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Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Apr 20
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010041Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020042more tests for # comments:
43 check all calls to ends_excmd() and test that space before # is needed.
44 next: ex_findpat()
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +020045func and partial types:
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +020046- Calling unknown user function does not give proper error message:
47 assert_equal('123text', RefDef2Arg()) typo for "RetDef2Arg"
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010048- "func" inside "vim9script" doesn't work? (Ben Jackson, #5670)
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +020049- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
50- define function and create funcref in one step:
51 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
52 body
53 enddef
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020054- Test that a script-local function in Vim9 script cannot be deleted.
55- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
56 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
57 defined.
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +020058Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020059- When wildcards are expanded, find `=expr` and evaluate it before invoking
60 the command. For example: :edit `=filename`
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010061- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020062- Check all Ex commands, give error if they use an expression and should be
63 compiled.
64- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
65 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010066- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010067- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
68- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010069- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
70 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020071 Can we share the code for :let between direct execution and compiling?
72- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010073- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010074- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
75- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
76- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010077- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010078- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010079- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
80 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
81- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010082- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010083- can use func as reference:
84 def SomeFunc() ...
85 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010086- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
87 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010088- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +020089- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010090- implement class
91- implement interface
92- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010093- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
94 EVAL expr
95 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
96
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020097Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010098- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
99 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
100 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
101 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100102- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
103 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200104- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100105- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100106- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
107 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
108 the way. (#5737)
109 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200110- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100111- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
112 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
113- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200114- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200115 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100116- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
117 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200118- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100119 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100120- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200121
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200122Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200123- Patch to fix that split / join does not update properties properly (Axel
124 Forsman, #5839) Alternative: #5875.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200125- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
126 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100127- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100128- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100129- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
130 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100131- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100132- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200133
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100134'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200135- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
136 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100137- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
138 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200139- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200140- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200141- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
142 isn't one?
143 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
144
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200145Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100146- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200147- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100148- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200149
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200150Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200151- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100152- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
153 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200154- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100155- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200156- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
157 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
158 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100159- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100160- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
161 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100162 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100163 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200164
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200165Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200166- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
167 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
168 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
169 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100170- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
171 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
172 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100173- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100174- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
175 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200176- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
177 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200178- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200179- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200180- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
181 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200182- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
183 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
184- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
185 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200186- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
187 is disabled.
188- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
189- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
190 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200191- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
192 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
193 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
194- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
195- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
196 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
197- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
198 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200199
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200200Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200201E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200202E856, E857, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200203
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200204Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
205autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
206 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
207 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
208 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
209 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
210 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
211The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
212
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100213Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
214Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100215
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200216Patch to support ipv6 for channel. (Ozaki Kiichi, #5893)
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100217
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100218Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100219
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100220Patch to improve Windows terminal support. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5546)
221Ready to include.
222
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100223Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
224
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100225Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
226
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100227Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
228(Max Rumpf, #5468)
229
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100230File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
231
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200232Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
233manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
234Athena is OK.
235Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
236
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200237Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200238Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200239
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100240Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
241Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
242
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200243undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
244
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100245Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
246Ready to include? Review the code.
247
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100248When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
249(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
250
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100251Patch to delete BeOS code. (#5817)
252
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100253Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
254(Paul Jolly, #5656)
255Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100256 Later more requests for what to track.
257 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
258 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
259 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100260BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100261Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100262
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100263Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
264(Yegappan, #5465)
265
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100266Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
267
268Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
269(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
270
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200271Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
272
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100273:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
274Dec 19)
275
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100276Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
277May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200278Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
279remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200280Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100281Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200282
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100283When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
284the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
285
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100286Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
287Fujiwara, #5469)
288
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200289Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100290Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
291in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200292Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
293(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200294
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100295Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
296ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
297
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100298Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
299
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100300Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
301(#4087)
302
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100303FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
304match, total matches). (#5631)
305Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
306statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
307
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100308Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
309(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
310
311behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
312#5771)
313
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200314":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
315goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
316unlisted. (#4478)
317
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100318Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
319
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100320Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100321
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200322Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
323
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200324Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
325Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
326
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100327Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
328
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100329Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
330
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200331The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
332support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
333
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200334Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
335It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
336Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
337Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
338
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100339"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
340
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100341Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
342
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100343Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
344
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100345Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
346
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200347Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
348(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
349
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200350When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
351default one. #4698
352
353When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
354with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
355
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100356Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100357Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100358
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200359Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200360Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200361
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200362Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
363fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
364
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200365Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
366-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
367
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200368Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
369- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
370- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100371- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200372
373Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
37413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200375
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100376Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
377
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200378Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
379
380Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
381
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100382Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
383
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100384Patch to enable IXON, avoid that CTRL-S stops terminal output. (#5775)
385
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100386When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
387when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
388gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
389input buffer. (#5302)
390
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200391xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
392buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
393Xterm 224 supports it!
394Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
395Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
396Also see issue #609.
397We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
398
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100399:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
400(#5467)
401
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200402Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200403
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100404Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4052007 Feb 18)
406Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
407
408Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
409Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
410
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200411Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
412
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200413Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
414Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200415
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100416Errors found with random data:
417 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100418
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200419Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
420change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
421patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
422(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
423
424Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
425Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
426
427Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
428
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200429Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
430files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
431Include part of #3242?
432
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200433When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
434it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
435
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200436Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
437Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
438Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
439
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100440":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
441window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
442#5443)
443
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200444Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
445(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
446Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
447- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
448 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
449 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
450- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
451 covered by the above change.
452So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
453same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
454Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200455
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200456Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
457t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
458
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100459v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
460(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
461
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100462Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
463Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
464
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200465'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
466
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200467"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
468(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
469
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200470Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
471
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100472Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
473
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200474Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
475
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100476When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
477in a long line. #5189
478
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200479The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
480Give a few examples. (#4288)
481
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200482Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
483work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
484
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200485Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
4867 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
487 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
488 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
489
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100490Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
491read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
492be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
493
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100494Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
495CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
496with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
497fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
498displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
499
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200500Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
501
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200502Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
503
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200504Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
505https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
506
507Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
508http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
509http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
510Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100511- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200512- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
513- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
514 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
515- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
516- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
517Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
518- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
519- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
520Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
521- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
522
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100523Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
524Mar 5)
525
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200526Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
527- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
528 line.
529- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
530 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
531- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
532 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
533
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200534Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
535on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
536
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200537Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
538in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
539buffer didn't change at all.
540
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200541Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
542register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
543(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
544
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200545Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
546(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
547
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200548Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
549":let buf = bufcreate('name')
550
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200551Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
552'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
553(#4450)
554
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100555When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
556But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
557similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
558
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200559C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
560(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
561
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100562Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
563added?
564
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200565Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
566maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
567
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200568Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
569negative. (see #4326)
570
571'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
572`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
573tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
574:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
575
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200576This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
577 vim: syn=nosyntax
578
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200579":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
580a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
581
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100582Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
583#2948. (related to #1512?)
584On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
585balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
58620, #2481)
587Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
588Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
589balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
5902018 Sep 14)
591Another request: #3811.
592
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200593More warnings from static analysis:
594https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200595
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100596Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
597
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200598Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
599
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200600Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
601internals of the dict structure.
602
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100603nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
604
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200605Missing tests for:
606- add_termcap_entry()
607
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200608Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
609change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
610them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
611
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100612Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
613Also run all tests with C locale?
614
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100615"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
616#3927
617
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200618Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200619Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200620
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100621When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
622case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
623For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
624
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200625Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
626(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
627expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200628
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200629Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
630 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
631 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
632
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100633Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100634punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100635
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200636ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
637
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200638Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
639":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
640#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
641Updated 2019 May 25.
642
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200643Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
644drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
645
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200646Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
647is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
648
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100649When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
650scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
651using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
652
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200653Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
654#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
655(Sep 8)
656
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200657Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
658unified diff (list of lines).
659
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100660When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
661kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
662when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
663
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100664Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
665(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100666
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100667Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
668
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100669Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100670Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200671TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100672Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200673Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
674Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200675
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200676gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200677
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200678matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
67919.
680
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100681Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100682Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100683Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
684highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200685And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
686'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100687Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
688Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100689
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100690Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
691Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
692
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200693Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
694Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
695Not ready to include.
696
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200697Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
698Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
699Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
700
701Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
702
703Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
704screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
705
706Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
707 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
708 Not ready to include.
709
710Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
711Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
712
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200713home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
714
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200715When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
716terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
717How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
718
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200719Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
720
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100721Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
722Feedback from someone who uses this?
723
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200724ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
725
726Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
727Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
728values.
729
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100730Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200731- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
732- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
733- omit diff.exe from distribution
734- Can we make this show differences within a line?
735- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200736
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200737Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
738
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100739Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
740What is the practical use for this?
741
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200742When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
743includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
744
745Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200746Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200747
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200748MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
749(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
750
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100751Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
752
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200753Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
754
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200755Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
756window for the buffer.
757
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200758Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
759when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
760
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100761Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
762mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
763
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200764Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
765
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200766Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
767modified buffers
768 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
769 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
770 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
771 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
772
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100773Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
774- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
775- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
776- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100777- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
778
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200779Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
780characters. (#3246)
781
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200782'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
783
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100784Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
785Oct 28)
786
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200787ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
788Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
789Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
790Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
791
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100792Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
793- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
794
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200795Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
796- Test_setbufvar_options()
797- Test_exit_callback_interval()
798
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200799Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
800Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100801Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
802Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200803
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200804Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
805
806Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
80724)
808
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100809Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100810 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100811or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100812 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
813
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100814Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100815mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100816
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200817Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
818is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
819used for git temp files.
820
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100821Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
822
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200823Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
824behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
825(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
826
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200827Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
828pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
829
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200830Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
831script or function.
832
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200833When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
834E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
835does nothing otherwise?
836
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200837MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
838If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
839(wait a little while).
840CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100841
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200842Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
843MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8442017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
845receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
846
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200847Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
848missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
849
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200850":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
851deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
852
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200853Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200854
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100855Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200856Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
857
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200858With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
859included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
860(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
861
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200862Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200863Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200864
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100865Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100866Jan 15, #2555)
867
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200868":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
869
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100870Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
871
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100872No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
873No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
874
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200875Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
876http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
877Should be supported with a flag.
878
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100879Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
880confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
881
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100882Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
883
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100884Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
885Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
886applying the diff, etc.
887
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200888Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
889Apr 26, #2849)
890
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100891User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
892word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100893
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100894Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200895
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200896With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
897(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
898
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200899Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
900:drop (remote commands).
901
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200902Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9032018 Jun 18, #3027)
904
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200905Implement option_save() and option_restore():
906option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
907 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
908 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
909 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
910 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
911 be called when the same window is the current window.
912 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
913 the local options won't be restored.
914
915option_save({list}) *option_save()*
916 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
917 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
918 let s:saved_options = option_save([
919 \ 'ignorecase',
920 \ 'iskeyword',
921 \ ])
922 au <buffer> BufLeave *
923 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
924< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
925 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
926 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
927 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100928 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
929 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
930 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100931 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200932
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100933"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
934directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
935Also see #1689.
936
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100937When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100938highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100939
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200940":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
941
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100942No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9432017 Dec 26, #2501)
944
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200945A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
946
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200947Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
948
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200949A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
950Mention where they were defined somewhere.
951
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100952Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
953(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
954
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200955ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
956
957Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
958
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100959Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
960Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
961
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100962Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
963in #846)
964Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
965
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200966Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
967Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
968
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100969When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
970redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200971
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100972In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
973(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
974
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100975Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
976neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100977
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100978Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
979Nov 21)
980
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200981When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
982triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
983set_color_count().
984
985Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
986responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
987
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100988When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
989CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
990Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
991always nested.
992
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200993matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
994
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100995Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
996
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100997MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100998for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
999
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001000Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001001(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001002
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001003Test runtime files.
1004Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001005
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001006Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001007
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001008Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1009defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1010Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1011
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001012After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
101313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001014
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001015When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1016line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1017
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001018The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1019
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001020Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1021set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
1022
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001023Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1024
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001025Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1026behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1027
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001028'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1029
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001030The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1031
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001032When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1033a command can delete it.
