special key name for K_CURSORHOLD. (Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Aug
11510)
116
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200117The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches() but can't be
118set with setmatches(). (lcd47, 2014 Jun 29)
119
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100120Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100121
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200122Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200123
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200124Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
125inconsistant with the documentation.
126
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200127MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
128(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
129
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200130Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
131
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100132Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100133
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200134"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
135Jun 8)
136
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100137No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
138
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200139Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100140
141PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
142
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200143Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
1440x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
145New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
146compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
147
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200148Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
149Also fixes wrong result from executable().
150Update from Ken Takata, 2014 Jan 10. Newer 2014 Apr 3.
151
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200152Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
153More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200154
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200155The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
156iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
157Patch by Ben Fritz, 2014 Jun 22.
158
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200159Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
160right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
161it's height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200162
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100163Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
164What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
165
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100166This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
167 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
168This neither: (ZyX)
169 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
170
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200171'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
172Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
173from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100174
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200175Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
1762014 Jun 8)
177
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100178Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
179Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
180Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
181User view:
182- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
183 the files before deciding to install.
184- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
185- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
186 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
187 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
188 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
189 on vim.org.
190- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
191 there. Can manually update when really needed.
192- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
193- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
194- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
195- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
196Implementation:
197- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
198 plugin separate.
199- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
200 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
201 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
202- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
203 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
204- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
205 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
206 installing.
207Out of scope:
208- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
209- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
210 useful).
211
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200212Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
213normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100214
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200215CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
216when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
217
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200218When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
219menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
220
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200221Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
222(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
223
224":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
225various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100226
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200227patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
228(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
229
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200230Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
231Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
232
233Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
23430)
235
236Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
237Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
238Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
239
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200240VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
241instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
242
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100243Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200244Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100245
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200246Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", whould be ":edit". Complete to the matching
247command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100248
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100249Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
250
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200251Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24)
252
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100253Patch to make test 100 work on MS-Windows. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Dec 12)
254
255Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
256
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100257Perl: support for Activestate perl 5.18: Issue 170.
258
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100259Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
260highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100261
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100262Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
263Issue 28.
264
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200265Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100266
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100267Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200268possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 16)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100269
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100270Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
271
272Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200273
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100274Some quickfix messages appear twice. (Gary Johnson, 2014 Feb 16)
275Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Feb 17.
276
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200277Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
278
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100279Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
280
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200281With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
2822013 Sep 5)
283
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100284Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100285Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100286
287Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
2883. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
289
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200290/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
291
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002927 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
293 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
294 "lucida_console:h8").
295Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
296
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200297:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
298
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200299Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100300names.
301(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100302Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200303
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200304Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200305With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200306
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100307Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
308(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
309
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200310Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
311
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200312Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
313
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100314When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
315(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
316
317Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
318Dec 13.
319
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200320Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
321Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
322
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100323Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
324buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
325
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100326Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
327(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
328
329":sign-jump" uses first window in buffer instead of current window.
330Patch by James McCoy, 2013 Nov 22.
331
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200332GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
333(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
334
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100335Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
336registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
337
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200338Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
339
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200340The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
341(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
342Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
343
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200344The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
345- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
346- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
347
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100348Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
349Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
350reliably?
351
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200352Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
353That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
354Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
35517)
356Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200357Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200358
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100359Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
360correctly. Issue 91.
361
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100362Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
363(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
364
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100365Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
366(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
367
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02003688 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
369 defined.
370Issue 28.
371
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200372Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
3732013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100374
375Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
376
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200377Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
3785)
379
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200380Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
381carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
382
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200383Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
384highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
385
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100386Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200387
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200388Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200389May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
390May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200391May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200392
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200393Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020039428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200395
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200396Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
397optional. (2013 Jul 12)
398
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200399Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
400
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200401Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
402functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200403Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200404Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200405Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200406
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100407Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
408
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200409MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
410the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
411
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100412Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100413
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200414- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
415 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
416Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200417
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200418Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200419
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100420'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
421
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200422Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
423Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
424
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200425In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
426process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
427a reboot.
428
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100429Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100430Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
431Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100432Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100433
434Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
435cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
436
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100437patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
438
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100439Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
440I can't reproduce it.
441
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100442Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
443not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100444
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200445Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
446Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
447
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200448Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
449Or use expand('<sid>')?
450
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100451Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
452
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100453Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100454
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200455Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
456signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
457
458Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
459
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200460Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
461insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
462Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
463
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100464Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
465
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100466b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
4677)
468
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200469Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
470compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
471
472Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
473Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
474vim.bindeval().
475
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200476Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
4772012 Aug 4)
478
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100479Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
480(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
481
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100482Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
483But use Gnome instead of GTK?
484
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200485Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
486Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
487
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100488Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
489Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
490Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200491
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200492Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
493
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200494Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
495loading all files.
496
497Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
498line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
499after starting up?
500
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200501Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
502location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
503
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02005048 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
505 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
506
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200507MS-Windows resizing problems:
508- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
509 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
510- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
511 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
512 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100513
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200514'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200515
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200516Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200517of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
518
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200519Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
520
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100521Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200522Also question if examples are correct.
523
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200524The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
525Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
526But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200527
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200528Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
529Aug 16)
530
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100531When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
532is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
533
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200534xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
535enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
536
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100537URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100538- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100539- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
540 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
541
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200542Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200543New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200544
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100545When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
546for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
547Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100548
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200549Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
550
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200551Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
55224)
553
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200554Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
555
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100556Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
557
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200558Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
559Apr 18)
560
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200561Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
562And one for gui_x11.txt.
563
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100564":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
565finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
566Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
567
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200568Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
569
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100570Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
571
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200572Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
573they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
574
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100575Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
576
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100577Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
578Nov 20)
579
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200580Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200581Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200582
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100583`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100584(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
585
586Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
587
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100588BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
589Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
590
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100591Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
592Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
593
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100594Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
595
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100596Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
597Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
598
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200599Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
600
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200601On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
6022012 Jun 19)
603
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200604'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
605'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
606Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200607Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200608
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200609With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
610(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
611need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
612
613Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
614only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
61521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
616
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200617'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
618highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
619
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100620Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
621New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
622
623Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
624Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
625
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100626Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
627Jan 19)
628
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200629Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
630Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
631Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200632
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200633"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100634Oct 26)
635
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200636Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
637
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200638With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
639register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200640
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200641Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
642
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200643When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
644(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
645
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100646Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
647Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
648
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200649Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
650doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
651Jun 17)
652
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100653When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
654then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
655from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
656
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200657Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
658":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
65915)
660
661Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
662
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200663BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
664cleared. See test64.
665
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200666Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
667
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200668Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200669effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200670Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
671
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200672Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200673Update Aug 16 (email).
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200674
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200675On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
67664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
677right type.
678
679string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
680(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
681
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200682Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
683
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200684When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
685(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200686When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
687following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
688(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200689
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200690When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
691doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
692
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100693Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
694
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006957 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
696Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
697
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200698maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
699mapping, how to restore the script ID?
700
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200701Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
702(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
703
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200704When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
705indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
706the help file.
707
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200708After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
709Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
710
711Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
712
713"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
714
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200715Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
716May 24) Update May 26.
717
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100718Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
719
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200720Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200721
722Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
7232010 Dec 18)
724
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200725With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
726number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
727Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
728
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200729Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
730Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
731
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02007328 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
733Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
734
7358 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
736 after typing something.
737Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
738function that resets did_cursorhold.
739Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
740
7417 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
742Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
743Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
744
7459 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
746 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
747Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
748
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200749Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
750Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
751
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200752In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
753or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
754sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
755
756GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
757doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
758
759GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
760
761Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
762Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
763
764Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
765
7667.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
767there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
768do?
769
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200770Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
77122)
772
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100773New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
774- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200775- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100776 the maximum repeat for * and +?
777
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100778"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
7792011 Feb 27)
780
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200781Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
782^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
783
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100784'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
785way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
786
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100787When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
788exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
7899) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
790
791g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
792the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
793
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100794Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
795crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
796
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200797Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
798number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
799
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200800Regexp engine performance:
801- Profiling:
802 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
803 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
804 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
805 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
806 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
807 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
808- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
809- Performance tests:
810 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
811 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
812 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
813 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
814 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
815 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
816 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
817 'hlsearch'.
