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Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2018 May 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035 *known-bugs*
36-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
37
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020038Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020039- Duplicated lines when making terminal only window. (Dominique, #2909)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010040- Still some stuff to implement and bugs to fix, see src/terminal.c
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020041- Add more functionality for terminal API? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
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43Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
4413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020045
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +020046On Win32 when not in the console and t_Co >= 256, allow using 'tgc'.
47(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #2833) Also check t_Co.
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020048
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020049Pop-up menu overlapping terminal is not cleared completely. (Lifepillar, 2018
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +020050May 13, #2908) Hint from Christian, May 14.
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020051
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020052balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
5320, #2481)
54Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
55
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010056Errors found with random data:
57 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +010058
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020059More warnings from static analysis:
60https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +020061
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020062When opening foo/x.txt and bar/x.txt get swap file warning. Should check the
63file name. (Juergen Weigert)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010064
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +020065Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
66modified buffers
67 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
68 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
69 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
70 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
71
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010072Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
73- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
74- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
75- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010076- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
77
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020078Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
79- Test_setbufvar_options()
80- Test_exit_callback_interval()
81
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +010082Try out background make plugin:
83 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
84or asyncmake:
85 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
86
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010087Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
88mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
89
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +020090Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
91is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
92used for git temp files.
93
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010094Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
95
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +020096Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
97script or function.
98
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +020099MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
100If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
101(wait a little while).
102CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100103
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200104Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
105missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
106
107Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
108- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
109- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
110- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
111 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
112- make it possible to do a silent install, see
113 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
114 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
115- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
116- The one on Issue 279.
117Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
118How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
119
120Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200121
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100122Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
123mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
Bram Moolenaar51ad4ea2018-04-06 11:14:11 +0200124Also: 'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100125
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200126When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
127with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200128
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200129Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
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Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100131Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100132Jan 15, #2555)
133
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200134":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
135
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100136Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
137
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200138Patch to add reg_executing() and reg_recording(). (Hirohito Higashi, #2745)
139
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100140No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
141No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
142
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200143Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
144http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
145Should be supported with a flag.
146
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100147Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
148confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
149
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100150Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
151
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100152Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
153sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
154
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100155ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read inbetween, which may cause
156a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
157Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
158
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200159Patch to include a cfilter plugin to filter quickfix/location lists.
160(Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 May 12)
161
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100162Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
163Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
164applying the diff, etc.
165
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200166Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
167Apr 26, #2849)
168
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100169User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
170word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100171
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100172Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200173
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200174With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
175(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
176
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200177Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
178:drop (remote commands).
179
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200180Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
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Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200182Implement option_save() and option_restore():
183option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
184 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
185 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
186 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
187 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
188 be called when the same window is the current window.
189 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
190 the local options won't be restored.
191
192option_save({list}) *option_save()*
193 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
194 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
195 let s:saved_options = option_save([
196 \ 'ignorecase',
197 \ 'iskeyword',
198 \ ])
199 au <buffer> BufLeave *
200 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
201< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
202 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
203 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
204 not where it was restored.
205
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100206"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
207directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
208Also see #1689.
209
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200210ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200211Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200212
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100213crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
21417, #2652)
215
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100216When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100217highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100218
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100219Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
220#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
221
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100222Patch to add winlayout() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 Jan 4)
223
224No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
2252017 Dec 26, #2501)
226
227Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
228quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
229
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200230CTRL-X on zero gets stuck on 0xfffffffffffffffe. (Hengyang Zhao, #2746)
231
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100232A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
233
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100234Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
235(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
236
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200237Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
238program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
239implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
240Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
2419 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
242 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
243 It's complicated and badly documented.
244Alternative: use the xdiff library. Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2018 Mar
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020024520, #2732)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200246
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200247ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
248
249Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
250
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100251Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
252Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
253
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100254Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
255in #846)
256Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
257
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200258Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
259Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
260
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100261When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
262redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200263
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100264In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
265(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
266
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100267Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
268Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
269
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100270Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
271neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100272
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200273Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
274Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
275
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100276Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
277Nov 21)
278
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200279When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
280triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
281set_color_count().
282
283Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
284responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
285
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100286When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
287CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
288Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
289always nested.
290
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200291matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
292
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100293Patch to add variable name after "scope add". (Eddie Lebow, 2018 Feb 7, #2620)
294Maybe not needed?
295
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100296Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
297
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100298MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100299for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
300
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100301Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
302#2357)
303
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200304Test runtime files.
305Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200306
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200307Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200308
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200309Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue #539.
310Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
311Another patch in #2733.
312>
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200313Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
314defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
315Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
316
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200317After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
31813, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200319
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200320Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
321Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
322
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200323When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
324line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
325
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100326The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
327
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200328Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
329set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
330
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200331Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200332Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100333Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200334
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200335Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
336
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100337Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
338
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200339Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200340It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100341Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200342Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200343
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200344Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
345
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200346Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
347behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
348
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100349'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
350
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200351All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
352For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
353 mylist~get(idx)
354 mydict~get(idx)
355 mystring~len()
356Alternatives for ~:
357 ^ list^get() could also be used
358 . list.get() already means concatenate
359 $ list$get() harder to read
360 @ list@get() harder to read
361 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
362
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200363The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
364
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100365When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
366a command can delete it.
367
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200368Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
369#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
370
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100371The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
372for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
373
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200374X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
375pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
376clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
377Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
378Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
379clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200380Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200381
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100382Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
383http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
384http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
385Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
386- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
387- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
388- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
389 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
390- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
391- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
392Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
393- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
394- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
395Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
396- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
397
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200398Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
399
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200400Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
401attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
402that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
403
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200404Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
405(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
406
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200407Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
408Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
409terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
410Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
411(Also #1890)
412
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100413Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
414buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
415Also fixes #2166?
416
417Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
418
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200419Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
420stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
421
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100422Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
423possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
424
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100425Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
426#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100427
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200428When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
429case of :bwipe followed by :new.
430
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200431Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
432existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
433Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
434
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200435Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200436
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200437MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
438Jul 4)
439
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200440Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
441Drucker, 2017 May 8).
442This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
443Christian cannot reproduce it.
444
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200445Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
446wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
447Or is this not an actual problem?
448
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200449Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
450
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200451Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
452
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200453Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
454
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200455'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
456#1736)
457
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200458Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
4598, #1690)
460
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100461Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
462manager. Problem with Motif?
463
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200464Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
465(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
466
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200467Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
468it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
469
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200470Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
471Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
472How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
473
474Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
475(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
476
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100477Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
478
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200479Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
480(Diego Carrión, #1867)
481
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200482assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
483it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
484
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200485New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
486
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100487Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
488for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200489
490Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
491(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
492Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
493later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
494Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
495mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200496Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
497mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200498maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200499
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100500Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200501plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
502be defined when the plugin is loaded.
503
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100504Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
505 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
506 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100507
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200508json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200509What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100510
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200511Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
512
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200513import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
514(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
515
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100516When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
517buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
518Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100519
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100520When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
521like the item was not a match for :cnext.
522
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200523Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
524Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100525Another example in #1309
526
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100527When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
528when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
529
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100530Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
531#1330)
532
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200533Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
534
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100535Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
536
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100537GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
538g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
539timer expires.
540
541Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
542
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100543Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
544highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
545
5468 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
547 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
548
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100549Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
550Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
551
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200552Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
553key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
554 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
555 echo keytrans(xx)
556 <C-Home>
557
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100558Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
559(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
560Make a function to check for function-like type?
561
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200562Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
563(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
564
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100565Implement optional arguments for functions.
566 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
567 call Foo(12)
568 call Foo(12, all = 0)
569 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100570
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200571Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
572support, or similar.
573Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
574
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100575Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
576somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
577
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100578Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
579(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
580
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200581Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
582Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
583New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
584
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200585Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200586Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200587Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200588
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100589The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
590"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
591Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
592
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200593Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
594
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200595Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
596about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200597Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
598
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200599Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
600#1053) With patch, does it work?
601
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100602Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
603MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6042017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
605receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
606
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200607":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100608vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
609
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200610Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
611Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100612
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100613Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
614Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
615
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200616Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100617Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200618
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100619"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
620(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
621
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100622Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
623(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100624Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100625
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200626'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
627
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100628Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
629
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200630Patch to fix profiling condition lines. (Ozaki Kiichi,, 2017 Dec 26, #2499)
631
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200632Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
633(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
634
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200635When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
636Apr 23, #1653)
637
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100638Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
639anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
640
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100641When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
642Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
643(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
644
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200645Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200646E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200647
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200648Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
649(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
650
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200651Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
652
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100653Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
654
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100655Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
656
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100657On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
658separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
659
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200660min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
661contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
662
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200663Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
664
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200665Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
666
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200667Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
668
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200669Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
670no longer support.
671
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200672sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
6734#1038)
674
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100675+channel:
676- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
677 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100678- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
679- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
680 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
681- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
682 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
683- Implement |job-term| ?
684- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
685- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
686 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
687 minute. Option to set the droptime.
688- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
689- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
690- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
691 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
692 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
693- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
694 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
695- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
696 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
697 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
698
699Regexp problems:
700- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
701 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
702- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
703 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
704- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
705 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
706 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
707 LC_CTYPE
708- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
709 matches everywhere.
710- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
711 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
712- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
713- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
714 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
715- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
716- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
717 2013 Dec 11)
718- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
719 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
720- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
721- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
722 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
723- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
724- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
725- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
726- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
727 2015 Feb 7)
728- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
729 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
730 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
731 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
732 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
733- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
734- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
735- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
736- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
737 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
738 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
739 col and vcol when moving to another line.
740- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
741 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
742- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
743 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
744 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
745 (2017 May 15, #1252)
746
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200747Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
748
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100749Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
750#1350)
751
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200752Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
7533. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
754Also see #1635.
755
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200756Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200757Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
758use the current behavior.
759Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200760
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200761Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
762New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
763
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200764When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
765command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
766
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100767Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
768change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200769patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
770(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100771
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200772Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
773doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
774Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100775Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200776E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
777
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100778execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200779#1141)
780
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200781cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
782
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200783:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
784
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200785Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
786
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200787When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
788synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
789
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200790Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
791Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200792
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200793Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
794(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
795
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200796ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
797Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200798
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100799Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
800
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200801Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100802(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200803
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200804Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
805Jul 25, #948)
806
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100807Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
808names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
809Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
810the system encoding (usually utf-8).
811
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200812Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
813(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
814Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
815
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200816'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
817
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200818MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
819Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200820
821Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
822Also for ":@.".
823
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200824Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
825
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200826Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
827#1125
828
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200829Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
830times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
831
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200832This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
833(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
834
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200835Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
836
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200837Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
838
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200839Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
840
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200841Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
842
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100843We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
844the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
845
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200846Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
847
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200848When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
849emoji_width table has only one entry.
850
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100851It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
852Reject the value? #710.
853
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200854When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
855Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
856
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200857Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200858Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200859
860Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200861
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200862Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
863No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200864
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200865Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
866(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100867
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200868Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
869
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100870Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
871https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
872Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
873
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100874Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
875but the reference remains valid.
876
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100877Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
878interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
879Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
880interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
881result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200882
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200883Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100884work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200885
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100886Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
887
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200888Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
889
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200890Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
891Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
892
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200893When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
894Apr 17) #762
895
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200896exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
897Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
898
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100899Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
900'iskeyword' for syntax.
901
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100902Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
903(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
904
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100905Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
906
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200907When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
908maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200909Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200910
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100911Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
912It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
913Add configure check?
914Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
915Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
916Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
917
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100918Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
919Do not include the linebreak at the start?
920
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200921Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
922Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
923Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
924
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200925Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
926Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
927
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100928Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
929(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
930
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100931":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
932directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
933
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100934In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
935(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
936
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200937If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
9382016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200939
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100940Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
941(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
942
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100943Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200944Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100945
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100946Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
947Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
948
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200949Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
950
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200951When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
952restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
953Do not trigger the event?
954
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200955Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
956changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
957and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100958Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
959Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
9606, 2nd message)
961Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100962
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100963Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
964(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
965
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100966Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
967Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
968https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
969
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100970Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
971With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
972
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200973Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100974
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100975Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
976
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100977Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100978Only remembers one error.
979
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200980Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
981
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200982Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
983(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200984
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100985Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
986github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100987 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100988Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100989
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200990Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200991
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100992Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100993comparing individual items.
994Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
995Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
996Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
997equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
998
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100999Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1000
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001001MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1002wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1003
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001004Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1005specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1006
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001007Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1008(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1009
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001010Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001011inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001012
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001013Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1014(Luchr, #277)
1015
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001016Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001017'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1018before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001019
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001020C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1021and also line continuation after #include.
1022I can't recommend it though.
1023
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001024Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1025(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1026
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001027Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
102824) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001029Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001030
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001031To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1032library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1033
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001034When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1035is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1036
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001037Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
103830)
1039
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001040MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1041(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1042
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001043The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
104424): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001045
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001046":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1047effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1048
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001049":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
10509)
1051
1052The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1053wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1054
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001055Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001056Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001057
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001058When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1059the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1060
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001061Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001062slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1063inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1064
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001065ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
10662014 Sep 11)
1067
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001068Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1069(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1070
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001071When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1072'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1073
1074Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001075(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001076Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1077- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1078 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1079 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1080- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1081 covered by the above change.
1082So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001083same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001084Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001085
1086Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1087Work in progress.
1088
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001089Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1090when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1091
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001092Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1093Is this right?
1094
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001095Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1096(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1097Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1098
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001099Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1100Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001101
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001102Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1103Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1104
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001105Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1106
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001107When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1108filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1109initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1110
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001111Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1112
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001113Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1114OK to not block marks?
1115
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001116Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1117
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001118Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1119
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001120When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1121(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1122
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001123Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001124
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001125Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1126(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1127
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001128When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1129any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1130
1131Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001132
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001133Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001134
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001135Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
11362015 Feb 6.
1137
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001138Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1139Is this a good solution?
1140
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001141Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1142(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1143
1144Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1145
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001146Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1147Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1148was already defined.
1149(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1150
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001151Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1152
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001153Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001154Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001155Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001156Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001157
1158Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001159
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001160Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1161(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1162
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001163Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1164(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1165
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001166Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +01001167Update 2018 March 12, #2711
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001168
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001169Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1170change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1171them: ":repeats".
1172
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001173Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1174
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001175When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1176these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1177window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1178
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001179Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1180should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1181history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1182Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1183
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001184"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1185Jun 8)
1186
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001187Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1188insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1189
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001190No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1191
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001192Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1193(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1194Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1195arguments.
1196
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001197Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1198
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001199Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001200
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001201Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
12020x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1203New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1204compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1205
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001206Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1207a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1208
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001209xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1210buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1211Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001212Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001213Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001214Also see issue #609.
1215We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001216
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001217Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1218right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001219its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001220
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001221Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1222
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001223This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1224 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1225This neither: (ZyX)
1226 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1227
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001228'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1229Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1230from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001231
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001232Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
12332014 Jun 8)
1234
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001235Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001236Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001237Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1238Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1239User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001240- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1241 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1242 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001243- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1244- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1245 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1246 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1247 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1248 on vim.org.
1249- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1250 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1251- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1252- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1253- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1254- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1255Implementation:
1256- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1257 plugin separate.
1258- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1259 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1260 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1261- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1262 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1263- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1264 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1265 installing.
1266Out of scope:
1267- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1268- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1269 useful).
1270
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001271Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1272normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001273
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001274When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1275menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1276
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001277Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1278(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1279
1280":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1281various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001282
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001283Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001284(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1285
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001286VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1287instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1288
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001289Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001290Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001291
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001292Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001293command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001294
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001295Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1296
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001297Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1298highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001299
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001300The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1301For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1302
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001303Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001304possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001305
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001306Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001307
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001308Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1309
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001310Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1311
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001312Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001313Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001314
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010013157 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1316 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1317 "lucida_console:h8").
1318Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1319
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001320:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1321
1322Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001323With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001324
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001325Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1326
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001327Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1328
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001329When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1330(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1331
1332Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001333Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001334
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001335GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1336(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1337
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001338Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1339registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1340
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001341Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1342
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001343The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1344(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1345Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1346
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001347The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1348- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1349- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1350
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001351Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1352Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1353reliably?
1354
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001355Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1356(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1357
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001358Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1359(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1360
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001361Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
13622013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001363
1364Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1365
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001366Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
13675)
1368
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001369Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1370carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1371
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001372Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1373highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1374
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001375Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001376
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001377Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200137828) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001379
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001380Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1381optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1382
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001383Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1384
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001385Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1386
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001387- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1388 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1389Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001390
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001391Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001392
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001393In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1394process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1395a reboot.
1396
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001397patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1398
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001399Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1400not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001401
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001402Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1403Or use expand('<sid>')?
1404
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001405Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1406
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001407Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001408
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001409Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1410
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001411Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1412
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001413b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
14147)
1415
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001416Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1417compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1418
1419Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1420Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1421vim.bindeval().
1422
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001423Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
14242012 Aug 4)
1425
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001426Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1427(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1428
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001429Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1430(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1431
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001432Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1433But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1434
1435Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1436Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1437Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001438
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001439Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1440loading all files.
1441
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001442MS-Windows resizing problems:
1443- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1444 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1445- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1446 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1447 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001448
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001449'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001450
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001451Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001452of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1453
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001454The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1455Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1456But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001457
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001458Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
1459Aug 16)
1460
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001461When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1462is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1463
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001464URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001465- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001466- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1467 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1468
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001469Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1470(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1471Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1472
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001473Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001474New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001475
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001476When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1477for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1478Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001479
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001480Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1481
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001482Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
148324)
1484
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001485Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1486
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001487Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1488
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001489Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1490Apr 18)
1491
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001492Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1493And one for gui_x11.txt.