1034
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001035Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1036#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1037
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001038The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1039for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1040
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001041X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1042pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1043clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1044Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1045Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1046clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001047Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001048
1049Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1050
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001051Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1052attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1053that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1054
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001055Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1056(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1057
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001058Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1059buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1060Also fixes #2166?
1061
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001062Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1063stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1064
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001065Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1066possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1067
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001068When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1069case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1070
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001071Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1072existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1073Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1074
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001075Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001076
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001077MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1078Jul 4)
1079
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001080Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1081Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1082This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1083Christian cannot reproduce it.
1084
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001085Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1086wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1087Or is this not an actual problem?
1088
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001089Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1090
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001091Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1092
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001093Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1094
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001095'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1096#1736)
1097
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001098Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10998, #1690)
1100
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001101Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1102(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1103
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001104Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1105it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1106
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001107Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1108Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1109How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1110
1111Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1112(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1113
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001114Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1115
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001116assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1117it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1118
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001119Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1120for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001121
1122Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1123(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1124Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1125later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1126Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1127mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001128Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1129mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001130maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001131
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001132Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001133plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1134be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1135
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001136Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1137 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1138 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001139
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001140json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001141What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001142
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001143Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1144
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001145import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1146(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1147
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001148When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1149buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1150Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001151
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001152Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1153Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001154Another example in #1309
1155
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001156When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1157when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1158
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001159Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1160#1330)
1161
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001162Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1163
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001164Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1165
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001166GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1167g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1168timer expires.
1169
1170Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1171
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001172Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1173highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1174
11758 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1176 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1177
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001178Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1179Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1180
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001181Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1182key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1183 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1184 echo keytrans(xx)
1185 <C-Home>
1186
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001187Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1188(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1189Make a function to check for function-like type?
1190
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001191Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1192(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1193
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001194Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001195 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001196 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001197
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001198Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1199somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1200
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001201Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1202(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1203
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001204Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001205Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001206Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001207
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001208The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1209"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1210Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1211
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001212Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1213
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001214Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1215about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001216Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1217
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001218Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1219#1053) With patch, does it work?
1220
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001221":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001222vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1223
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001224Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001225E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001226Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001227
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001228Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1229Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1230
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001231Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001232Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001233
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001234"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1235(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1236
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001237Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1238(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001239Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001240
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001241'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1242
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001243Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1244
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001245When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1246Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001247Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001248
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001249Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1250anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1251
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001252Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001253E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001254
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001255Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1256(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1257
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001258Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1259
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001260On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1261separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1262
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001263min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1264contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1265
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001266Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1267
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001268Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1269
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001270Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1271
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001272Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1273no longer support.
1274
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001275sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12764#1038)
1277
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001278+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001279- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001280- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1281 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1282 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001283- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1284 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001285- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1286- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1287 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1288- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1289 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1290- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001291- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1292 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001293- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1294- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1295 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1296 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1297- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1298- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1299- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1300 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1301 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1302- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1303 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1304- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1305 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1306 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1307
1308Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001309- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1310 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1311 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1312 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001313- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1314 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001315- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1316 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1317- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1318 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1319- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1320 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1321 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1322 LC_CTYPE
1323- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1324 matches everywhere.
1325- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1326 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1327- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1328- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1329 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1330- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1331- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1332 2013 Dec 11)
1333- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1334 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1335- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1336- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1337 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1338- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1339- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1340- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1341- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1342 2015 Feb 7)
1343- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1344 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1345 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1346 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1347 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1348- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1349- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1350- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1351- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1352 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1353 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1354 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1355- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1356 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1357- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1358 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1359 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1360 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1361
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001362Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1363#1350)
1364
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001365Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13663. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1367Also see #1635.
1368
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001369Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001370Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1371use the current behavior.
1372Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001373
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001374When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1375command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1376
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001377Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1378doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1379Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001380Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001381E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1382
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001383execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001384#1141)
1385
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001386cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1387
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001388:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1389
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001390Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1391
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001392When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1393synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1394
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001395Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1396Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001397
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001398Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1399(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1400
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001401ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1402Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001403
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001404Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1405
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001406Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001407(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001408
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001409Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1410Jul 25, #948)
1411
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001412Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1413names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1414Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1415the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1416
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001417'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1418
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001419MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1420Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001421
1422Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1423Also for ":@.".
1424
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001425Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1426
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001427Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1428#1125
1429
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001430Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1431times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1432
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001433Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1434
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001435Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1436
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001437Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1438
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001439Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1440
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001441We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1442the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1443
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001444Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1445
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001446When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1447emoji_width table has only one entry.
1448
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001449It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1450Reject the value? #710.
1451
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001452When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1453Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1454
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001455Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001456
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001457Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1458No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001459
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001460Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1461(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001462
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001463Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1464
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001465Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1466https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1467Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1468
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001469Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1470but the reference remains valid.
1471
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001472Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001473interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1474Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1475interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1476result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001477
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001478Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001479work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001480
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001481Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1482
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001483Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1484
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001485Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1486Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1487
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001488When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1489Apr 17) #762
1490
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001491exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1492Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1493
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001494Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1495'iskeyword' for syntax.
1496
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001497Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1498(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1499
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001500Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1501
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001502When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1503maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001504Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001505
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001506Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1507It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1508Add configure check?
1509Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1510Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1511Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1512
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001513Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1514Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1515
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001516Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1517Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1518
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001519":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1520directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1521
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001522In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1523(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1524
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001525If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15262016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001527
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001528Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1529(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1530
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001531Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1532
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001533When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1534restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1535Do not trigger the event?
1536
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001537Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1538changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1539and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001540Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1541Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15426, 2nd message)
1543Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001544
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001545Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1546Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1547https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1548
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001549Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1550With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1551
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001552Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001553
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001554Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1555
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001556Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001557Only remembers one error.
1558
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001559GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001560
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001561Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1562(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001563
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001564Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1565github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001566 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001567Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001568
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001569Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001570
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001571Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001572comparing individual items.