818 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
819 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
820 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
821 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
822
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200823Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
824names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
825Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
826the system encoding (usually utf-8).
827
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100828Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010082926, update 2013 Dec 14)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100830
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200831Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
832Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
833
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200834'beval' option should be global-local.
835
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100836Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200837
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200838setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200839
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02008407 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
841 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
842 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
843
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200844With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
8452010 Oct 24)
846
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100847Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
848Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
849
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200850Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
851
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200852When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
853Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
854
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200855":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
856
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200857'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
858
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100859C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
860checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
861Issue 46.
862
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200863Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
864
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100865Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
866gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
867
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200868":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
869accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
870
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200871Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
872setwinvar().
873
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100874Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
875
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100876When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
877(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
878
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200879Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200880(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200881
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200882When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
883instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
884
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200885Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
886Winckler, 2011 May 11)
887Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100888
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100889Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
890back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
891
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100892Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200893Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
894
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100895CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
896the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
897FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
898
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200899Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
900Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
901
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200902Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
903Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
904
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100905I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
906Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
907an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100908
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200909Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
910
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100911Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
912non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100913
914iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
915Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
916or replace with a character and continue?
917
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100918Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
919Requires configure check for localtime().
920Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
921
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100922Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
923Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
924
925Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
926
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100927Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
928Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
929path.
930
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100931Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200932Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100933
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200934'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
935
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200936":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
937like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100939Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200940Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
941
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100942Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
9432010 Nov 5)
944
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100945Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
946Jan 7)
947
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100948Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
949Only with "vim -u NONE".
950
951Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
952
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100953With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
954entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
955Feb 12)
956
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200957Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
958characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100960Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
961
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200962Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
963 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
964
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200965Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
966
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200967When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
968Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
969
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100970When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
971not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
972string value.
973
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100974Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
975
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100976For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
977line argument -noregister.
978
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100979When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
980missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
981
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200982When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
983doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100984
985Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
986(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
987Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
988There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
989Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
990
991":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
992highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
993to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
994
995Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
996Probably needs a bit of work.
997
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100998List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100999Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1000
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001001Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1002
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001003Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1004
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001005Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1006Sep 1)
1007
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001008Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1009
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001010Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1011on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1012
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001013Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
10142009 Jul 18)
1015
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001016Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1017Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001018Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001019
1020Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1021window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1022Needs more work.
1023
1024Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1025
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001026When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1027few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1028
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001029'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001030(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1031
1032Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1033J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1034
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001035When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1036for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1037
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001038Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1039
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001040Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001042When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1043
1044":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1045because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1046ex_docmd.c.
1047
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001048Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001049Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1050
1051string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1052for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1053
1054Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1055
1056'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
105720)
1058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001059Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
10602009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1061
1062Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1063
1064Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1065SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1066
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001067When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1068indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1069(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1070
1071Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1072are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1073Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1074Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1075that doesn't have a window.
1076
1077When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1078doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1079
1080getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1081displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1082
1083":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1084
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001085There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1086was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1087perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1088
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001089Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1090
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001091Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1092file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1093system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1094
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001095Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1096command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001098Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1099does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1100
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001101opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1102height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001103very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001104
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001105Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1106(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1107
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001108Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001109(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1110
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001111Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1112char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1113
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001114Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1115Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1116
1117This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1118
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001119A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001120
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001121Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1122messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1123es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
11242009 Jan 26)
1125
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001126When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001127in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1128Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1129
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001130Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1131a modeline.
1132
1133Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1134Sergey Khorev)
1135
1136Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1137part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001138
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001139netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1140number to be below last visible line.
1141
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001142After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1143correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1144
1145Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1146(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1147
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001148shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001149'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1150Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1151unix-like shell?
1152
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001153Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1154register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1155(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1156
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001157Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1158Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1159
1160Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1161make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1162
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001163When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1164still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1165
1166"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1167(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1168
1169Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1170
1171"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1172
1173Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1174that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1175ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1176Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1177
1178Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001179Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001180
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001181MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1182doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1183probably causes this.
1184
1185'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020011862009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001187
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001188Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010011892013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001190
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001191Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1192 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1193 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1194(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1195
1196Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1197":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1198option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1199is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001200
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001201":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1202first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001203Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001204
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001205Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1206laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1207Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001209Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1210anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1211
1212On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1213doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1214Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1215Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1216
1217":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1218
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001219When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1220'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1221fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1222the buffer to be unmodified.
1223Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1224another look at it.
1225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001226c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1227(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1228
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001229You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1230error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1231Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1232at the other match for 0xBF.
1233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001234When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1235argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1236
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001237Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1238backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1239
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001240When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1241line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1242
1243Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1244position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1245
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001246After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1247(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001248command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001249
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001250":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1251Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001253Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1254Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1255
1256When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1257either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1258put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1259
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001260Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1261Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1262Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1263Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1264(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001266Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1267
1268ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001269
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001270Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1271(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1272escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1273an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001274This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1275July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001276Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1277work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1278
1279When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
128031)
1281
1282Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1283work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1284Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001285
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001286Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
12872008 May 14)
1288
1289Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1290Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1291'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1292
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001293Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1294Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1295
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001296Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1297Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1298
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020012998 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1300 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1301 several).
1302 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1303 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1304 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1305Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001307Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1308
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001309The utf class table is missing some entries:
1310 0x2212, minus sign
1311 0x2217, star
1312 0x2500, bar
1313 0x26ab, circle
1314
1315Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1316line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1317
1318GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1319Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001321Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1322try the Cocoa version.
1323
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001324Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1325changed or the window is resized.
1326
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001327GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1328the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1329
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001330Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1331Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001332
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001333Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
13341) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1335
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001336C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1337with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1338Try to reproduce at work.
1339
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001340Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1341Is there a way to list all the files first?
1342
1343When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1344result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
134516)
1346
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001347Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1348(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1349
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001350Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1351Await response to question to make the register writable.
1352
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001353src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1354remark why.
1355
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001356Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
13571)
1358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001359In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1360each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1361
1362try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1363
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001364try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1365
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001366":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1367Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1368
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001369Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1370
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001371Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1372Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1373
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001374Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1375Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1376Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001377
1378C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1379(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1380
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001381When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1382and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1383
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001384Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1385 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1386
1387New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1388
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001389":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1390a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1391
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001392'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1393Likonen, March 19)
1394
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001395Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1396other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1397
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001398The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1399appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1400matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001402When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1403character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1404'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1405(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1406
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001407Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1408Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001409
1410More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1411
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001412Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1413http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1414
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001415Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1416back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1417Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001418
1419Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1420No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001422Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1423terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001424
1425Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1426
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001427Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1428but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1429that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001430
1431When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1432
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001433Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1434Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1435
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001436Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1437popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1438size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1439This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1440
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001441Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1442a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1443isn't right?
1444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001445When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1446it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1447
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001448Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1449then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1450files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001451Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1452indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1453":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1454in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1455quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1456Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001457
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001458When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1459parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1460neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1461particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1462Jun 3)
1463However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1464the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001465
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001466A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1467Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001469Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1470Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1471
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001472Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1473switch list is noticed:
1474 switch (i)
1475 {
1476 case 1:
1477 foobar:
1478 }
1479
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001480Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1481
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001482Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1483with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1484go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1485moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1486
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001487Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001488Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010014898 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1490 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1491 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001492Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001493
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001494Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
149564-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1496
1497Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1498Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1499Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1500argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1501(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1502
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001503Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1504(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1505
1506Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1507makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1508.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1509 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1510
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001511Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
15122007 Feb 8)
1513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001514Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1515set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001516
1517Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1518
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001519Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1520
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001521Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1522Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1523New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1524patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1525
1526Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1527Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1528
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001529Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1530
1531Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
15322007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001533Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001534
1535Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001536label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1537
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001538Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1539with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1540Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001542Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1543pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001544Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001545
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001546Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001548Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1549Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1550only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1551
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001552Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1553Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001554Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001555properly?
1556
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001557Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001558Patches: 2013 Nov 19
15591: Add -e: little endian hexdump
15602: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
15613: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001563Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
15642007 Jun 21)
1565
1566When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1567Jun 18)
1568
1569If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1570
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001571Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1572windows. (Adam George)
1573
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001574F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1575modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1576K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001577
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001578UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1579to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1580
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001581In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1582the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1583
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001584C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001586":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1587
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001588When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001589error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001590
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001591Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1592use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1593
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001594Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1595if_ruby.c.