1494
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001495":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1496finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1497Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1498
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001499Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1500
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001501Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1502
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001503Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1504they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1505
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001506Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1507
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001508Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1509Nov 20)
1510
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001511Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001512Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001513
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001514`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001515(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1516
1517Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1518
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001519BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1520Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1521
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001522Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1523Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1524
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001525Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1526
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001527On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
15282012 Jun 19)
1529
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001530'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1531'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1532Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001533Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001534
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001535With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1536(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1537need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1538
1539Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1540only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
154121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1542
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001543The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1544support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1545
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001546'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1547highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1548
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001549Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1550New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1551
1552Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1553Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1554
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001555Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1556Jan 19)
1557
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001558Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1559discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1560meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001561
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001562"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001563Oct 26)
1564
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001565Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1566
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001567With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1568register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001569
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001570Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1571
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001572When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1573(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1574
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001575When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1576then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1577from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1578
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001579Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1580":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
158115)
1582
1583Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1584
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001585BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1586cleared. See test64.
1587
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001588Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001589effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001590Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1591
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001592On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
159364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1594right type.
1595
1596string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1597(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1598
1599When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1600(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001601When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1602following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1603(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001604
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001605When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1606doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1607
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001608Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1609
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001610maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1611mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1612
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001613Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1614(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1615
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001616When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1617indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1618the help file.
1619
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001620After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1621Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1622
1623Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1624
1625"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1626
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001627Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1628
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001629Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001630
1631Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
16322010 Dec 18)
1633
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001634With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1635number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1636Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1637
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001638Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1639Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1640
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020016418 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1642Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1643
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001644Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1645one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1646the match scrolls into view.
1647
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020016487 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1649Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1650Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1651
16529 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1653 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1654Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1655
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001656Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1657Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1658
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001659In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1660or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1661sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1662
1663GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1664doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1665
1666GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1667
1668Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1669Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1670
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001671Wish for NetBeans commands:
1672 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1673
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001674Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1675
16767.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1677there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1678do?
1679
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001680Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
168122)
1682
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001683New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1684- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001685- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001686 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1687
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001688"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
16892011 Feb 27)
1690
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001691Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1692^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1693
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001694When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1695exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
16969) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1697
1698g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1699the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1700
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001701Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1702crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1703
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001704Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1705number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1706
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001707Regexp engine performance:
1708- Profiling:
1709 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1710 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1711 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1712 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1713 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1714 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1715- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1716- Performance tests:
1717 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1718 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1719 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1720 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1721 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1722 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1723 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1724 'hlsearch'.
1725 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1726 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1727 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1728 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1729
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001730Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1731Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1732
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001733'beval' option should be global-local.
1734
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001735Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001736
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001737setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001738
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020017397 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1740 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1741 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001742 Is this an update: related to: #179
1743 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1744 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001745
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001746With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
17472010 Oct 24)
1748
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001749Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1750
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001751When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1752Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1753
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001754":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1755
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001756'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1757
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001758C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1759checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1760Issue 46.
1761
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001762Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1763
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001764Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1765gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1766
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001767":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1768accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1769
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001770Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1771setwinvar().
1772
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001773Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1774
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001775When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1776instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1777
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001778Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1779Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1780Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001781
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001782Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1783back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1784
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001785Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001786Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1787
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001788CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1789the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1790FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1791
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001792Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1793Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1794
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001795Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1796Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1797
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001798I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1799Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1800an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001801
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001802Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1803
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001804Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1805non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001806
1807iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1808Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1809or replace with a character and continue?
1810
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001811Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1812Requires configure check for localtime().
1813Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1814
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001815Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1816Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1817
1818Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1819
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001820Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1821Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1822path.
1823
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001824Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001825Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001826
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001827'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1828
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001829":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1830like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1831
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001832Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1833https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001834
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001835Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
18362010 Nov 5)
1837
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001838Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001839Jan 7)
1840
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001841Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1842Only with "vim -u NONE".
1843
1844Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1845
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001846With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1847entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1848Feb 12)
1849
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001850Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1851characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1852
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001853Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1854
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001855Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1856 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1857
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001858Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1859
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001860When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1861Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1862
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001863When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1864not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1865string value.
1866
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001867For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001868line argument -noregister.
1869
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001870When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1871missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1872
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001873When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1874doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001875
1876Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1877(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1878Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1879There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1880Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1881
1882":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1883highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1884to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1885
1886Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1887Probably needs a bit of work.
1888
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001889Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1890Added test, updates, June 23.
1891Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1892With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1893Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1894
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001895List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001896Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1897
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001898Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1899
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001900Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1901
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001902Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1903Sep 1)
1904
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001905Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1906
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001907Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1908on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1909
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001910Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
19112009 Jul 18)
1912
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001913Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1914window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1915Needs more work.
1916
1917Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1918
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001919When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1920few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1921
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001922'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001923(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1924
1925Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1926J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1927
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001928When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1929for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1930
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001931Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1932
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001933Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1934
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001935":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1936because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1937ex_docmd.c.
1938
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001939Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001940Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1941
1942string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1943for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1944
1945Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1946
1947'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
194820)
1949
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001950Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
19512009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1952
1953Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1954
1955Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1956SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1957
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001958When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1959indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1960(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1961
1962Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1963are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1964Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1965Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1966that doesn't have a window.
1967
1968When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1969doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1970
1971getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1972displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1973
1974":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1975
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001976There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1977was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1978perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1979
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001980Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1981
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001982Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1983command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1984
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001985Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1986does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1987
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001988opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1989height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001990very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001991
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001992Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1993(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1994
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001995Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001996(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001998Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1999char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2000
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002001Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2002Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2003
2004This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2005
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002006Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2007messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2008es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
20092009 Jan 26)
2010
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002011When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002012in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2013Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002015Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2016a modeline.
2017
2018Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2019Sergey Khorev)
2020
2021Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2022part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002024After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2025correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2026
2027Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2028(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2029
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002030shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002031'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2032Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2033unix-like shell?
2034
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002035Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2036register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2037(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2038
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002039Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2040Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2041
2042Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2043make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2044
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002045When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2046still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2047
2048"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2049(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2050
2051Update src/testdir/main.aap.
2052
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002053Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2054that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2055ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2056Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2057
2058Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002059Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002060
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002061MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2062doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2063probably causes this.
2064
2065'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020020662009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002067
2068Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2069 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2070 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2071(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2072
2073Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2074":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2075option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2076is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002077
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002078":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2079first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002080Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002081
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002082Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2083laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2084Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002085
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002086Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2087anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2088
2089On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2090doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2091Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2092Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2093
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002094When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2095'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2096fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2097the buffer to be unmodified.
2098Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2099another look at it.
2100
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002101c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2102(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002104You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2105error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2106Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2107at the other match for 0xBF.
2108
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002109When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2110argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2111
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002112Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2113backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2114
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002115When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2116line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2117
2118Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2119position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2120
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002121After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2122(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002123command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002124
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002125":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2126Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2127
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002128When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2129either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2130put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2131
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002132Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2133Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2134Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2135Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2136(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2137
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002138Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2139
2140ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002141
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002142Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2143(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2144escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2145an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002146This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2147July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002148Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2149work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2150
2151When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
215231)
2153
2154Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2155work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2156Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002157
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002158Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2159multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2160(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2161
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002162Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
21632008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002164Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002165
2166Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2167Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2168'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2171Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2172
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002173Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2174Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2175
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020021768 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2177 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2178 several).
2179 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2180 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2181 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2182Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2183
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002184The utf class table is missing some entries:
2185 0x2212, minus sign
2186 0x2217, star
2187 0x2500, bar
2188 0x26ab, circle
2189
2190Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2191line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2192
2193GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2194Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2195
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002196Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2197try the Cocoa version.
2198
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002199Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2200changed or the window is resized.
2201
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002202GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2203the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2204
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002205Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2206Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002207
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002208Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
22091) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2210
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002211C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2212with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2213Try to reproduce at work.
2214
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002215Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2216Is there a way to list all the files first?
2217
2218When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2219result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
222016)
2221
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002222Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2223(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2224
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002225Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2226Await response to question to make the register writable.
2227
2228Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
22291)
2230
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002231In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2232each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2233
2234try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2235
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002236try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2237
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002238":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2239Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2240
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002241Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2242
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002243Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2244Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2245
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002246Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2247Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2248Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002249
2250C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2251(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2252
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002253When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2254and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2255
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002256Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2257 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2258
2259New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2260
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002261":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2262a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2263
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002264'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2265Likonen, March 19)
2266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002267Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2268other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2269
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002270The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2271appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2272matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2273
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002274When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2275character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2276'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2277(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2278
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002279Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2280Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002281
2282More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2283
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002284Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2285http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2286
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002287Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2288back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2289Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002290
2291Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2292No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2293
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002294Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2295terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002296
2297Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2298
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002299Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2300but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2301that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002302
2303When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2304
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002305Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2306Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2307
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002308Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2309popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2310size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2311This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2312
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002313When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2314it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2315
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002316Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2317then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2318files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002319Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2320indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2321":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002322in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2323quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002324Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002325
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002326When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2327parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2328neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2329particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2330Jun 3)
2331However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2332the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002333
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002334A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2335Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2338Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2339
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002340Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2341switch list is noticed:
2342 switch (i)
2343 {
2344 case 1:
2345 foobar:
2346 }
2347
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002348Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2349
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002350Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2351with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2352go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2353moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2354
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002355Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2356Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2357Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2358argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2359(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2360
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002361Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2362(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2363
2364Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2365makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2366.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2367 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2368
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002369Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
23702007 Feb 8)
2371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2373set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002374
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002375Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2376
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002377Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2378Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2379New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2380patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2381
2382Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2383Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2384
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002385Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
23862007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002387Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002388
2389Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002390label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002392Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2393with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2394Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002395
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002396Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2399Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2400only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2401
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002402Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2403Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002404Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002405properly?