1573Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1574Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1575Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1576equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1577
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001578Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1579
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001580MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1581wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1582
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001583Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1584specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1585
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001586Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1587(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1588
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001589Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001590inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001591
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001592Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1593(Luchr, #277)
1594
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001595Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001596'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1597before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001598
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001599C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1600and also line continuation after #include.
1601I can't recommend it though.
1602
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001603Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1604(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1605
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001606To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1607library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1608
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001609When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1610is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1611
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001612Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
161330)
1614
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001615MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1616(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1617
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001618The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
161924): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001620
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001621":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1622effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1623
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001624":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16259)
1626
1627The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1628wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1629
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001630Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001631Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001632
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001633When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1634the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1635
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001636Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001637slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1638inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1639
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001640ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16412014 Sep 11)
1642
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001643Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1644(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1645
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001646When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1647'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1648
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001649Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1650Work in progress.
1651
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001652Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1653when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1654
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001655Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1656Is this right?
1657
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001658Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1659(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1660Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1661
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001662Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1663Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001664
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001665Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1666Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1667
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001668Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1669
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001670When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1671filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1672initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1673
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001674Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1675
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001676Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1677OK to not block marks?
1678
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001679Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1680
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001681Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1682
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001683When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1684(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1685
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001686Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001687
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001688Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1689(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1690
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001691When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1692any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1693
1694Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001695
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001696Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001697
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001698Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1699(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1700
1701Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1702
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001703Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1704Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1705was already defined.
1706(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1707
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001708Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1709
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001710Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001711Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001712Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001713Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001714
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001715Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1716(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1717
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001718Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1719(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1720
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001721Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1722
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001723When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1724these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1725window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1726
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001727Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1728should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1729history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1730Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1731
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001732"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1733Jun 8)
1734
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001735Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1736insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1737
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001738No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1739
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001740Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1741(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1742Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1743arguments.
1744
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001745Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1746
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001747Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001748
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001749Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17500x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1751New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1752compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1753
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001754Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1755a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1756
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001757Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1758right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001759its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001760
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001761Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1762
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001763This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1764 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1765This neither: (ZyX)
1766 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1767
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001768'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1769Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1770from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001771
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001772Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17732014 Jun 8)
1774
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001775Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001776Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001777Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1778Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1779User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001780- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1781 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1782 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001783- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1784- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1785 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1786 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1787 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1788 on vim.org.
1789- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1790 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1791- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1792- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1793- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1794- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1795Implementation:
1796- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1797 plugin separate.
1798- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1799 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1800 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1801- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1802 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1803- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1804 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1805 installing.
1806Out of scope:
1807- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1808- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1809 useful).
1810
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001811Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1812normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001813
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001814When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1815menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1816
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001817Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1818(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1819
1820":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1821various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001822
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001823Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001824(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1825
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001826VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1827instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1828
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001829Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001830Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001831
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001832Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001833command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001834
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001835Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1836
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001837Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1838highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001839
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001840The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1841For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1842
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001843Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001844possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001845
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001846Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001847
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001848Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1849
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018507 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1851 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1852 "lucida_console:h8").
1853Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1854
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001855:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1856
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001857Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1858
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001859Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1860
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001861When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1862(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1863
1864Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001865Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001866
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001867GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1868(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1869
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001870Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1871registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1872
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001873Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1874
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001875The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1876(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1877Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1878
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001879The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1880- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1881- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1882
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001883Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1884Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1885reliably?
1886
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001887Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1888(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1889
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001890Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1891(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1892
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001893Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18942013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001895
1896Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1897
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001898Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18995)
1900
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001901Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1902carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1903
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001904Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1905highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1906
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001907Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001908
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001909Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200191028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001911
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001912Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1913
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001914Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1915
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001916- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1917 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1918Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001919
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001920Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001921
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001922In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1923process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1924a reboot.
1925
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001926patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1927
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001928Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1929not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001930
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001931Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1932Or use expand('<sid>')?
1933
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001934Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1935
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001936Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1937
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001938b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19397)
1940
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001941Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1942compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1943
1944Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1945Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1946vim.bindeval().
1947
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001948Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19492012 Aug 4)
1950
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001951Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1952(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1953
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001954Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1955But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1956
1957Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1958Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1959Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001960
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001961Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1962loading all files.
1963
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001964MS-Windows resizing problems:
1965- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1966 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1967- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1968 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1969 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001970
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001971'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001972
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001973Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001974of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1975
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001976The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1977Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1978But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001979
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001980When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1981is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1982
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001983URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001984- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001985- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1986 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1987
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001988Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1989(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1990Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1991
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001992Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001993New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001994
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001995When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1996for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1997Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001998
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001999Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2000
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002001Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2002
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002003Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2004Apr 18)
2005
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002006Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2007And one for gui_x11.txt.
2008
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002009":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2010finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2011Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2012
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002013Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2014
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002015Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2016
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002017Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2018they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2019
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002020Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2021
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002022Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2023Nov 20)
2024
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002025Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002026Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002027
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002028`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002029(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2030
2031Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2032
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002033BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2034Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2035
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002036Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2037Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2038
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002039Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2040
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002041On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20422012 Jun 19)
2043
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002044'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2045'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2046Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002047Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002048
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002049With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2050(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2051need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2052
2053Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2054only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
205521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2056
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002057Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2058New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2059
2060Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2061Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2062
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002063Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2064Jan 19)
2065
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002066Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2067discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2068meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002069
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002070"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002071Oct 26)
2072
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002073Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2074
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002075With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2076register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002077
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002078Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2079
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002080When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2081(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2082
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002083When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2084then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2085from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2086
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002087Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2088":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
208915)
2090
2091Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2092
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002093BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2094cleared. See test64.
2095
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002096Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002097effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002098Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002099https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002100
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002101On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
210264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2103right type.
2104
2105string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2106(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2107
2108When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2109(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002110When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2111following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2112(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002113
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002114When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2115doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2116
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002117Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2118
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002119maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2120mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2121
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002122Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2123(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2124
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002125When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2126indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2127the help file.
2128
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002129After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2130Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2131
2132Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2133
2134"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2135
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002136Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2137
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002138Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002139
2140Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21412010 Dec 18)
2142
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002143With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2144number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2145Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2146
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002147Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2148Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2149
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021508 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2151Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2152
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002153Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2154one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2155the match scrolls into view.