1596
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001597":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1598
1599The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1600it in keep_msg?
1601
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001602Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001603error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001604name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1605
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001606Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1607longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001608
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001609Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1610Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1611Also for ":w" without a file name.
1612The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001613
1614"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1615Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1616
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001617VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1618directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1619(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1620
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001621VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1622
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001623input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1624name?
1625
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001626Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1627
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001628When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1629(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1630Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1631will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1632
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001633gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1634This also fails with --remote.
1635
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001636When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
16372008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1638all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001640aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1641
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001642When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1643(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001645Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1646the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1647
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001648GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1649
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001650Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1651superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1652
1653Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1654character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1655
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001656Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1657Jun 5)
1658
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001659Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
16602008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1661Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1662
1663In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1664but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1665Jul 22)
1666
1667There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1668
1669Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1670":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1671somehow? Or use a new function.
1672
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001673Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1674
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001675Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1676moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1677that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1678
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001679The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1680
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001681When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001682cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1683the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1684
1685Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1686has been created.
1687
1688Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1689shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1690fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1691background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1692A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001693
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001694These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1695 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1696 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1697 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1698
1699Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1700partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1701
1702In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1703buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1704reload it then?
1705
1706New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1707previous version.
1708
1709For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001711Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1712only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1713
1714Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1715tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1716doesn't contain other directories.
1717
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001718Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1719Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1720
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001721Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1722 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1723 set background=dark
1724This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1725color is, not reset it.
1726
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001727Linux distributions:
1728- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1729 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1730 xfree-xterm".
1731- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1732
1733Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1734start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1735show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1736middle?
1737
1738When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001739(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001740connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1741dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1742
1743Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1744
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001745When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1746current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1747the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001749When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1750Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001752Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1753 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1754 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1755 - getting colors in xterm
1756 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1757
1758Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1759Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1760
1761Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1762
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001763A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1764Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1765
1766Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1767Dara, 2006 June 21)
1768
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001769Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1770number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001772After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1773the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001775Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001776
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001777Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1778copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1779error and stop using the connection to the server.
1780
1781Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1782Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1783
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001784Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010017852008 Sep 29)
1786
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001787In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1788check the result of has("patch13").
1789
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001790Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1791restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1792
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001793Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1794and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001796Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1797put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001799Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1800resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1801
1802In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1803can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1804
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001805GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1806maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1807doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001808Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1809visible.
1810
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001811When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1812differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001814The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1815be only one.
1816
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001817"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1818script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1819
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001820It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1821the function name before resolving it to a number?
1822 let d = {}
1823 fun! d.foo()
1824 echo "here"
1825 endfun
1826 call d.foo(9)
1827
1828Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1829only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001830Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1831used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1832
1833Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1834output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1835Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1836
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001837Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001838"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1839name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1840Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001841
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001842printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1843perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1844
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001845Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1846(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1847
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001848Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1849as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1850
1851Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1852Jan 1)
1853
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001854Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
185523)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001857":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1858tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1859Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001860
1861xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1862buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1863Xterm 224 supports it!
1864
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001865When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1866text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1867latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1868
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001869Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1870
1871Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1872no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001874In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1875VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
18762007 Oct 16)
1877
1878TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1879Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1880
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001881Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001882
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001883When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1884typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1885Sep 3, 11)
1886
1887When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1888respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1889the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1890what happens for the GUI.
1891
1892X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1893pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1894clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1895Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1896Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1897clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1898
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001899":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1900this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1901
1902When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1903Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1904restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1905
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001906Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
19072010 Jun 30)
1908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001909
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001910At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001911- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001912- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1913 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001914
1915
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001916More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001917- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1918 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001919- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1920- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1921 21)
1922- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1923 patch May 10)
1924- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1925 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1926- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1927 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1928- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1929- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1930- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1931 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1932 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001933- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001934- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1935 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1936- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1937 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1938- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1939 21)
1940- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1941 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1942- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1943 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001944- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1945 Sep 13)
1946- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001947 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001948- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1949 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1950 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1951 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1952 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001953- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001954
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001955Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000019569 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1957 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1958 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1959 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1960 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1961 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1962 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1963 (Alan Schmitt)
1964 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001965 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1966 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000019679 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001968 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000019698 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019708 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001971 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019727 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1973 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1974 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019758 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001976 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020019777 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001978 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1979- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1980 for multi-byte characters.
1981- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1982- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1983 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1984 been given values.
1985 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
19868 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001987 with an ESC sequence.
1988 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1989 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1990 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019917 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1992 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1993- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1994 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1995 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
19968 Add functions:
1997 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1998 Update 2004 Sep 10
1999 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2000 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002001 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002002 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02002003 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
2004 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002005 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2006 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2007 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2008 (2003 May 13)
2009 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2010 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002011 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2012 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002013 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2014 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2015 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020167 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2017 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2018- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2019 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
20207 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2021 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000020228 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2023 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020247 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
20258 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2026 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
20277 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2028 Kotchan has a patch for it)
20298 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2030 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2031 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
20327 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2033- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2034 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2035 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002036- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2037 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2038- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2039
2040
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002041Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002042- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2043 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020448 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2045 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2046 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2047 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2048 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2049 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020508 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2051 make Vim exit.
20527 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2053 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2054 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
20558 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2056 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2057 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
20586 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2059 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2060 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
20618 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2062 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2063 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2064 names in one buffer???
2065 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2066 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2067 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
20687 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2069 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2070 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002071 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2072 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020737 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2074 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
20757 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
20767 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
20777 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2078 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
20797 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2080 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2081 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2082 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
20837 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
20847 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
20857 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2086 to the match with the tag? Option?
20877 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
20887 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2089 (Sayre).
20907 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2091 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020927 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2093 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2094 match. Nvi can do it too.
20957 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2096 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2097 line 1\ line 2\\
2098 line 2\ line 3\\
2099 . line4/
21006 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2101 the way the shell is started?
21026 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2103 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2104
2105
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002106GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021079 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021088 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2109 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2110 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000021118 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2112 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2113 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021149 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2115 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2116 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2117 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002118- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2119 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2120 blocked for now.
2121
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002122
2123Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002124- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2125 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021268 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2127 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
21288 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2129 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2130 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
21318 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2132 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021336 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2134 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021358 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2136 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2137 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021387 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2139 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2140 to use an opaque background in most places?
21418 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2142 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2143 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021447 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2145 2004 May 9)
21468 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2147 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2148 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2149 MS-Windows 98?
2150 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2151 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2152 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2153 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021548 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2155 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2156 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2157 doesn't work properly.
21588 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2159 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2160 appears in the right position. (Webb)
21619 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2162 button doesn't give popup menu.
2163 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2164 selection.
2165 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2166 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2167 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
21688 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2169 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2170 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2171 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
21728 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2173 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2174 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021757 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2176 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2177 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
21787 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2179 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002180 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021817 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2182 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021836 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
21848 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2185 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2186 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
21878 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2188 know which keyboard is being used?
21897 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2190 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2191 area (Koloseike).
21928 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2193 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2194 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2195 the font name).
2196
2197
2198Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021996 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2200 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2201 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2202 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2203 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022049 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2205 required and it's missing?
22068 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2207 wrong.
22089 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2209 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000022109 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002211 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2212 flag.
22138 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2214 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2215 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
22168 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
22176 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2218 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2219 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2220 the tooltips work though...
22217 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2222 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
22238 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2224 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2225 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2226
2227
2228Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010022299 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2230 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022319 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2232 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2233 through files.
22347 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2235 read long file names. (Schroeder)
22364 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2237 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2238 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2239 problem during a refresh.
22405 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2241 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2242 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2243 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2244 colors as it should.