2406
2407Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
24082007 Jun 21)
2409
2410When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2411Jun 18)
2412
2413If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2414
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002415Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2416windows. (Adam George)
2417
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002418F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2419modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2420K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002421
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002422In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2423the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2424
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002425C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2426
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002427":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2428
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002429When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002430error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002431
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002432Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2433use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2434
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002435Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2436if_ruby.c.
2437
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002438":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2439
2440The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2441it in keep_msg?
2442
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002443Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002444error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002445name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2446
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002447Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2448longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2451Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2452Also for ":w" without a file name.
2453The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002454
2455"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2456Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2457
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002458VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2459directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2460(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2461
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002462VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2463
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002464input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2465name?
2466
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002467Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2468
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002469When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2470(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2471Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2472will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2473
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002474gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2475This also fails with --remote.
2476
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002477When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
24782008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2479all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2480
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002483When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2484(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2485
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002486Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2487the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2488
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002489GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002491Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2492superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2493
2494Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2495character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2496
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2498Jun 5)
2499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002500Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
25012008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2502Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2503
2504In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2505but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2506Jul 22)
2507
2508There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2509
2510Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2511":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2512somehow? Or use a new function.
2513
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002514Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2515
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2517moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2518that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2519
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002520The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2521
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002522When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002523cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2524the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2527 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2528 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2529 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2530
2531Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2532partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2533
2534In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2535buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2536reload it then?
2537
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002538For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2539
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002540Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2541only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2542
2543Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2544tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2545doesn't contain other directories.
2546
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002547Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2548Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2549
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002550Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2551 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2552 set background=dark
2553This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2554color is, not reset it.
2555
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002556Linux distributions:
2557- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2558 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2559 xfree-xterm".
2560- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2561
2562Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2563start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2564show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2565middle?
2566
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002567Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2568
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002569When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2570current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2571the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2572
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002573When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2574Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2575
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002576Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2577 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2578 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2579 - getting colors in xterm
2580 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2581
2582Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2583Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2584
2585Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2586
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002587A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2588Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2589
2590Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2591Dara, 2006 June 21)
2592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2594number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2595
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002596After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2597the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2598
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002599Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2602Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2603
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002604Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026052008 Sep 29)
2606
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002607In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2608check the result of has("patch13").
2609
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002610Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2611restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2612
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002613Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2614and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2615
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002616Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2617put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2618
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002619Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2620resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2621
2622In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2623can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2624
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002625GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2626maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2627doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002628Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2629visible.
2630
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002631When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2632differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002633
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002634The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2635be only one.
2636
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002637Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002638"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2639name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2640Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002641
2642Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2643(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2646as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2647
2648Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2649Jan 1)
2650
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002651Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
265223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002653
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002654":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2655tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2656Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002658When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2659text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2660latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2661
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002662Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2663no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2664
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002665In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2666VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
26672007 Oct 16)
2668
2669TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2670Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2671
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002672Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002673
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002674When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2675typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2676Sep 3, 11)
2677
2678When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2679respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2680the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2681what happens for the GUI.
2682
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002683":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2684this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2685
2686When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2687Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2688restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2689
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002690Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
26912010 Jun 30)
2692
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002693Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2694'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2695(Kartik Agaram)
2696
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002697
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002698Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002699- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2700 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2701- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2702 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2703 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2704- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2705 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2706 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002707- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2708- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002709
2710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002711More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002712- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2713 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002715- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2716 patch May 10)
2717- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2718 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2719- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2720 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2721- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2722- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2723- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2724 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2725 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002726- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002727- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2728 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2729- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2730 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2731- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2732 21)
2733- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2734 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2735- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2736 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002737- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2738 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002739- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2740 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2741 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2742 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2743 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002744- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002745
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002746Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000027479 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2748 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2749 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2750 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2751 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2752 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2753 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2754 (Alan Schmitt)
2755 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002756 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2757 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000027589 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002759 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000027608 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027617 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2762 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2763 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027648 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002765 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020027667 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002767 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2768- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2769 for multi-byte characters.
2770- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2771- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2772 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2773 been given values.
2774 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
27758 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002776 with an ESC sequence.
2777 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2778 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2779 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027807 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2781 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2782- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2783 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2784 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
27858 Add functions:
2786 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2787 Update 2004 Sep 10
2788 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2789 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002790 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002791 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2792 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2793 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2794 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2795 (2003 May 13)
2796 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2797 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2799 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002800 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2801 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2802 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028037 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2804 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2805- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2806 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
28077 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2808 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028098 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2810 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028117 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28128 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2813 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28147 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2815 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028167 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2817- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2818 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2819 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002820- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2821 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2822- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2823
2824
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002825Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002826- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2827 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028288 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2829 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2830 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2831 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2832 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2833 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028348 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2835 make Vim exit.
28367 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2837 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2838 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
28398 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2840 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2841 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
28426 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2843 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2844 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
28458 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2846 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2847 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2848 names in one buffer???
2849 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2850 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2851 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
28527 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2853 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2854 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002855 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2856 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028577 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2858 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
28597 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
28607 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028617 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2862 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2863 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2864 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
28657 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
28667 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
28677 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2868 to the match with the tag? Option?
28697 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
28707 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2871 (Sayre).
28727 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2873 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028747 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2875 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2876 match. Nvi can do it too.
28777 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2878 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2879 line 1\ line 2\\
2880 line 2\ line 3\\
2881 . line4/
28826 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2883 the way the shell is started?
28846 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2885 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2886
2887
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002888GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028899 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028908 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2891 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2892 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000028938 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2894 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2895 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028969 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2897 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2898 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2899 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002900- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2901 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2902 blocked for now.
2903
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002904
2905Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002906- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2907 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029088 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2909 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2910 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
29118 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2912 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029136 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2914 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000029158 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2916 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2917 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029187 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2919 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2920 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029217 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2922 2004 May 9)
29238 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2924 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2925 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2926 MS-Windows 98?
2927 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2928 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2929 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2930 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029318 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2932 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2933 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2934 doesn't work properly.
29358 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2936 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2937 appears in the right position. (Webb)
29389 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2939 button doesn't give popup menu.
2940 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2941 selection.
2942 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2943 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2944 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
29458 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2946 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2947 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2948 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
29498 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2950 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2951 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029527 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2953 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2954 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
29557 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2956 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002957 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029587 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2959 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029606 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
29618 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2962 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2963 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
29648 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2965 know which keyboard is being used?
29667 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2967 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2968 area (Koloseike).
29698 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2970 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2971 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2972 the font name).
2973
2974
2975Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029766 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2977 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2978 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2979 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2980 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029819 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2982 required and it's missing?
29838 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2984 wrong.
29859 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2986 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029879 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002988 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2989 flag.
29908 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2991 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2992 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
29938 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29946 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2995 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2996 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2997 the tooltips work though...
29987 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2999 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
30008 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3001 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3002 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3003
3004
3005Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010030069 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3007 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030089 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3009 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3010 through files.
30117 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3012 read long file names. (Schroeder)
30134 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3014 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3015 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3016 problem during a refresh.
30175 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3018 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3019 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3020 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3021 colors as it should.
3022 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3023 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3024
3025
3026Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003027- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030287 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3029 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030308 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3031 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3032 (Phillipps)
3033
3034
3035GUI:
30369 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3037 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
30389 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003039 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003040 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
30419 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3042 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
30438 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3044 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
30458 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3046 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3047 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
30488 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3049 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3050 of where it is processing the output.
3051 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
30528 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3053 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010030548 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030558 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3056 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3057 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020030588 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030598 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3060 browse().
30618 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3062 use that code? Or use console dialog.
30638 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3064 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030657 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3066 - regexp on/off
3067 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3068 when all buffers/directory is used:
3069 - filter for file name
3070 when directory is used:
3071 - subdirectory on/off
3072 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030738 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3074 to avoid problems.
30758 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3076 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3077 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
30788 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3079 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3080 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
30818 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3082 up. Set erase character somehow?
30838 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3084 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3085 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3086 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
30878 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
30887 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3089 visible.
30907 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3091 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
30927 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3093 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
30948 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3095 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
30968 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3097 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3098 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3099 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3100- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31014 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3102 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3103 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3104
3105
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003106Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031078 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3108 a good fallback, thus use:
3109 $HOME
3110 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3111 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3112 $USERPROFILE
3113 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3114 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3115 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3116 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031178 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3118 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
31198 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3120 Should work like in the GUI version.