2156
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021577 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2158Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2159Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2160
21619 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2162 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2163Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2164
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002165Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2166Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2167
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002168In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2169or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2170sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2171
2172GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2173doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2174
2175GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2176
2177Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2178Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2179
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002180Wish for NetBeans commands:
2181 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2182
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002183Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2184
21857.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2186there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2187do?
2188
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002189Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
219022)
2191
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002192New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2193- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002194- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002195 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2196
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002197"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21982011 Feb 27)
2199
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002200Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2201^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2202
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002203When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2204exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22059) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2206
2207g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2208the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2209
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002210Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2211crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2212
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002213Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2214number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2215
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002216Regexp engine performance:
2217- Profiling:
2218 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2219 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2220 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2221 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2222 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2223 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2224- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2225- Performance tests:
2226 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2227 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2228 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2229 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2230 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2231 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2232 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2233 'hlsearch'.
2234 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2235 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2236 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2237 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2238
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002239Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2240Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2241
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002242'beval' option should be global-local.
2243
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002244Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002245
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002246setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002247
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002248With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22492010 Oct 24)
2250
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002251Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2252
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002253When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2254Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2255
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002256":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2257
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002258'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2259
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002260C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2261checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2262Issue 46.
2263
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002264Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2265
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002266Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2267gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2268
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002269":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2270accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2271
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002272Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2273setwinvar().
2274
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002275Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002276
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002277When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2278instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2279
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002280Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2281Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2282Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002283
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002284Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2285back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2286
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002287Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002288Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2289
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002290CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2291the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2292FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2293
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002294Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2295Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2296
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002297Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2298Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2299
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002300Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2301
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002302Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2303non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304
2305iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2306Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2307or replace with a character and continue?
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2310Requires configure check for localtime().
2311Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2312
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002313Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2314Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2315
2316Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002318Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2319Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2320path.
2321
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002322Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002323Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002324
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002325'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2326
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002327":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2328like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2329
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002330Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2331https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002332
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002333Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23342010 Nov 5)
2335
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002336Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002337Jan 7)
2338
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002339Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2340
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002341With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2342entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2343Feb 12)
2344
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002345Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2346characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2347
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002348Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2349
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002350Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2351 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2352
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002353Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2354
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002355When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2356Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2357
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2359not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2360string value.
2361
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002362For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002363line argument -noregister.
2364
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002365When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2366missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2367
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002368When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2369doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002370
2371Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2372(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2373Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2374There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2375Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2376
2377":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2378highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2379to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2380
2381Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2382Probably needs a bit of work.
2383
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002384List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2386
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002387Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002389Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2390
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002391Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2392Sep 1)
2393
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002394Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2395
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002396Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2397on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
24002009 Jul 18)
2401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002402Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2403window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2404Needs more work.
2405
2406Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2409few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2410
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002411'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002412(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2413
2414Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2415J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2416
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002417When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2418for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2419
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002420Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2421
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002422":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2423because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2424ex_docmd.c.
2425
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002426Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002427Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2428
2429string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2430for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2431
2432Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2433
2434'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
243520)
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24382009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2439
2440Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2441
2442Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2443SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002445When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2446indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2447(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2448
2449Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2450are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2451Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2452Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2453that doesn't have a window.
2454
2455When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2456doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2457
2458getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2459displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2460
2461":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002463There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2464was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2465perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2466
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002467Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2470command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2471
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002472Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2473does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2474
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002475opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2476height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002477very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2480(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2481
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002482Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002483(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002485Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2486char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2487
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002488Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2489Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2490
2491This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2492
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002493Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2494messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2495es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24962009 Jan 26)
2497
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002498When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2500Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2501
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002502Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2503a modeline.
2504
2505Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2506Sergey Khorev)
2507
2508Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2509part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2512correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2513
2514Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2515(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2516
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002517shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002518'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2519Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2520unix-like shell?
2521
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002522Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2523register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2524(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2525
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002526Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2527Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2528
2529Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2530make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2531
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002532When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2533still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2534
2535"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2536(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002538Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2539that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2540ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2541Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2542
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002543MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2544doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2545probably causes this.
2546
2547'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025482009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002549
2550Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2551 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2552 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2553(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2554
2555Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2556":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2557option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2558is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002560":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2561first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002562Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002563
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002564Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2565laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2566Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002567
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002568Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2569anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2570
2571On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2572doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2573Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2574Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2575
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002576When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2577'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2578fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2579the buffer to be unmodified.
2580Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2581another look at it.
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2584(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2585
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002586You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2587error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2588Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2589at the other match for 0xBF.
2590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002591When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2592argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002594Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2595backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2596
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002597When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2598line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2599
2600Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2601position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2604(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002605command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002606
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002607":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2608Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2609
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002610When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2611either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2612put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2613
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002614Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2615Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2616Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2617Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2618(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2619
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002620Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2621
2622ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002623
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002624Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2625(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2626escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2627an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002628This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2629July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002630Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2631work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2632
2633When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
263431)
2635
2636Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2637work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2638Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002640Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2641multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2642(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2643
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002644Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26452008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002646Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002647
2648Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2649Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2650'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002652Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2653Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2656Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2657
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026588 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2659 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2660 several).
2661 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2662 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2663 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2664Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2665
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002666The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002667 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002668 0x2217, star
2669 0x2500, bar
2670 0x26ab, circle
2671
2672Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2673line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2674
2675GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2676Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2677
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002678Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2679try the Cocoa version.
2680
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002681Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2682changed or the window is resized.
2683
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002684GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2685the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2686
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002687Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2688Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002689
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002690Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26911) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002693C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2694with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2695Try to reproduce at work.
2696
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002697Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2698Is there a way to list all the files first?
2699
2700When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2701result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
270216)
2703
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002704Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2705(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2706
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002707Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2708Await response to question to make the register writable.