2245 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2246 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2247
2248
2249Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002250- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022517 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2252 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022538 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2254 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2255 (Phillipps)
2256
2257
2258GUI:
22599 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2260 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
22619 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002262 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002263 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
22649 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2265 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
22668 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2267 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
22688 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2269 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2270 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
22718 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2272 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2273 of where it is processing the output.
2274 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
22758 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2276 doesn't work.
22778 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000022788 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2279 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2280 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020022818 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022828 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2283 browse().
22848 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2285 use that code? Or use console dialog.
22868 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2287 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000022887 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2289 - regexp on/off
2290 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2291 when all buffers/directory is used:
2292 - filter for file name
2293 when directory is used:
2294 - subdirectory on/off
2295 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022968 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2297 to avoid problems.
22988 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2299 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2300 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
23018 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2302 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2303 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
23048 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2305 up. Set erase character somehow?
23068 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2307 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2308 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2309 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
23108 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
23117 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2312 visible.
23137 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2314 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
23157 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2316 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
23178 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2318 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
23198 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2320 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2321 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2322 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2323- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
23244 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2325 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2326 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2327
2328
2329MSDOS/DJGPP:
23309 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2331 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2332 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
23338 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2334 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
23359 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002336 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2337 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023389 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2339 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2340 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2341 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
23429 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2343 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2344 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2345 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2346 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2347 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2348 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2349 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2350 key code. Use a translation table?
23519 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2352 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
23538 Use DJGPP 2.03.
23548 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2355 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
23568 setlocale() is bogus.
23578 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2358 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2359 Windows 95 system!
23608 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000023617 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002362 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
23637 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2364 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2365 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
23668 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2367 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
23687 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2369 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2370 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2371 "[New file]".
23727 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2373 that is supported?
23748 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
23758 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2376 Briscoe)
2377
2378
2379MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
23808 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2381 gen_expand_wildcards().
23828 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2383 Wagner.
23848 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
23858 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2386 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000023878 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2388 a good fallback, thus use:
2389 $HOME
2390 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2391 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2392 $USERPROFILE
2393 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2394 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2395 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2396 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023978 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2398 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
23998 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2400 Should work like in the GUI version.
24018 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2402 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
24038 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2404 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
24058 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2406 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2407 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024088 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2409 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2410 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2411
2412
2413Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020024148 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002415 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2416 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
24178 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2418 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2419
2420
2421Win32 console:
24229 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2423 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2424 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2425 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2426 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2427 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2428 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2429 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2430 and the file is not saved.
2431 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2432 long name.
24338 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2434 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
24357 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2436 besides the console.
24378 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
24389 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2439 <C-S-i>?
24409 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2441 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
24428 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2443 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024447 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2445 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2446 exiting.
2447
2448
2449Amiga:
24508 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2451 sequences.
24529 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2453 backslashes in result.
24548 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2455 all options, using white space separation.
2456
2457
2458Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002459- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024607 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2461 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2462 (Jack)
2463 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024648 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2465 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024668 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
24678 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
24689 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2469 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024709 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002471
2472
2473"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002474- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2475 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2477 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002478- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2479 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2480 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2481 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2482 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2483 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2484 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000024859 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2486 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000024879 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002488 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2489 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024908 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2491 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2492 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002493 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024947 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2495 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
24968 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2497 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2498 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024997 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2500 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002501- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2502 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025038 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2504 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2505 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2506 using the horizontal scrollbar.
25077 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2508 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2509 invocations belong together.
25108 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2511 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
25128 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2513 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2514 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2515 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2516 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000025178 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2518 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2519 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025208 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2521 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025227 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2523 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2524 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2525 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025267 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2527 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2528 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
25297 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2530 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2531 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
25327 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2533 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025347 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2535 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025369 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2537 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2538 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2539 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2540 script can be called.
25418 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2542 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2543 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025448 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2545 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000025468 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002547 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2548 configurable?
25498 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
25509 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2551 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2552 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025538 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2554 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025558 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2556 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025578 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2558 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025599 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2560 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2561 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025627 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025638 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2564 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2565 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000025668 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2567 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2569 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025708 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2571 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
25729 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2573 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2574 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002575 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025767 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2577 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025787 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2579 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2580 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2581 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025828 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002583 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2584 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2585 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2586 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002587 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2588 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002589 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002590 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002591 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2592 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2593 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2594 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2595 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
25968 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2597 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
25989 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2599 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2600 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026018 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2602 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
26038 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2604 in lines that don't extend into the block?
26058 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2606 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2607 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
26088 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2609 'linebreak'.
26108 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2611 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2612 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026139 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2614 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2615 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2616 'magic' in history. (Margo)
26179 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2618 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
26199 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2620 isn't updated).
26219 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
26229 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2623 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2624 cause another redraw, etc.
26258 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2626 must escape special characters in the pattern.
26278 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2628 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2629 ":w!!" for that.
2630 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2631 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002632 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026337 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2634 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2635 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2636 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2637 clipboard)
26387 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2639 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2640 Waggoner)
26418 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2642 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2643 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000026446 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2645 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2646 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2648 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
26498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2650 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2651 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000026528 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026538 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2654 (e.g., ":w").
26558 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2656 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
26578 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2658 for ">>".
26598 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2660 script in do_cmdline().
26618 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2662 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2663 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2664 changes.
26658 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2666 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
26678 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2668 check for file marks. This can be slow.
26697 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2670 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2671 needed.
2672 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
26738 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2674 to skip catch_signals()?
26759 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2676 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2677 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2678 text?
26798 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2680 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
26818 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2682 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
26839 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2684 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2685 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2686 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2687 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
26887 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2689 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2690 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2691 in the list?
26928 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2693 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2694 instead of on button down.
26958 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
26969 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2697 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002698 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2699 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027008 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2701 character is typed.
27028 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2703 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
27048 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2705 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
27068 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2707 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2708 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2709 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2710 cygwin bash.
27117 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2712 Remember flags for backreferences.
27137 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2714 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
27157 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2716 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
27178 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2718 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
27197 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2720 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027217 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2722 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2723 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
27247 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2725 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
27268 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2727 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2728 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
27297 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2730 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002731
2732
2733I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
27349 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2735 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2736 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002737
2738
2739Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002740- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2741 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2742 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002743- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2744 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2745 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2746 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2747 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2748 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002749 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002750- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2751 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002752 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002753 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2754 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2755 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002756- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2757 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2758 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2759 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2760 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2761- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2762 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2763 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2764- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2765 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002767- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2768 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2769 character gets the highlighting.
2770- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2771 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2772- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2773 (Jennings)
2774- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2775- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2776 errors. How do we get the rest?
2777- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002778- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002779 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2780- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2781 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2782 first?
2783- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2784 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2785- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2786 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2787 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2788- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2789 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2790 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2791 (Benzinger).
2792- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2793 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2794 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2795- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2796 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2797- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2798 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2799- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2800 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2801 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2802 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2803 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2804 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2805- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2806 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2807 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002808- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2809 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2810 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002811- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2812 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2813 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2814- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2815 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2816- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2817 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002818- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2819 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2820- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2821 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2822 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2823 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2824 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2825- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2826 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2827 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2828- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2829 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2830 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002831- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2832 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 +00002833- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2834 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2835 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2836 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2837 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2838- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2839 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2840
2841--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2842 *extensions-improvements*
2843
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002844Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2845- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2846 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2847 calling a function.
2848 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2849 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002850- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2851 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2852- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2853 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2854 http://clewn.sf.net.
2855 And the idevim plugin/script.
2856 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2857 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2858 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2859 other window.
2860 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2861 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2862 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2863 in terminal mode.
2864- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2865 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2866 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2867 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2868 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2869 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002871- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2872 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2873 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002874- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2875 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002876- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2877 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2878 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028798 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2880 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2881 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2882 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002883- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2884 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002885
2886
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002887Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028888 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2889 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028908 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2891 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028928 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2893 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028948 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028957 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
28969 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2897 - change to cursor position and curswant
2898 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2899 - how it works for folded lines
2900 - how it works with multi-byte characters
29019 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2902 work too.