31218 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3122 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
31238 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3124 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
31258 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3126 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3127 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031288 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3129 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3130 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3131
3132
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003133Win32 console:
31349 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3135 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3136 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3137 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3138 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3139 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3140 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3141 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3142 and the file is not saved.
3143 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3144 long name.
31458 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3146 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
31477 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3148 besides the console.
31498 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
31509 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3151 <C-S-i>?
31529 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3153 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
31548 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3155 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003156
3157
3158Amiga:
31598 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3160 sequences.
31619 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3162 backslashes in result.
31638 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3164 all options, using white space separation.
3165
3166
3167Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003168- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031697 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3170 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3171 (Jack)
3172 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031738 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3174 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031758 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
31768 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
31779 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3178 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031799 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003180
3181
3182"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003183- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3184 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003185- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3186 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003187- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3188 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3189 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3190 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3191 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3192 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3193 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000031949 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3195 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000031969 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003197 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3198 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031998 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3200 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3201 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003202 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032037 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3204 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32058 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3206 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3207 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032087 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3209 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003210- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3211 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032128 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3213 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3214 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3215 using the horizontal scrollbar.
32167 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3217 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3218 invocations belong together.
32198 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3220 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
32218 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3222 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3223 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003224 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032258 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3226 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3227 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032288 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3229 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032307 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3231 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3232 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3233 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032347 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3235 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3236 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
32377 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3238 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3239 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
32407 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3241 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032427 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3243 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032449 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3245 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3246 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3247 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3248 script can be called.
32498 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3250 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3251 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032528 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3253 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032548 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003255 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3256 configurable?
32578 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032588 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3259 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032608 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3261 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032628 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3263 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032649 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3265 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3266 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032677 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032688 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3269 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3270 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000032718 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3272 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003273 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3274 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032758 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3276 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
32779 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3278 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3279 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003280 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032817 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3282 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032837 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3284 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3285 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3286 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032878 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003288 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3289 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3290 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3291 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003292 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3293 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003294 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003295 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003296 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3297 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3298 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3299 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3300 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033018 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3302 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33038 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3304 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33058 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3306 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3307 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33088 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3309 'linebreak'.
33108 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3311 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3312 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033139 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3314 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3315 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3316 'magic' in history. (Margo)
33179 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3318 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
33199 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3320 isn't updated).
33219 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
33229 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3323 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3324 cause another redraw, etc.
33258 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3326 must escape special characters in the pattern.
33278 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3328 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3329 ":w!!" for that.
3330 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3331 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003332 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033337 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3334 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3335 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3336 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3337 clipboard)
33387 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3339 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3340 Waggoner)
33418 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3342 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3343 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000033446 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3345 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3346 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3348 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
33498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3350 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3351 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000033528 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033538 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3354 (e.g., ":w").
33558 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3356 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033578 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3358 script in do_cmdline().
33598 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3360 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3361 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3362 changes.
33638 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3364 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
33658 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3366 check for file marks. This can be slow.
33677 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3368 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3369 needed.
3370 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
33718 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3372 to skip catch_signals()?
33739 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3374 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3375 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3376 text?
33778 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3378 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
33798 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3380 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
33819 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3382 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3383 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3384 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3385 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
33867 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3387 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3388 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3389 in the list?
33908 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3391 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3392 instead of on button down.
33938 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
33949 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3395 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003396 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3397 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033988 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3399 character is typed.
34008 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3401 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
34028 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3403 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34048 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3405 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3406 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3407 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3408 cygwin bash.
34097 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3410 Remember flags for backreferences.
34117 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3412 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34137 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3414 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34158 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3416 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34177 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3418 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034197 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3420 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3421 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
34227 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3423 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
34248 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3425 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3426 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
34277 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3428 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003429
3430
3431I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
34329 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3433 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3434 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003435
3436
3437Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003438- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3439 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3440 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003441- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3442 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3443 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3444 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3445 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3446 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003447 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003448- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3449 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003450 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003451 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3452 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3453 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003454- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3455 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3456 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3457 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3458 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3459- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3460 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3461 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3462- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3463 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003464- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003465- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3466 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3467 character gets the highlighting.
3468- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3469 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3470- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3471 (Jennings)
3472- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3473- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3474 errors. How do we get the rest?
3475- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003476- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003477 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003478- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3479 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3480 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3481- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3482 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3483 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3484 (Benzinger).
3485- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3486 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3487 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3488- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3489 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3490- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3491 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3492- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3493 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3494 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3495 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3496 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3497 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3498- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3499 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3500 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003501- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3502 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3503 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003504- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3505 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3506 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3507- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3508 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3509- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3510 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003511- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3512 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3513- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3514 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3515 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3516 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3517 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3518- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3519 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3520 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3521- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3522 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3523 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003524- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3525 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 +00003526- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3527 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3528 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3529 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3530 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3531- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3532 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3533
3534--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3535 *extensions-improvements*
3536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003537Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3538- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3539 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3540 calling a function.
3541 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3542 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003543- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3544 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003545- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3546 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3547 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3548 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3549 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3550 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003551 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003552- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3553 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3554 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003555- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3556 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035578 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3558 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3559 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3560 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003561- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3562 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003563
3564
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003565Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035668 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3567 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035688 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3569 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000035708 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3571 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035728 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035739 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3574 - change to cursor position and curswant
3575 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3576 - how it works for folded lines
3577 - how it works with multi-byte characters
35789 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3579 work too.
35808 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3581 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3582 text.
35838 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
35847 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3585 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
35867 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3587 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003588 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003589- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3590
3591
3592Help:
3593- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3594 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3595- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3596 to the other matches.
3597- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003598- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3599 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3600 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3601 default contents.
3602- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3603 height for the help window (and other windows).
3604- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3605- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3606- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3607
3608
3609User Friendlier:
36108 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3611 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3612 Briscoe)
36138 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36148 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3615 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3616 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36178 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3618 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3619- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3620 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003621- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
36229 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3623 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3624 item?).
3625 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036268 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000036277 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3628 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3629 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000036308 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3631 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3632 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3633 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634
3635
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003636Tab pages:
36379 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036387 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3639 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036408 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000036418 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036427 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036437 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003644 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036458 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3646 tab pages.
36477 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036487 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3649 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003650
3651
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003652Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003653- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3654 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3655- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3656 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3657 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3658- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3659 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003660- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3661 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3662 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003663- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3664 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3665 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003666- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3667 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003668- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003669 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3670 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000036718 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3672 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
36738 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3674 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
36758 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3676 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003677 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003678 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3679 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3680 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3681 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003682- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3683 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003684- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003685- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3686 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003687- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003688 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003689- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003690 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003691- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3692 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003693- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3694 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3695- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003696 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003697 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3698 in the affix file separately.
3699 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003700 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003701 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3702 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3703 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3704- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3705 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3706 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3707 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3708 Alternative:
3709 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3710 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3711 affix which is required.
3712- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003713 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003714- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3715 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3716 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003717- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3718 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003719- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3720 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3721- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037228 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3723 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3724 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3725 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003726- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3727 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3728 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3729 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037308 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3731 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037328 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
37338 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3734 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037357 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
37368 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3737 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3738 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3739 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003740
3741
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003742Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020037439 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3744 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020037458 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003746 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003747
3748Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003749 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3750 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037518 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3752 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000037538 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037548 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3755 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3756 user aware of this?
37578 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3758 commands skip over a closed fold.
37598 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
37608 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037617 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003762- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3763 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3764 missing line goes unnoticed.
3765 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003766- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3767 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3768 smoother?
3769- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3770 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003771- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3772 file can contain:
3773 args version.c main.c
3774 edit version.c
3775 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003776- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003777- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3778 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003779- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3780 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003781- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3782 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003783- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003784
3785Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003786- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3787 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3788 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3789 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037909 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3791 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3792 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3793 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037949 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3795 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3796 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3798 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3799 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3800 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3801 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3802 item.
38038 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003804 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3805 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038068 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3807 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003808 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003809 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038108 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3811 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038128 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3813 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3814 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038157 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3816 so that the user can fix the problem.
38178 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3818 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038199 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
38208 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038218 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
38228 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038237 Searching and composing characters:
3824 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003825 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3826 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038278 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
38288 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
38298 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3830 characters.
38318 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
38328 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3833 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
38347 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3835 'display' option to specify this.
38367 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3837 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3838- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3839 fontselector somehow.
3840- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3841 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3842- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3843 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3844- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3845 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3846 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3847 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3848 if a font exists?
3849- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003850 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3852 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003853- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3854 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3855 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3856 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3858 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003859 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003860- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3861 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3862 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3863 But it's very complicated...