2709
2710Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27111)
2712
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002713In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2714each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2715
2716try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2717
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002718try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002720":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2721Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2722
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002723Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2724
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002725Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2726Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2727
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002728Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2729Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2730Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002731
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002732When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2733and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2736 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2737
2738New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2739
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002740":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2741a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2744Likonen, March 19)
2745
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002746Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2747other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2748
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002749The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2750appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2751matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2752
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002753When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2754character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2755'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2756(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2759Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760
2761More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2762
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002763Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2764http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2765
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002766Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2767back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2768Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002769
2770Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2771No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2772
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002773Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2774terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775
2776Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2777
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002778Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2779but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2780that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002782Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2783Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2784
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002785Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2786popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2787size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2788This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2789
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002790When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2791it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2792
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002793Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2794then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2795files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002796Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2797indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2798":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002799in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2800quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002801Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002802
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002803When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2804parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2805neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2806particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2807Jun 3)
2808However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2809the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002811A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2812Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002814Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2815Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2816
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002817Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2818switch list is noticed:
2819 switch (i)
2820 {
2821 case 1:
2822 foobar:
2823 }
2824
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002825Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2826
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002827Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2828with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2829go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2830moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2831
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002832Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002833GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002834Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2835argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2836(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2837
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002838Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2839(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2840
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002841Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28422007 Feb 8)
2843
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002844Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2845set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002846
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002847Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2848
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002849Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2850Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2851New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2852patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2853
2854Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2855Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002857Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002858label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2859
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002860Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2861with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2862Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002864Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2865
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002866Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2867Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2868only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2869
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002870Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2871Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002872Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002873properly?
2874
2875Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28762007 Jun 21)
2877
2878When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2879Jun 18)
2880
2881If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2882
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002883Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2884windows. (Adam George)
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2887the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2888
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2890
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002891":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2892
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002893When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002894error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002895
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002896GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002897use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2900if_ruby.c.
2901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2903
2904The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2905it in keep_msg?
2906
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002907Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002908error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2910
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002911Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2912longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002913
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002914Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2915Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2916Also for ":w" without a file name.
2917The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002918
2919"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2920Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2921
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002922VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2923directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2924(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2925
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002926VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2929name?
2930
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002931Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2934(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002935Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2937
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002938gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2939This also fails with --remote.
2940
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002941When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29422008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2943all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2944
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002945aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002947When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2948(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2951the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002953GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2954
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002955Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2956superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2957
2958Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2959character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2960
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002961Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2962Jun 5)
2963
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002964Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29652008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2966Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2967
2968In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2969but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2970Jul 22)
2971
2972There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2973
2974Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2975":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2976somehow? Or use a new function.
2977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2979
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002980Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2981moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2982that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2983
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002984The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2985
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002986When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002987cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2988the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002990These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2991 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2992 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2993 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2994
2995Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2996partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2997
2998In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2999buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
3000reload it then?
3001
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
3003
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003004Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
3005only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
3006
3007Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
3008tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
3009doesn't contain other directories.
3010
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01003011Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3012Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3013
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003014Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3015 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3016 set background=dark
3017This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3018color is, not reset it.
3019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003020Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3021start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3022show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3023middle?
3024
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003025Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3026
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003027When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3028current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3029the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3030
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3032Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3033
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003034Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3035Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3036
3037Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3038
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003039A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3040Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3041
3042Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3043Dara, 2006 June 21)
3044
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003045Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3046number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3047
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003048After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3049the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3050
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003051Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003052
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003053Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3054Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3055
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003056Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030572008 Sep 29)
3058
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3060check the result of has("patch13").
3061
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003062Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3063restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3064
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003065Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3066and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3067
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003068Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3069put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003071Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3072resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3073
3074In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3075can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3076
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003077GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3078maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3079doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003080Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3081visible.
3082
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003083When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3084differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003085
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003086The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3087be only one.
3088
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003089Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003090"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3091name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3092Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003093
3094Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3095(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3096
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003097Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3098as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3099
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003100Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
310123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003102
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003103":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3104tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3105Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003106
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003107When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3108text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3109latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3110
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003111Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3112no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3113
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003114In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3115VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31162007 Oct 16)
3117
3118TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3119Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3120
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003121Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003123When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3124typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3125Sep 3, 11)
3126
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003127":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3128this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3129
3130When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3131Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3132restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3133
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003134Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31352010 Jun 30)
3136
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003137Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3138'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3139(Kartik Agaram)
3140
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003141
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003142Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003143- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3144 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3145- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3146 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3147 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3148- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3149 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3150 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003151- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3152- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003153
3154
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003155More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003156- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3157 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003158- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003159- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3160 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003161- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3162- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3163- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3164 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3165 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003166- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003167- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3168 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3169- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3170 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3171- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3172 21)
3173- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3174 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3175- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3176 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003177- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3178 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003179- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3180 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3181 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3182 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3183 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003184- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003185
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003186Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031879 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3188 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3189 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3190 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3191 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3192 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3193 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3194 (Alan Schmitt)
3195 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003196 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3197 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031989 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003199 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032008 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032017 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3202 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3203 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032048 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003205 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020032067 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003207 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3208- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3209 for multi-byte characters.
3210- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3211- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3212 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3213 been given values.
3214 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032157 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3216 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3217- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3218 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3219 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32208 Add functions:
3221 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3222 Update 2004 Sep 10
3223 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3224 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003225 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003226 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3227 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3228 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3229 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3230 (2003 May 13)
3231 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3232 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003233 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3234 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003235 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3236 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3237 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032387 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3239 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032407 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3241 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032428 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3243 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032447 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32458 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3246 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32477 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3248 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032497 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3250- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3251 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3252 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003253- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3254 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3255- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3256
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003257Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3258- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3259 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3260
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003261Quickfix/Location List:
3262- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3263 #2999)
3264- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3265 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3266 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3267 the quickfix buffer?
3268- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3269 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3270- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3271 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3272- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3273 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3274 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3275- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3276 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3277- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3278- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3279 2007 Jan 1)
3280- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3281 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3282- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3283 errors. How do we get the rest?
32848 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3285 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3286 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3287 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32887 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3289 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003290
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003291Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003292- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3293 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032948 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3295 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3296 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3297 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3298 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3299 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033008 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3301 make Vim exit.
33027 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3303 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3304 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33058 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3306 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3307 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33086 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3309 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3310 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33118 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3312 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3313 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3314 names in one buffer???