29038 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2904 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2905 text.
29068 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
29077 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2908 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
29097 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2910 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002911 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002912- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2913
2914
2915Help:
2916- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2917 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2918- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2919 to the other matches.
2920- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2921- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2922- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2923 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2924 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2925 default contents.
2926- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2927 height for the help window (and other windows).
2928- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2929- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2930- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2931
2932
2933User Friendlier:
29348 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2935 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2936 Briscoe)
29378 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
29388 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2939 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2940 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
29418 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2942 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2943- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2944 ":mkplugin <file>"?
29458 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2946 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2947 'runtimepath'.
2948 " Vim plugin
2949 <main plugin code>
2950 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2951 <plugin docs>
2952- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
29539 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2954 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2955 item?).
2956 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029578 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
29587 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000029597 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2960 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2961 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000029628 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2963 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2964 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2965 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002966
2967
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002968Tab pages:
29699 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029707 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2971 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029728 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000029738 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029747 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029757 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002976 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029777 Add local variables for each tab page?
29788 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2979 tab pages.
29807 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029817 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2982 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002983
2984
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002985Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002986- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2987 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2988- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2989 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2990 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2991- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2992 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002993- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2994 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2995 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002996- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2997 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2998 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002999- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3000 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003001- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3003 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000030048 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3005 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
30068 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3007 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
30088 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3009 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003010 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003011 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3012 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3013 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3014 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003015- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3016 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003017- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003018- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3019 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003020- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003021 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003022- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003023 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003024- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3025 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003026- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3027 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3028- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003029 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003030 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3031 in the affix file separately.
3032 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003033 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003034 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3035 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3036 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3037- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3038 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3039 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3040 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3041 Alternative:
3042 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3043 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3044 affix which is required.
3045- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003046 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003047- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3048 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3049 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003050- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3051 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003052- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3053 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3054- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030558 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3056 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3057 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3058 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003059- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3060 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3061 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3062 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030638 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3064 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030658 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
30668 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3067 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030687 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
30698 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3070 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3071 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3072 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003073
3074
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003075Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020030769 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3077 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030789 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3079 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003080 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030818 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3082 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3083 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003084 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3085 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030867 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3087 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3088 location.
3089
3090
3091Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003092 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3093 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030948 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3095 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000030968 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030979 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3098 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030998 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3100 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3101 user aware of this?
31028 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3103 commands skip over a closed fold.
31048 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
31058 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031067 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003107- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3108 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3109 missing line goes unnoticed.
3110 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003111- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3112 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3113 smoother?
3114- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3115 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003116- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3117 file can contain:
3118 args version.c main.c
3119 edit version.c
3120 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003121- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003122- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3123 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003124- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3125 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003126- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3127 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003128- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031298 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003130 searches.
3131
3132
3133Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003134- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3135 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3136 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3137 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031389 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3139 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3140 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3141 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031429 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3143 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3144 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031458 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3146 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3147 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3148 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3149 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3150 item.
31518 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003152 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3153 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031548 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3155 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003156 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003157 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031588 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3159 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031608 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3161 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3162 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031637 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3164 so that the user can fix the problem.
31658 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3166 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031679 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
31688 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031698 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
31708 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031717 Searching and composing characters:
3172 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003173 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3174 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031758 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
31768 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
31778 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3178 characters.
31798 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
31808 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3181 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
31827 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3183 'display' option to specify this.
31847 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3185 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3186- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3187 fontselector somehow.
3188- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3189 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3190- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3191 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3192- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3193 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3194 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3195 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3196 if a font exists?
3197- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003198 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003199- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3200 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
32017 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3202 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003203- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3204 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3205 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3206 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003207- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3208 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3209 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3210- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3211 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3212 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3213 But it's very complicated...
3214
3215
3216Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000032177 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003218- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3219- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3220 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003221- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3222 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003223- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3224- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3225 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003226- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3227 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003228- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3229 units as for the margins.
3230- Support right-to-left text?
32318 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3232 color.
3233
3234
3235Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032368 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3237 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
32388 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3239 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
32408 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3241 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000032427 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3243 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032448 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3245 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3246 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032477 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3248 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3249 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032508 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
32519 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3252 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032537 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3254 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000032557 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3256 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032578 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3258 change this for each release.
32598 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3260 pattern, but not in the body.
32618 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3262 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3263 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032648 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
32658 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3266 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3267 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3268 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003269 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3270 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032718 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3272 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
32738 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3274 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003275 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032768 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3277 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3278 used.
32798 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3280 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
32818 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3282 re-insert the [] if possible.
32838 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3284 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032858 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3286 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3287 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3288 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3289 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032908 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3291 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
32928 Support for deleting syntax items:
3293 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3294 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3295 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
32968 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3297 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3298 a '<'. (Fleiner)
32997 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3300 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3301 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
33027 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3303 detected.
33048 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003305 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033068 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3307 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033088 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
33098 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
33107 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3311 ":mkvimrc".
33128 Improve c.vim:
3313 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3314 "c_strict_ansi".
3315 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
33168 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3317 current line while in Insert mode.
33188 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3319 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
33208 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3321 display position.
33228 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3323 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3324 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
33258 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3326 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3327 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033288 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3329 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3330 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033317 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3332 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3333 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3334 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3335 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033367 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3337 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3338 E.g. for this html:
3339 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033407 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
33417 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3342 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033438 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
33448 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033457 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3346 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3347 completion?
33488 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3349 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
33507 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3351 select one of the sets.
33528 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3353 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3354 2, etc.
33558 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3356 highlighting (for "." command).
33578 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3358 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
33598 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
33607 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3361 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
33626 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3363 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3364- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3365 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3366- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003367- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3368 (for comment blocks).
3369- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3370 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3371 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3372 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3373 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3374 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3375 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3376 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3377 (Campbell)
3378 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3379 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
33807 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3381 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
33827 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3383 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3384 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
33857 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3386 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3387 messages. And external commands?
33888 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3389 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
33907 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3391 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3392
3393
3394Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033958 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3396 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003397 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033987 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3399 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3400 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034018 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3402 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003403- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3404 2006 Dec 11.
3405- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020034068 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3407 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3408 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3409 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3410 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3411 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034127 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3413 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034148 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
34158 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3416 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3417 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3418 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3419 nested packages?
3420 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3421 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3422 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034237 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3424 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3425 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3426 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3427 autocommand.
3428 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3429 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3430 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3431 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034327 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3433 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034346 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3435 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034368 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003437 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3438 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3439 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3440 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3441 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3442 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3443 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003444 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3445 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3446 3 2002
3447 Only add this when also implemented for
3448 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3449 be used.
3450 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003451 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3452 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3453 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3454 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3455 File.Open..." argument.
3456 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3457 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3458 with properties instead.
3459 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3460 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3461 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003462 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003463 crypt() encrypt string
3464 decrypt() decrypt string
3465 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3466 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003467 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003468 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003469 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003470 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003471 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003472 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3473 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003474 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3475 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003476 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003477 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3478 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003479 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3480 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3481 to allow the library to execute a command or
3482 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034837 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3484 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
34858 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3486 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034878 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3488 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034898 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034907 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3491 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
34926 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034938 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3494 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034958 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3496 option or environment variable.
34978 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034988 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003499 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000035007 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3501 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3503 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
35048 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
35058 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3506 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3507 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3508 charwise({expr}).
35097 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3510 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3511 buffer for this?
3512 result = scratch(string, command)
3513 result = apply(string, command)
3514 result = execute(string, command)
3515 "command" would use <> notation.