3864
3865
3866Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038677 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003868- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3869- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3870 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003871- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3872 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003873- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3874- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3875 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003876- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3877 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3879 units as for the margins.
3880- Support right-to-left text?
38818 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3882 color.
3883
3884
3885Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038868 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3887 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
38888 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3889 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
38908 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3891 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000038927 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3893 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038948 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3895 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3896 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038977 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3898 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3899 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039008 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39019 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3902 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039037 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3904 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039057 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3906 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039078 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3908 change this for each release.
39098 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3910 pattern, but not in the body.
39118 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3912 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3913 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039148 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039158 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003916 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3917 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039188 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3919 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
39208 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3921 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003922 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039238 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3924 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3925 used.
39268 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3927 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
39288 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3929 re-insert the [] if possible.
39308 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3931 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000039328 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3933 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3934 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3935 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3936 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039378 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3938 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
39398 Support for deleting syntax items:
3940 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3941 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3942 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
39438 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3944 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3945 a '<'. (Fleiner)
39467 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3947 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3948 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
39497 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3950 detected.
39518 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003952 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039538 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3954 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039558 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
39568 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
39577 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3958 ":mkvimrc".
39598 Improve c.vim:
3960 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3961 "c_strict_ansi".
3962 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
39638 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3964 current line while in Insert mode.
39658 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3966 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
39678 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3968 display position.
39698 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3970 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3971 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
39728 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3973 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3974 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000039757 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3976 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3977 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3978 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3979 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039807 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3981 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3982 E.g. for this html:
3983 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039847 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
39857 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3986 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039878 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
39888 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039897 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3990 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3991 completion?
39928 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3993 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
39947 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3995 select one of the sets.
39968 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3997 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3998 2, etc.
39998 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4000 highlighting (for "." command).
40018 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4002 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40038 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40047 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4005 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40066 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4007 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4008- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4009 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4010- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004011- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4012 (for comment blocks).
4013- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4014 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4015 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4016 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4017 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4018 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4019 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4020 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4021 (Campbell)
4022 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4023 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
40247 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4025 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
40267 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4027 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4028 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
40297 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4030 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4031 messages. And external commands?
40328 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4033 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
40347 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4035 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4036
4037
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004038Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040398 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4040 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004041 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040427 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4043 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4044 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040458 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4046 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004047- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4048 2006 Dec 11.
4049- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020040508 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4051 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4052 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4053 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4054 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4055 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000040567 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4057 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040588 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010040598 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4060 can be the plugin name.
4061 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4062 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040637 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4064 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4065 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4066 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4067 autocommand.
4068 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4069 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4070 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4071 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040727 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4073 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040746 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4075 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040768 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004077 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4078 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004079 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4080 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4081 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004082 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4083 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4084 3 2002
4085 Only add this when also implemented for
4086 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4087 be used.
4088 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004089 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4090 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4091 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4092 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4093 File.Open..." argument.
4094 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4095 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4096 with properties instead.
4097 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4098 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4099 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004100 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004101 crypt() encrypt string
4102 decrypt() decrypt string
4103 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4104 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004105 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004106 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004108 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004109 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004110 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4111 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004112 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4113 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004114 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004115 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
4116 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004117 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4118 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4119 to allow the library to execute a command or
4120 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041217 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4122 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
41238 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4124 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041258 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4126 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041278 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020041289 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004129 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
41306 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041318 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4132 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041338 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4134 option or environment variable.
41358 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041368 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004137 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041387 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4139 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041408 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4141 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
41428 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
41438 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4144 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4145 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4146 charwise({expr}).
41477 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4148 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4149 buffer for this?
4150 result = scratch(string, command)
4151 result = apply(string, command)
4152 result = execute(string, command)
4153 "command" would use <> notation.
4154 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
41557 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004156
4157
4158Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000041596 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4160 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4161 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4162 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4163 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4164 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4165 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004166
4167
4168Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041697 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4170 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041717 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4172 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4173 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4174 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041758 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4176 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4177 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4178 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004179 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041808 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
41819 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
41828 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
41837 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4184 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
41858 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4186 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4187 when starting up in a color terminal.
41888 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4189 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041908 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4191 function be improved?
41928 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4193 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4194 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4195 this be improved?
41968 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4197 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000041987 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4199 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042007 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4201 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42027 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4203 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042047 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4205 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4206 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4207 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4208 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4209 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4210 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042118 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4212 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4213 using strcmp() too often?
42147 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4215 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4216 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4217 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4218 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4219 the two blocks to the memfile block.
42207 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4221 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4222 with an argument that can be messed with.
4223 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4224 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
42257 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4226- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
42278 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4228 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4229- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4230 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4231- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4232- Do profiling on:
4233 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004234 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4235 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4236 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4237 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4238 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4239 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004240 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042417 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4242 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4243 changed).
4244 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4245 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4246- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4247- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4248 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4249- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4250 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4251 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004252- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4253- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4254 cursor is right of the screen.
42558 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4256 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4257
4258
4259Code size:
42608 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4261- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4262 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
42638 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
42648 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4265 it.
42667 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4267 left out.
42688 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4269 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010042708 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271
4272
4273Messages:
42748 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4275 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
42768 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4277 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
42788 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4279 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004280- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4281 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4282- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042838 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4284 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042859 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4286 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4287 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4288 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4289 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042908 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4291 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
42928 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4293 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4294 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4295 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4296 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4297 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004298- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004299 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043008 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4301 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4302 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4303 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4304 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4305 error messages, printing text, etc.
43068 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4307 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4308 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4309
4310
4311Screen updating:
43127 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4313 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4314 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4315- screen_line():
4316 - insert/delete character stuff.
4317 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4318- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4319 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4320- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4321 waiting for a character.
43228 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4323 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4324 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004325
4326Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020043278 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043286 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4329- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4330 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4331 windows.
43327 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4333 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4334 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4335- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4336 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4337 (Goldfarb)
4338- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4339 bound windows.
4340- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4341 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004342- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004343- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4344 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4345 of lines but not with a single line).
4346
4347
4348Autoconf:
43498 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
43508 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4351 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4352- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4353 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4354- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4355- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4356- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4357
4358
4359Perl interface:
43608 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043617 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
43627 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
43636 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4364
4365
4366Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020043678 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4368 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043696 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4370 :libload internal-name libname
4371 :libunload internal-name
4372 :liblist
4373 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4374 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4375 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
43766 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4377
4378
4379Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000043809 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4381 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4382 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4383 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4384 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043858 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4386 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4387 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004388 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004389 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043907 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4391 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4392 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043938 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
43948 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4395 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043967 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4397 window for each tag.
43987 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
43997 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4400 bottom" search message.
44017 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4402 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4403 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004404- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4405- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004406- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4407 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4408 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044097 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4410 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4411 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4412 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44137 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4414 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4415 :tagargs clear
4416 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4417 matching).
44187 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4419 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4420 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4421 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
44227 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4423 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
44247 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4425 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4426 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427
4428
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004429Win32 GUI:
44308 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4431 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044327 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4433 (Mike McCollister)
44348 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4435 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4436 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4437 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4438 common part of the path.
44398 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
44408 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4441 gettext and menus work.
44428 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4443 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004444 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
44468 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4447 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
44488 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4449 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
44507 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4451 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
44527 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
44537 <Esc> should close a dialog.
44547 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4455 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4456 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4457 prompts.
44587 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4459 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4460 the file added into an already running Vim.
44617 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4462 functions to find the window title.
4463
4464
4465GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020044668 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004467- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4468 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
44697 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
44708 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
44716 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
44728 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4473 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
44749 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
44757 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
44768 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4477 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
44788 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4479 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4480 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
44818 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4482 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
44838 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4484 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4485 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4486 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
44888 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4489 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044907 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4491 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4492 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044938 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
44948 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004495 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044968 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
44978 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
44988 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4499 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4500 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45017 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4502 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4503 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45047 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4505 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45067 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4507 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4508 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4509 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045107 Should support multi-column menus.
4511- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4512 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4513- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45148 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45156 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4516 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45177 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45187 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4519 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4520 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
45217 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
45228 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4523 name can be chosen free.
45247 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4525 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
45266 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4527 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4528 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4529 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4530 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4531 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4532 things.
45337 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4534 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045357 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004536 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4538 where it was started from?
45397 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4540
4541
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020045439 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4544 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004545- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045468 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4547 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4548 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4549 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
45508 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4551 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000045527 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4553 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4554 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4555 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045567 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045578 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4558 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045598 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4560 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4561 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045627 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4563 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4564 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045658 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4566 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4567 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045688 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4569 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045708 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045716 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4572 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045737 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045747 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004575 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4576 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4577 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045785 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4579 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4580 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
45817 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4582 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4583 file.