3315 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3316 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3317 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33187 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3319 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3320 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003321 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3322 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033237 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3324 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33257 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
33267 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033277 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3328 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3329 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3330 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33317 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33327 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33337 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3334 to the match with the tag? Option?
33357 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33367 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3337 (Sayre).
33387 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3339 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033407 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3341 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3342 match. Nvi can do it too.
33437 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3344 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3345 line 1\ line 2\\
3346 line 2\ line 3\\
3347 . line4/
33486 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3349 the way the shell is started?
33506 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3351 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3352
3353
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003354GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033559 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033568 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3357 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3358 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033598 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3360 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3361 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033629 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3363 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3364 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3365 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003366- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3367 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3368 blocked for now.
3369
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003370
3371Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003372- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3373 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033748 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3375 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3376 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033776 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3378 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033798 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3380 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3381 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033827 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3383 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3384 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033857 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3386 2004 May 9)
33878 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3388 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3389 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3390 MS-Windows 98?
3391 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3392 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3393 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3394 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033958 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3396 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3397 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3398 doesn't work properly.
33998 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3400 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3401 appears in the right position. (Webb)
34029 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3403 button doesn't give popup menu.
3404 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3405 selection.
3406 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3407 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3408 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34098 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3410 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3411 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3412 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34138 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3414 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3415 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034167 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3417 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003418 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034197 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3420 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034216 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34228 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3423 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3424 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34258 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3426 know which keyboard is being used?
34277 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3428 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3429 area (Koloseike).
34308 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3431 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3432 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3433 the font name).
3434
3435
3436Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034376 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3438 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3439 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3440 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3441 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034429 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3443 required and it's missing?
34448 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3445 wrong.
34469 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3447 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034489 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003449 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3450 flag.
34518 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3452 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3453 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34548 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34556 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3456 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3457 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3458 the tooltips work though...
34597 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3460 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34618 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3462 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3463 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3464
3465
3466Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034679 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3468 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034699 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3470 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3471 through files.
34727 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3473 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34744 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3475 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3476 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3477 problem during a refresh.
34785 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3479 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3480 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3481 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3482 colors as it should.
3483 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3484 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3485
3486
3487Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003488- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034897 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3490 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3492 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3493 (Phillipps)
3494
3495
3496GUI:
34979 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3498 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34999 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003500 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003501 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
35029 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3503 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
35048 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3505 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
35068 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3507 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3508 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35098 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3510 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3511 of where it is processing the output.
3512 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35138 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3514 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035158 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035168 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3517 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3518 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035198 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035208 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3521 browse().
35228 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3523 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35248 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3525 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035267 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3527 - regexp on/off
3528 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3529 when all buffers/directory is used:
3530 - filter for file name
3531 when directory is used:
3532 - subdirectory on/off
3533 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3535 to avoid problems.
35368 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3537 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3538 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35398 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3540 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3541 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35428 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3543 up. Set erase character somehow?
35448 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3545 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3546 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3547 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35488 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35497 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3550 visible.
35517 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3552 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35537 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3554 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35558 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3556 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35578 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3558 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3559 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3560 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3561- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35624 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3563 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3564 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3565
3566
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003567Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035688 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3569 a good fallback, thus use:
3570 $HOME
3571 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3572 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3573 $USERPROFILE
3574 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3575 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3576 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3577 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035788 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3579 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35808 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3581 Should work like in the GUI version.
35828 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3583 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35848 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3585 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35868 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3587 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3588 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035898 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3590 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3591 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3592
3593
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003594Win32 console:
35959 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3596 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3597 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3598 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3599 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3600 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3601 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3602 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3603 and the file is not saved.
3604 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3605 long name.
36068 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3607 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36087 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3609 besides the console.
36108 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36119 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3612 <C-S-i>?
36139 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3614 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36158 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3616 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617
3618
3619Amiga:
36208 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3621 sequences.
36229 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3623 backslashes in result.
36248 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3625 all options, using white space separation.
3626
3627
3628Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003629- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036307 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3631 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3632 (Jack)
3633 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036348 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3635 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036368 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36378 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36389 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3639 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036409 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641
3642
3643"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003644- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3645 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003646- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3647 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003648- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3649 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3650 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3651 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3652 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3653 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3654 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036559 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3656 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036579 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003658 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3659 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036608 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3661 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3662 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003663 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036647 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3665 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36668 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3667 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3668 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036697 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3670 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003671- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3672 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036738 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3674 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3675 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3676 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36777 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3678 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3679 invocations belong together.
36808 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3681 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36828 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3683 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3684 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003685 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036868 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3687 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3688 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036898 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3690 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036917 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3692 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3693 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3694 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036957 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3696 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3697 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36987 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3699 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3700 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
37017 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3702 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037037 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3704 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037059 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3706 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3707 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3708 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3709 script can be called.
37108 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3711 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3712 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037138 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3714 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037158 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003716 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3717 configurable?
37188 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037198 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3720 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037218 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3722 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037238 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3724 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037259 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3726 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3727 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037287 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037298 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3730 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3731 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037328 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3733 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003734 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3735 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037368 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3737 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37389 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3739 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3740 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003741 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037427 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3743 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037447 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3745 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3746 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3747 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037488 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003749 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3750 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3751 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3752 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003753 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3754 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003755 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003756 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003757 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3758 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3759 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3760 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3761 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037628 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3763 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37648 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3765 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37668 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3767 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3768 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37698 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3770 'linebreak'.
37718 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3772 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3773 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037749 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3775 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3776 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3777 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37789 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3779 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037809 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37819 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3782 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3783 cause another redraw, etc.
37848 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3785 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37868 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3787 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3788 ":w!!" for that.
3789 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3790 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003791 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037927 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3793 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3794 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3795 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3796 clipboard)
37977 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3798 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3799 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000038006 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3801 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3802 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038038 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3804 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38058 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3806 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3807 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38088 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3809 (e.g., ":w").