3516 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
35177 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003518
3519
3520Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000035216 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3522 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3523 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3524 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3525 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3526 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3527 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003528
3529
3530Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035317 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3532 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020035337 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3534 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3535 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3536 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035378 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3538 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3539 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3540 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003541 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035428 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3543 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3544 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035458 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
35469 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
35478 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
35487 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3549 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
35508 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3551 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3552 when starting up in a color terminal.
35538 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3554 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035558 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3556 function be improved?
35578 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3558 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3559 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3560 this be improved?
35618 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3562 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035637 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3564 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035657 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3566 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
35677 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3568 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035697 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035707 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3571 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3572 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3573 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3574 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3575 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3576 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035778 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3578 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3579 using strcmp() too often?
35807 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3581 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3582 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3583 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3584 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3585 the two blocks to the memfile block.
35867 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3587 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3588 with an argument that can be messed with.
3589 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3590 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
35917 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3592- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
35938 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3594 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3595- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3596 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3597- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3598- Do profiling on:
3599 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3600 - 1000ii<Esc>
3601 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3602 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3603 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3604 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3605 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3606 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003607 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036087 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3609 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3610 changed).
3611 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3612 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3613- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3614- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3615 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3616- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3617 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3618 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3619- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3620 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3621- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3622- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3623 cursor is right of the screen.
36248 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3625 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3626
3627
3628Code size:
36298 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3630- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3631 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
36328 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
36338 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3634 it.
36357 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3636 left out.
36378 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3638 can be removed.
36398 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3640
3641
3642Messages:
36438 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3644 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
36458 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3646 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
36478 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3648 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3650 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3651- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036528 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3653 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036549 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3655 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3656 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3657 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3658 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036598 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3660 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
36618 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3662 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3663 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3664 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3665 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3666 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003667- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003668 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036698 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3670 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3671 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3672 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3673 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3674 error messages, printing text, etc.
36758 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3676 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3677 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3678
3679
3680Screen updating:
36817 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3682 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3683 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3684- screen_line():
3685 - insert/delete character stuff.
3686 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3687- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3688 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3689- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3690 waiting for a character.
36918 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3692 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3693 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
36947 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003695
3696
3697Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020036988 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036996 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3700- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3701 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3702 windows.
37037 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3704 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3705 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3706- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3707 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3708 (Goldfarb)
3709- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3710 bound windows.
3711- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3712 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003713- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003714- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3715 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3716 of lines but not with a single line).
3717
3718
3719Autoconf:
37208 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
37218 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3722 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3723- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3724 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3725- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3726- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3727- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3728
3729
3730Perl interface:
37318 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037327 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
37337 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
37346 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3735
3736
3737Shared libraries:
37386 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3739 :libload internal-name libname
3740 :libunload internal-name
3741 :liblist
3742 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3743 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3744 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
37456 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3746
3747
3748Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000037499 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3750 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3751 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3752 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3753 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037548 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3755 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3756 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003757 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003758 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000037597 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3760 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3761 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037628 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
37638 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3764 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037657 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3766 window for each tag.
37677 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
37687 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3769 bottom" search message.
37707 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3771 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3772 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003773- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3774- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003775- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3776 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3777 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037787 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3779 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3780 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3781 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
37827 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3783 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3784 :tagargs clear
3785 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3786 matching).
37877 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3788 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3789 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3790 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
37917 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3792 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
37937 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3794 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3795 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003796
3797
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003798Win32 GUI:
37998 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3800 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038017 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3802 (Mike McCollister)
38038 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3804 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3805 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3806 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3807 common part of the path.
38088 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
38098 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3810 gettext and menus work.
38118 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3812 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003813 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003814 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
38158 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3816 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
38178 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3818 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
38197 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3820 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
38217 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
38227 <Esc> should close a dialog.
38237 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3824 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3825 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3826 prompts.
38277 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3828 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3829 the file added into an already running Vim.
38307 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3831 functions to find the window title.
3832
3833
3834GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020038358 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003836- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3837 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
38387 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
38398 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
38406 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
38418 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3842 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
38439 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
38447 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
38458 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3846 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
38478 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3848 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3849 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
38508 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3851 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
38528 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3853 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3854 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3855 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038567 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
38578 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3858 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000038597 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3860 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3861 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038628 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
38638 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003864 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038658 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
38668 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
38678 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3868 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3869 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
38707 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3871 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3872 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
38737 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3874 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
38757 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3876 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3877 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3878 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
38797 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3880 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
38817 Should support multi-column menus.
3882- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3883 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3884- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
38858 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
38866 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3887 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
38887 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
38897 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3890 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3891 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
38927 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
38938 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3894 name can be chosen free.
38957 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3896 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
38976 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3898 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3899 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3900 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3901 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3902 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3903 things.
39047 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3905 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039067 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003907 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003908- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3909 where it was started from?
39107 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3911
3912
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020039149 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3915 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003916- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010039178 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3918 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3919 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3920 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
39218 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3922 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000039237 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3924 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3925 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3926 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039277 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039288 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3929 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039308 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3931 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3932 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039337 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3934 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3935 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039368 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3937 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3938 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039397 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3940 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039418 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3942 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039438 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039446 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3945 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039467 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039477 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003948 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3949 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3950 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039515 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3952 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3953 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
39547 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3955 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3956 file.
39578 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3958 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3959 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003960- Add events to autocommands:
3961 Error - When an error happens
3962 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003963 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003964 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3965 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003966 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003967 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003968 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3969 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003970 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003971 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003972 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3973 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3974 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3975 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003976 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003977 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3978 the char.
3979 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3980 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3981 file from CVS).
3982 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3983 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3984 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3985 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3986 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3987 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003988 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3989 changes.
3990 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3991 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003992- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003994 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003995 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3996 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3997 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3998 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3999 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4000
4001
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004002Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004003- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4004 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004005- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4006 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4007 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4008 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4009 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004010- Ideas from others:
4011 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4012 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4013 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4014 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4015 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4016 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4017 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4018 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4019 Uses Perl for C++.
4020 Uses ctags to find the info:
4021 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4022 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4023 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4024 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4025 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4026 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004027 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004028 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4029- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4030
4031
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004033- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000040347 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4035 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040367 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4037 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4038 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040398 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4040 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
40419 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4042 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4043 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040448 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4045 - ignore/match case
4046 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040478 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4048 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4049 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4050 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4051 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4052 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040538 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040547 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4055 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040568 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4057 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4058 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4059 Should work for C++ and Java.
4060 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
40617 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
40627 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4063 instead of words.
40648 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
40658 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4066 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
40678 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4068 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004069- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4070 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004071- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4072 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4073 wildcards in the file name)?
4074- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4075- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4076- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4077 be in another file).
4078- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4079- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4080- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4081 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4082- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4083- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4084- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004085- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4086
4087
4088Command line editing:
40897 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4090 line.
40918 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4092 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4093 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4094- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4095 lines wraps to start of line).
4096- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4097 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4098 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4099 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4100 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4101 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4102 cmdwin does now already.
4103 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4104 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4105 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4106 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4107 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4108 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4109 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4110 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4111 Problems:
4112 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4113 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4114 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4115 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4116 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4117 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4118 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4119 character in first column?
4120 - Implementation ideas:
4121 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4122 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4123 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4124 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4125 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4126 Mode.
4127
4128
4129Command line completion:
41308 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
41318 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4132 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
41338 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4134 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041358 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4136 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041377 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4138 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004139- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4140- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4141 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041428 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4143 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
41447 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4145 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4146- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4147 identifiers (Webb).
41488 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4149 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
41507 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4151 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4152- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4153 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4154- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4155 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4156 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157
4158
4159Command line history:
4160- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4161 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4162 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4163 completely resulted from one mapping.
4164- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4165 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4166
4167
4168Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000041699 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4170 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4171 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041728 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4173 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4174 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4175 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4176 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041778 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4178 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4179 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041807 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4181 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004182- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041839 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041847 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4185 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4186- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4187 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4188 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4189 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4190 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4191 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4192- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4193 Normal mode.