45848 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4585 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4586 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004587- Add events to autocommands:
4588 Error - When an error happens
4589 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004590 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004591 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004592 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004593 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4594 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004595 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004596 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004597 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4598 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4599 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4600 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004601 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004602 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4603 the char.
4604 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4605 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4606 file from CVS).
4607 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4608 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4609 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4610 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4611 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4612 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004613 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4614 changes.
4615 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4616 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004617- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004619 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004620 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4621 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4622 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4623 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4624 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4625
4626
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004627Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004628- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4629 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004630- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4631 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4632 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4633 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4634 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004635- Ideas from others:
4636 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4637 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4638 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4639 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4640 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4641 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4642 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4643 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4644 Uses Perl for C++.
4645 Uses ctags to find the info:
4646 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4647 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4648 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4649 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4650 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4651 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004652 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004653 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4654- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4655
4656
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004657Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004658- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000046597 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4660 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046617 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4662 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4663 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046648 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4665 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
46669 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4667 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4668 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046698 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4670 - ignore/match case
4671 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046728 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4673 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4674 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4675 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4676 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4677 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046788 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046797 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4680 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046818 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4682 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4683 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4684 Should work for C++ and Java.
4685 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
46867 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
46877 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4688 instead of words.
46898 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
46908 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4691 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
46928 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4693 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004694- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4695 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004696- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4697 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4698 wildcards in the file name)?
4699- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4700- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4701- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4702 be in another file).
4703- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4704- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4705- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4706 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4707- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4708- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4709- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004710- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4711
4712
4713Command line editing:
47147 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4715 line.
47168 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4717 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4718 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4719- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4720 lines wraps to start of line).
4721- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4722 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4723 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4724 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4725 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4726 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4727 cmdwin does now already.
4728 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4729 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4730 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4731 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4732 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4733 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4734 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4735 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4736 Problems:
4737 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4738 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4739 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4740 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4741 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4742 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4743 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4744 character in first column?
4745 - Implementation ideas:
4746 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4747 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4748 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4749 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4750 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4751 Mode.
4752
4753
4754Command line completion:
47558 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
47568 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4757 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
47588 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4759 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047608 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4761 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047627 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4763 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004764- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4765- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4766 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047678 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4768 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
47697 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4770 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4771- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4772 identifiers (Webb).
47738 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4774 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
47757 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4776 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4777- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4778 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4779- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4780 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4781 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004782
4783
4784Command line history:
4785- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4786 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4787 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004788 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004789- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4790 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4791
4792
4793Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000047949 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4795 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4796 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047978 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4798 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4799 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4800 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4801 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048028 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4803 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4804 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048057 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4806 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004807- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048087 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4809 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4810- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4811 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4812 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4813 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4814 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4815 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4816- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4817 Normal mode.
4818- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4819 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4820 are used.
4821- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4822- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4823- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4824
4825
4826'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010048279 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4828 char * veryLongName =
4829 "very long string"
4830 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048318 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048328 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4833 long_type foo =
4834 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048358 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4836 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004837 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4839 func(
4840 new String[] {
4841 "asdf",
4842 "asdf"
4843 }
4844 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048458 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4846 (Chow Loong Jin)
4847 namespace {
4848 int
4849 func(int arg) {
4850 }
4851 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048526 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4853 func( arg1
4854 , arg2
4855 , arg3
4856 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000048577 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004858 func(
4859 int x) // indent like "(4"
4860 {
4861 if (a
4862 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048639 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4864 if (a)
4865 {
4866 if (b)
4867 {
4868 // {
4869 }
4870 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004871 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4872 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4873 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004874- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004875 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48767 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4877- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4878 line).
4879- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4880- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4881 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004882- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4883 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4884- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4885 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4886- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4887- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4888 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
48898 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4890 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4891 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4892- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4893- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4894 lines start with "\item".
4895- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4896 /* here is a comment that
4897 is just autoindented, and
4898 nothing else */
4899- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
49007 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4901 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4902 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004903 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004904
4905
4906Java:
49078 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4908 Odendahl?
49098 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4910 "[i" commands and friends.
4911- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4912 (Jason)
4913- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4914 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4915
4916
4917'comments':
49188 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4919 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4920 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4921 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004922 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4923 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049247 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4925 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
49267 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
49276 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4928 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4929 regexp is used.
49308 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4931 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4932
4933
4934Virtual edit:
49358 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049367 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4937
4938
4939Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049408 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049418 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000049428 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004943 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000049448 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4945 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004946 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4947 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000049488 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049498 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4950 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049518 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4952 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4953 the end of the line or before a ".".
49547 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4955 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
49567 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4957 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049586 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
49595 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4960 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4961 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4962 cursor is on.
4963
4964
4965Select mode:
49668 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4967 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
49687 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004969 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049707 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4971 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4972 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4973 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4974 normal_cmd().
4975 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4976 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4977
4978
4979Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020049808 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4981 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4983 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4984 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004985- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4986 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4987 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049888 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004989 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004990 where needed.
49917 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4992 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
49937 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4994 of each selected line.
49958 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
49968 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4997 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4998 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
49998 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5000 Ben Godfrey)
50017 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5002 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50037 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5004 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050057 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005006 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005007 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50088 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5009 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50107 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5011 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5012 option!
50137 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5014 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5015 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5016 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5017 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5018 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5019 without changing the column.
50206 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050217 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5022 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050236 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5024 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
50256 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050266 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005027 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005028 or other special character.
50296 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5030
5031
5032More advanced repeating commands:
5033- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005034- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005035- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005036 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5037 "y." will repeat last yank.
5038 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5039 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5040 and/or pick an older command.
5041- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5042
5043
5044Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050458 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5046 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5047 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
50488 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
50497 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5050 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050518 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5052 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
50538 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000050547 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050558 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5056 entering search strings.
50578 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5058 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5059 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050608 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5061 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050627 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050637 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5064 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050656 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5066 abbreviations are to be used.
5067- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5068 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5069 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005070- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5071 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5072 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5073 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5074 Or implicit:
5075 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005076- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5077 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5078 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005079- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5080 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5081- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5082 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
50836 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5084 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5085 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5086 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005087- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5088 non-replace Insert mode?
5089- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005090- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5091- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5092 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5093- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005094 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005095- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5096 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5097- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5098- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5099 ":freekeys".
5100- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5101
5102
5103Incsearch:
5104- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5105- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5106 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5107 up every time.
5108- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5109 folds when going to another line.
5110- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5111 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5112 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5113 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005114
5115
5116Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051179 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051188 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005119 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005120 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005121 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005122 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051239 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5124 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051258 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5126 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000051278 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5128 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5129 Perl does it this way:
5130 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5131 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5132 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5133 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051348 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5135 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5136 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000051377 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5138 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000051398 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5140 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051417 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005142 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5143 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5144 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051457 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005146 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051477 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5148 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051498 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5150 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
51518 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5152 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020051537 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154 example.
51558 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5156 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5157- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5158 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5159 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5160 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051618 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5162 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5163 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
51647 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5165 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000051667 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5167 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051688 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5169 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051708 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5171 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051728 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5173 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5174 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5175 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005176- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5177 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5179 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5180- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5181 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5182 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5183 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051848 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5185 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5187 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051888 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5189 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5190 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005191- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5192 i ignore case
5193 I use case
5194 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5195 v use Vi regexp syntax
5196 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5197 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5198 Perl uses these too:
5199 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5200 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5201 o compile only once (Perl only)
5202 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5203 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5204 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5205 following command.
5206 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5207- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5208 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5209 for search string)?
52107 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5211 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5212- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5213 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5214- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5215 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5216- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5217- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005218 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005219 a for the next file in the argument list
5220 f for file in the buffer list
5221 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005222 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5223 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005224 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5225 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5226- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052277 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005228 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052297 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5230 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5231 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5232 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
52336 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5234 effects.
52357 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5236 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5237 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000052387 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005239 Also ":dselect".
5240
5241
5242Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052439 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5244 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5245 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052469 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5247 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020052488 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5249 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052508 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5251 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5252 timestamp?
5253 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5254 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005255- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5256 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005257- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5258 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5259 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
52608 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5261 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5262 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5263 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
52648 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5265 only remember the lines that really changed.
52667 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5267 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5268 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5269 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005270- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5271 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5272- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5273 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5274- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5275 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5276 [-99].
5277- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5278- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005279- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5280 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5281
5282
5283Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052847 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5285 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5286 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5287 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
52888 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5289 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
52908 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5291 inode too.
52927 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005293 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5294 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052957 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5296 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5297- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5298 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5299- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5300 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
53017 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5302 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
53037 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5304 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
53058 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053067 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5307 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053088 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5309 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5310 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005311
5312
5313Swap (.swp) files:
53148 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5315 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5316 there are short file name problems.