4194- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4195 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4196 are used.
4197- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4198- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4199- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4200
4201
4202'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010042039 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4204 char * veryLongName =
4205 "very long string"
4206 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042078 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042088 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4209 long_type foo =
4210 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042118 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4212 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004213 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4215 func(
4216 new String[] {
4217 "asdf",
4218 "asdf"
4219 }
4220 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042218 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4222 (Chow Loong Jin)
4223 namespace {
4224 int
4225 func(int arg) {
4226 }
4227 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042286 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4229 func( arg1
4230 , arg2
4231 , arg3
4232 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000042337 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004234 func(
4235 int x) // indent like "(4"
4236 {
4237 if (a
4238 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042399 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4240 if (a)
4241 {
4242 if (b)
4243 {
4244 // {
4245 }
4246 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004247 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4248 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4249 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004250- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
42527 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4253- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4254 line).
4255- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4256- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4257 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004258- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4259 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4260- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4261 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4262- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4263- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4264 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
42658 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4266 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4267 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4268- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4269- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4270 lines start with "\item".
4271- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4272 /* here is a comment that
4273 is just autoindented, and
4274 nothing else */
4275- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
42767 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4277 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4278 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004279 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004280
4281
4282Java:
42838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4284 Odendahl?
42858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4286 "[i" commands and friends.
4287- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4288 (Jason)
4289- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4290 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4291
4292
4293'comments':
42948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4295 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4296 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4297 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004298 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4299 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043007 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4301 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
43027 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
43036 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4304 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4305 regexp is used.
43068 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4307 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4308
4309
4310Virtual edit:
43118 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4313
4314
4315Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043168 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043178 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000043188 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004319 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000043208 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4321 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004322 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4323 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000043248 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043257 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4326 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043278 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4328 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043298 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4330 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4331 the end of the line or before a ".".
43327 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4333 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
43347 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4335 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043366 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
43375 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4338 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4339 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4340 cursor is on.
4341
4342
4343Select mode:
43448 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4345 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
43467 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004347 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043487 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4349 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4350 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4351 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4352 normal_cmd().
4353 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4354 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4355
4356
4357Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020043588 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4359 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004360- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4361 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4362 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004363- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4364 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4365 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043668 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004367 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004368 where needed.
43697 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4370 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
43717 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4372 of each selected line.
43738 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
43748 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4375 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4376 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
43778 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4378 Ben Godfrey)
43797 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4380 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
43817 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4382 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
43837 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4384 Young is working on this)
43857 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004386 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004387 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
43888 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4389 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
43907 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4391 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4392 option!
43937 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4394 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4395 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4396 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4397 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4398 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4399 without changing the column.
44006 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044017 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4402 current buffer.
44037 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
44046 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4405 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
44066 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044076 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004408 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004409 or other special character.
44106 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4411
4412
4413More advanced repeating commands:
4414- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000044157 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004416 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004417- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004418- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004419 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4420 "y." will repeat last yank.
4421 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4422 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4423 and/or pick an older command.
4424- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4425
4426
4427Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044288 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4429 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4430 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
44318 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
44327 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4433 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044348 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4435 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
44368 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000044377 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044388 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4439 entering search strings.
44408 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4441 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4442 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044438 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4444 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044458 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4446 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4447 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
44487 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044497 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4450 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044516 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4452 abbreviations are to be used.
4453- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4454 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4455 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004456- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4457 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4458 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4459 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4460 Or implicit:
4461 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004462- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4463 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4464 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004465- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4466 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4467- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4468 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
44696 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4470 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4471 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4472 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004473- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4474 non-replace Insert mode?
4475- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004476- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4477- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4478 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4479- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004480 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004481- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4482 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4483- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4484- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4485 ":freekeys".
4486- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4487
4488
4489Incsearch:
4490- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4491- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4492 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4493 up every time.
4494- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4495 folds when going to another line.
4496- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4497 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4498 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4499 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4500- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4501 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4502
4503
4504Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010045059 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000045068 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004507 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004508 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004509 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004510 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045119 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4512 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010045138 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4514 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000045158 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4516 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4517 Perl does it this way:
4518 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4519 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4520 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4521 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045228 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4523 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4524 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045258 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4526 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4527 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000045287 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4529 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000045308 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4531 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045327 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004533 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4534 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4535 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
45367 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4537 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045387 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004539 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045407 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4541 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045428 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4543 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
45448 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4545 line.
45467 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4547 example.
45488 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4549 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4550- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4551 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4552 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4553 Alternative: use matchit.vim
45548 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
45558 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4556 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4557 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
45587 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4559 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000045607 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4561 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045628 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4563 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045648 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4565 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045668 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4567 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4568 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4569 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004570- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4571 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004572- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4573 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4574- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4575 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4576 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4577 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045788 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4579 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004580- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4581 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045828 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4583 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4584 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004585- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4586 i ignore case
4587 I use case
4588 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4589 v use Vi regexp syntax
4590 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4591 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4592 Perl uses these too:
4593 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4594 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4595 o compile only once (Perl only)
4596 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4597 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4598 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4599 following command.
4600 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4601- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4602 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4603 for search string)?
46047 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4605 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4606- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4607 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4608- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4609 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4610- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4611- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004612 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004613 a for the next file in the argument list
4614 f for file in the buffer list
4615 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004616 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4617 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4619 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4620- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046217 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004622 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046237 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4624 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4625 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4626 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
46276 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4628 effects.
46297 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4630 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4631 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046327 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004633 Also ":dselect".
4634
4635
4636Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046379 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4638 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4639 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046409 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4641 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020046428 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4643 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4644 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
46458 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4646 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046478 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4648 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4649 timestamp?
4650 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4651 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046528 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4653 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4654 was changed outside of Vim.
4655 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4656 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004657 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4658 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004659- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4660 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004661- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4662 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4663 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
46648 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4665 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4666 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4667 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
46688 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4669 only remember the lines that really changed.
46707 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4671 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4672 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4673 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004674- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4675 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4676- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4677 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4678- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4679 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4680 [-99].
4681- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4682- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4684 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4685
4686
4687Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046887 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4689 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4690 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4691 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
46928 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4693 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
46948 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4695 inode too.
46967 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004697 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4698 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046997 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4700 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4701- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4702 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4703- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4704 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
47057 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4706 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
47077 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4708 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
47098 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047108 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004711 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
47127 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4713 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047148 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4715 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4716 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004717
4718
4719Swap (.swp) files:
47208 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4721 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4722 there are short file name problems.
47238 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4724 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
47258 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
47268 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004727 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004728 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4729 file the same as the actual file?
4730 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047317 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4732 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
47337 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004734 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004735 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4736 enough room.
47377 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4738 or /var/preserve.
4739- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4740 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4741- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4742 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4743- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4744 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4745 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4746 cached list of which line is where.
4747
4748
4749Viminfo:
47507 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4751 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4752 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000047538 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4754 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4755 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4757 name. (Schild)
47588 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
47598 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047608 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047618 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4762 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4763 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4764 this?
47657 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
47667 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4767 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
47686 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4769 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4770 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4771- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4772 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4773
4774
4775Modelines:
47768 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4777 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4778 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004779- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4780 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4781 'shiftwidth'.
4782- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4783 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004784- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4785 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4786 modeline setting.
4787- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4788 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4789- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4790 .cpp files.
4791- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4792 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4793- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4794 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4795
4796
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004797Sessions:
47988 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4799 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
48007 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4801 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048028 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4803 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048048 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4805 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4806 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000048077 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4808 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000048097 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004810
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004811
4812Options:
48137 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4814 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048158 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4816 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4817 also be supported.
48188 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4819 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4820 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
48217 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
48227 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4823 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004824 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004825
4826
4827External commands:
48288 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4829 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
48304 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4831 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4832 -f).