53178 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5318 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
53198 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
53208 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005321 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005322 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5323 file the same as the actual file?
5324 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053257 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5326 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
53277 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005328 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5330 enough room.
53317 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5332 or /var/preserve.
5333- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5334 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5335- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005336 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005337- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5338 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5339 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5340 cached list of which line is where.
5341
5342
5343Viminfo:
53447 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5345 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5346 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053478 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5348 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5349 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053508 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5351 name. (Schild)
53528 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
53538 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053548 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053558 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5356 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5357 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5358 this?
53597 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
53607 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5361 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
53626 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5363 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5364 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5365- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5366 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5367
5368
5369Modelines:
53708 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5371 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5372 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005373- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5374 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5375 'shiftwidth'.
5376- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5377 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005378- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5379 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5380 modeline setting.
5381- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5382 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5383- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5384 .cpp files.
5385- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5386 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5387- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5388 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5389
5390
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005391Sessions:
53928 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5393 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
53947 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5395 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053968 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5397 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053988 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5399 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5400 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000054017 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5402 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000054037 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005404
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005405
5406Options:
54077 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5408 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054098 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5410 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5411 also be supported.
54128 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5413 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5414 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
54157 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
54167 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5417 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005418 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005419
5420
5421External commands:
54228 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5423 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
54244 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5425 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5426 -f).
54274 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
54284 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5429 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
54304 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5431
5432
5433Multiple Windows:
54347 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
54358 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5436 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
54377 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5438 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5439 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000054407 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5441 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000054427 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5443 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054446 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5445 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005446 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
54487 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5449 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5450 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5451 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5452- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5453 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5454 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5455 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5456
5457
5458Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054598 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054608 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5461 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054628 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 +000054638 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5464 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
54658 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5466 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5467 the mark was set.
54687 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5469 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5470 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5471 ":browse marks"?
54726 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054737 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5474 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
54757 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5476 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
54777 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5478 command).
54797 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5480 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5481 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5482 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
54835 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5484 mappings.
54856 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5486 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5487 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5488
5489
5490Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020054917 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005492 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005493- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5494 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000054958 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054967 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5497 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5498
5499
5500Writing files:
5501- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5502 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5503 shortname conversion.
55048 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
55058 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5506 file.
55078 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5508 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5509 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055106 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5511 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
55126 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5513 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
55146 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5515 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055168 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
55187 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5519 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
55207 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5521 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5522 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5523 waiting for a character to be typed).
55248 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5525 line of the window, like "[time]".
5526 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5527 Automatic and/or with a command.
5528
5529
5530Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000055318 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5532 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055338 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5535- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5536- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
55378 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5538 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005539- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005540 :s///N substitutes N times.
5541- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5542 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5543 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
55447 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5545 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5546 last line column 5.
55475 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5548 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5549 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5550 (Stanislav Sitar)
5551
5552
5553Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055548 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
55557 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
55568 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5557 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5558 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005559- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5560- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5561 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5562- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5563- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5564
5565
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566Argument list:
55676 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5568 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5569 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
55706 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5571
5572
5573Registers:
55748 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055758 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5576 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5577 for every line.
55786 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5579 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5580 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5581- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5582 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5583- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5584 leader when line wraps?
5585- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5586 line in the range.
5587- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5588 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
55898 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5590 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005591
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005592
5593Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055948 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055958 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055967 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
55977 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5598
5599
5600Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000056017 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5602 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5603 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5604 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5605 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5606 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5607 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005608 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000056097 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5610 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000056117 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5612 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056138 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5614 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056157 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5616 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5617 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005618- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005619 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056207 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5621 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056227 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5623 window as a buffer-tab selection.
56248 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056257 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5626 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
56278 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5628 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056296 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056308 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5631 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5632 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5633 in this Vim.
56348 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005635 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056368 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5637 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5638 have it apply to the following command.
56398 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5640 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5641 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5642 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056437 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5644 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056457 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5646 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5647 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5648 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056496 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
56508 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
56519 Support ACLs on more systems.
56527 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5653 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056547 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5655 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5656 (truncated to fit in the space).
56577 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
56588 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
56598 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5660 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000056617 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005662 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
56637 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5664 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056657 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056667 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
56677 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056688 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
56698 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5670 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5671 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5672 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
56738 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056748 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056758 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5676 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5677 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5678 does something like this. (Shah)
56797 Use growarray for replace stack.
56807 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5681 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
56823 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056837 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5684 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056857 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5686 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005687- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5688- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5689- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5690- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
56917 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5692 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5693- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5694 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005695- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005696- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5697 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5698- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5699 call "play newbeep.au").
5700- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5701 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5702 (Bhatt).
5703- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5704 blockwise registers).
5705- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5706 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5707- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5708 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5709 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5710 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005711- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057127 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5713 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5714- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5715 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5716 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5717 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5718 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057198 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5720 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057218 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5722 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5723 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5724 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5725 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5726- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005727- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057287 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5729 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5730- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5731 not in column 1.
57326 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5733 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
57347 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5735- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005736- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005737 :redir #> bufname
5738 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005739- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5740 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005741- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5742 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5743 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
57446 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5745 console? (Klaus Hast)
5746- Add :delcr command:
5747 *:delcr*
5748 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5749 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5750 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5751 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5752 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5753 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5754- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5755- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5756 characters from 'isprint'.
5757- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5758- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5759 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5760- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5761 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5762 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5763- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5764- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5765 Nvi).
5766- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5767 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
57687 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5769- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5770 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
57716 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5772- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5773 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5774 macro).
5775- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005776- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5777 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5778- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
57798 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005780- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5781- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5782- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5783 if it is not the first or last window.
5784- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5785 there is one) instead of the file itself.
57867 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5787 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5788 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5789- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5790- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005791 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005792 many percent down the windows).
5793- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5794 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5795 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005796 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005797- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5798 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5799- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5800 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5801- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5802- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5803- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5804 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058058 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5806 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5807 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5808 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5809 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5811 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5812- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005813 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5814- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005815 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5816 (Webb).
5817- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005818 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5820 hex codes like 0xff).
5821- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5822 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5823 the last TYPED command.
5824- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5825- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5826- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5827 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005828- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058298 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5830 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5831 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005832- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833 trailing '.'.
5834- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5835 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5836 find_file_in_path().
5837- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5838 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5839- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5840- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5841 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5842- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005843 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005844- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5845 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5846 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5848- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5849- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5850 to the minimal size.
5851- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5852- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5853- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5854- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5855- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5857 entered)?
5858- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5859 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005860- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005861- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5862- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5863- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5864- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5865- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5866 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005867- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058688 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5869 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5870 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5871 or in octal.
58727 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5873 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005874- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005875 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5876- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5877- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5878 insert line command).
5879- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5880- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5881- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5882- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5883- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5884 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005885- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005886 yet.
5887- Implement 'redraw' option.
5888- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5889 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058907 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5891 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005892 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5893 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058948 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5895 do it.
5896- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5897- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5898 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5899- Add text justification option.
5900- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5901- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5902 off".
5903- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5904- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5905- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005906 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005907- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005908- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5910 commands.
5911- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5912- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5913- :table command (Webb)
5914- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005915- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5916- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5917- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5918- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5919- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5920 (Demirel).
5921- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5922- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5923 for use in macro's and the like.
5924- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005925 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005926- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005927 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005928- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005929 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005930 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5931- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5932 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005933- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934 mkopttab to make option table?
5935- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5936 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5937- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5938 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005939- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005940 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5941- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5942 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005943- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059448 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5945 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5946 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5947 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5948 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059498 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5950 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5951 (Netherton)
59526 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5953 space after "(", for example.
59545 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5955 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5956 (Servatius Brandt)
5957
5958
5959From Elvis:
5960- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5961- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005962- Search patterns:
5963 \@ match word under cursor.
5964 but do:
5965 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5966 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
59678 ":window" command:
5968 :win + next window (up)
5969 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5970 :win - previous window (down)
5971 :win -- idem, wrapping
5972 :win nr to window number "nr"
5973 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
59747 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5975 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5976
5977
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005978From xvi:
5979- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5980- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5981
5982
5983From vile:
5984- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5985- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5986 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5987
5988
5989Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005990- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5991 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01005992 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005993 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5994 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005995- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5996 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5997- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5998 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5999 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6000 current layout mirrored.
6001- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6002- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6003 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6004- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6005- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6006 font in each top-level window.
6007- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6008- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6009- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6010- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6011 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006012- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6013 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6014- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6015 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
60164 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6017 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6018 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6019 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006020 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6022 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6023- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6024 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6025 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6026
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006027vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
6028vim: set fo+=n :