48334 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
48344 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4835 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
48364 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4837
4838
4839Multiple Windows:
48407 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
48418 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4842 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
48437 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4844 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4845 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048467 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4847 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000048487 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4849 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048506 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4851 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004852 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004853 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
48547 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4855 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4856 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4857 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4858- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4859 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4860 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4861 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4862
4863
4864Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048658 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048668 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4867 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048688 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 +000048698 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4870 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
48718 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4872 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4873 the mark was set.
48747 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4875 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4876 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4877 ":browse marks"?
48786 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048797 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4880 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
48817 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4882 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
48837 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4884 command).
48857 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4886 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4887 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4888 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
48895 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4890 mappings.
48916 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4892 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4893 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4894
4895
4896Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020048977 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004898 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004899- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4900 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000049018 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049027 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4903 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4904
4905
4906Writing files:
4907- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4908 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4909 shortname conversion.
49108 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
49118 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4912 file.
49138 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4914 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4915 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049166 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4917 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
49186 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4919 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
49206 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4921 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049228 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004923 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
49247 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4925 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
49267 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4927 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4928 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4929 waiting for a character to be typed).
49308 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4931 line of the window, like "[time]".
4932 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4933 Automatic and/or with a command.
4934
4935
4936Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000049378 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4938 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049398 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004940 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4941- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4942- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
49438 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4944 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004945- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946 :s///N substitutes N times.
4947- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4948 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4949 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
49507 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4951 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4952 last line column 5.
49535 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4954 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4955 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4956 (Stanislav Sitar)
4957
4958
4959Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049608 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
49617 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
49628 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4963 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4964 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004965- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4966- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4967 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4968- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4969- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4970
4971
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972Argument list:
49736 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4974 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4975 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
49766 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4977
4978
4979Registers:
49808 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
49818 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4982 around in windows.
49838 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4984 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4985 for every line.
49866 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4987 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4988 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4989- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4990 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4991- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4992 leader when line wraps?
4993- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4994 line in the range.
4995- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4996 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
49978 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4998 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004999
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000
5001Debug mode:
50027 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
50038 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050048 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050057 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005006 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5007 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5008 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050097 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
50107 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5011
5012
5013Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000050147 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5015 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5016 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5017 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5018 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5019 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5020 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005021 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000050227 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5023 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000050247 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5025 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050268 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5027 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050287 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5029 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5030 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005031- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005032 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050337 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5034 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050357 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5036 window as a buffer-tab selection.
50378 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050387 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5039 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5040 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005041 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5042 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050437 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5044 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
50458 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5046 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050476 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050488 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5049 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5050 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5051 in this Vim.
50528 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005053 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050548 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5055 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5056 have it apply to the following command.
50578 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5058 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5059 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5060 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050617 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5062 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050637 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5064 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5065 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5066 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050676 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
50688 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
50699 Support ACLs on more systems.
50707 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5071 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050727 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5073 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5074 (truncated to fit in the space).
50757 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
50768 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
50778 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5078 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000050797 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005080 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
50817 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5082 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050837 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050847 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
50857 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050868 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
50878 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5088 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5089 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5090 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
50918 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
50926 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5093 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005094 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005095 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050968 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050978 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5098 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5099 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5100 does something like this. (Shah)
51017 Use growarray for replace stack.
51027 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5103 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
51043 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051057 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5106 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010051077 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5108 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005109- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5110- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5111- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5112- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
51137 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5114 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5115- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5116 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005117- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005118- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5119 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5120- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5121 call "play newbeep.au").
5122- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5123 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5124 (Bhatt).
5125- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5126 blockwise registers).
5127- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5128 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5129- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5130 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5131 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5132 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005133- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051347 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5135 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5136- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5137 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5138 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5139 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5140 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051418 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5142 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051438 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5144 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5145 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5146 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5147 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5148- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005149- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051507 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5151 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5152- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5153 not in column 1.
51546 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5155 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
51567 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5157- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005158- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005159 :redir #> bufname
5160 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005161- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5162 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005163- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5164 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5165 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
51666 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5167 console? (Klaus Hast)
5168- Add :delcr command:
5169 *:delcr*
5170 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5171 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5172 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5173 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5174 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5175 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5176- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5177- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5178 characters from 'isprint'.
5179- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5180- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5181 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5182- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5183 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5184 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5185- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5186- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5187 Nvi).
5188- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5189 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
51907 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5191- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5192 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
51936 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5194- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5195 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5196 macro).
5197- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005198- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5199 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5200- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
52018 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005202- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5203- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5204- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5205 if it is not the first or last window.
5206- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5207 there is one) instead of the file itself.
52087 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5209 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5210 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5211- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5212- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005213 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005214 many percent down the windows).
5215- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5216 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5217 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005218 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005219- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5220 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5221- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5222 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5223- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5224- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5225- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5226 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052278 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5228 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5229 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5230 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5231 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005232- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5233 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5234- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005235 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5236- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5238 (Webb).
5239- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005240 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005241- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5242 hex codes like 0xff).
5243- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5244 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5245 the last TYPED command.
5246- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5247- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5248- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5249 should also work?
5250- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
52518 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5252 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5253 name.
5254- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5255 trailing '.'.
5256- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5257 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5258 find_file_in_path().
5259- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5260 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5261- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5262- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5263 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5264- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005265 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005266- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5267 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5268 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005269- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5270- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5271- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5272 to the minimal size.
5273- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5274- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5275- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5276- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5277- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005278- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5279 entered)?
5280- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5281 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005282- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005283- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5284- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5285- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5286- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5287- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5288 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005289- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052908 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5291 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5292 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5293 or in octal.
52947 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5295 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005296- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005297 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5298- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5299- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5300 insert line command).
5301- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5302- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5303- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5304- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5305- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5306 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005307- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005308 yet.
5309- Implement 'redraw' option.
5310- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5311 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053127 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5313 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005314 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5315 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053168 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5317 do it.
5318- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5319- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5320 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5321- Add text justification option.
5322- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5323- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5324 off".
5325- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5326- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5327- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005328 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005330- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005331- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5332- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5333 commands.
5334- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5335- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5336- :table command (Webb)
5337- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005338- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5339- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5340- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5341- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5342- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5343 (Demirel).
5344- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5345- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5346 for use in macro's and the like.
5347- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005348 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005349- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005350 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005352 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005353 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5354- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5355 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005356- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357 mkopttab to make option table?
5358- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5359 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5360- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5361 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005362- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005363 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5364- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5365 cursor?
5366- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5367- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
53685 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5369 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053708 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5371 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5372 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5373 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5374 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053758 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5376 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5377 (Netherton)
53786 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5379 space after "(", for example.
53805 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5381 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5382 (Servatius Brandt)
5383
5384
5385From Elvis:
5386- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5387- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005388- Search patterns:
5389 \@ match word under cursor.
5390 but do:
5391 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5392 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
53938 ":window" command:
5394 :win + next window (up)
5395 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5396 :win - previous window (down)
5397 :win -- idem, wrapping
5398 :win nr to window number "nr"
5399 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
54007 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5401 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5402
5403
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005404From xvi:
5405- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5406- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5407
5408
5409From vile:
5410- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5411- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5412 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5413
5414
5415Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005416- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5417 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5418 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5419 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5420 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005421- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5422 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5423- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5424 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5425 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5426 current layout mirrored.
5427- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5428- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5429 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5430- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5431- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5432 font in each top-level window.
5433- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5434- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5435- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5436- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5437 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5438- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5439 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5440 mentioned in the tags file.
5441 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5442 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5443- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5444 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5445- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5446 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
54474 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5448 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5449 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5450 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005451 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005452 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5453 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5454- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5455 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5456 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5457
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005458When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5459empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460
5461vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5462vim: set fo+=n :