38108 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3811 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038128 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3813 script in do_cmdline().
38148 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3815 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3816 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3817 changes.
38188 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3819 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38208 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3821 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038228 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3823 to skip catch_signals()?
38249 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3825 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3826 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3827 text?
38288 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3829 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38308 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3831 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38329 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3833 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3834 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3835 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3836 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38377 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3838 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3839 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3840 in the list?
38418 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3842 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3843 instead of on button down.
38448 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38459 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3846 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003847 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3848 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038498 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3850 character is typed.
38518 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3852 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38538 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3854 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38558 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3856 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3857 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3858 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3859 cygwin bash.
38607 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3861 Remember flags for backreferences.
38627 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3863 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38647 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3865 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38668 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3867 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38687 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3869 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038707 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3871 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3872 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38737 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3874 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38758 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3876 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3877 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38787 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3879 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003880
3881
3882I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38839 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3884 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3885 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003886
3887
3888Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003889- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3890 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3891 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003892- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3893 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3894 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3895 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3896 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3897 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003898 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003899- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3900 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003901 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003902 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3903 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3904 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003905- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3906 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3907 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3908 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3909 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3910- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3911 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3912 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3913- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3914 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003915- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003916- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3917 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3918 character gets the highlighting.
3919- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3920 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3921- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3922 (Jennings)
3923- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003924- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003925- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003926 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003927- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3928 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3929 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3930- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3931 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3932 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3933 (Benzinger).
3934- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3935 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3936 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3937- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3938 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3939- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3940 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3941- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3942 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3943 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3944 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3945 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3946 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3947- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3948 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3949 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003950- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3951 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3952 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003953- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3954 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3955 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3956- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3957 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3958- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3959 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003960- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3961 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3962- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3963 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3964 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3965 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3966 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3967- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3968 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3969 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3970- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3971 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3972 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003973- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3974 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 +00003975- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3976 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3977 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3978 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3979 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3980- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3981 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3982
3983--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3984 *extensions-improvements*
3985
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003986Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3987- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3988 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3989 calling a function.
3990 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3991 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003992- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3993 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003994 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003995- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3996 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3997 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3998 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3999 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
4000 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004001 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004002- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
4003 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
4004 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004005- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
4006 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040078 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
4008 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
4009 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
4010 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004011- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4012 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004013
4014
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004015Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040168 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4017 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040188 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4019 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040208 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4021 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040228 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040239 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4024 - change to cursor position and curswant
4025 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4026 - how it works for folded lines
4027 - how it works with multi-byte characters
40289 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4029 work too.
40308 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4031 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4032 text.
40338 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40347 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4035 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40367 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4037 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004038 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4040
4041
4042Help:
4043- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4044 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4045- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4046 to the other matches.
4047- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004048- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4049 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4050 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4051 default contents.
4052- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4053 height for the help window (and other windows).
4054- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4055- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4056- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4057
4058
4059User Friendlier:
40608 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4061 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4062 Briscoe)
40638 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40648 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4065 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4066 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40678 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4068 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4069- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4070 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004071- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40729 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4073 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4074 item?).
4075 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040768 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040777 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4078 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4079 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040808 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4081 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4082 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4083 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004084
4085
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004086Tab pages:
40879 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040887 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4089 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040908 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040918 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040927 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040937 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004094 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040958 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4096 tab pages.
40977 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4098
4099
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004100Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004101- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004102 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004103- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4104 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4105 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4106- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4107 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004108- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4109 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4110 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004111- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4112 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4113 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004114- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4115 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004116- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004117 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4118 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041198 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4120 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
41218 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4122 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
41238 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4124 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004125 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004126 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4127 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4128 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4129 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004130- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4131 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004132- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004133- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4134 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004135- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004136 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004137- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004138 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004139- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4140 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004141- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4142 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4143- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004144 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004145 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4146 in the affix file separately.
4147 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004148 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004149 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4150 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4151 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4152- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4153 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4154 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4155 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4156 Alternative:
4157 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4158 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4159 affix which is required.
4160- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004161 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004162- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4163 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4164 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004165- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4166 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004167- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4168 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4169- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041708 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4171 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4172 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4173 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004174- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4175 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4176 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4177 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041788 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4179 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041808 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41818 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4182 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041837 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41848 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4185 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4186 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4187 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004188
4189
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004190Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041919 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4192 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041938 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004194 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195
4196Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004197 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4198 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041998 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4200 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020042018 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4202 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042038 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4204 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4205 user aware of this?
42068 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4207 commands skip over a closed fold.
42088 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
42098 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042107 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004211- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4212 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4213 missing line goes unnoticed.
4214 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4216 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4217 smoother?
4218- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4219 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004220- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4221 file can contain:
4222 args version.c main.c
4223 edit version.c
4224 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004225- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004226- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4227 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004228- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4229 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004230- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4231 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004232- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004233
4234Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004235- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4236 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4237 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4238 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042399 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4240 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4241 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4242 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042439 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4244 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4245 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042468 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4247 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4248 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4249 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4250 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4251 item.
42528 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004253 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4254 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042558 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4256 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042578 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4258 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4259 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042607 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4261 so that the user can fix the problem.
42628 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4263 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042649 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42658 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042668 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42678 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042687 Searching and composing characters:
4269 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004270 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4271 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042728 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42738 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42748 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4275 characters.
42768 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42778 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4278 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42797 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4280 'display' option to specify this.
42817 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4282 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4283- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4284 fontselector somehow.
4285- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4286 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4287- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4288 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4289- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4290 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4291 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4292 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4293 if a font exists?
4294- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004295 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004296- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4297 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004298- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4299 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4300 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4301 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004302- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4303 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004304 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004305- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4306 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4307 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4308 But it's very complicated...
4309
4310
4311Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043127 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004313- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4314- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4315 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004316- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4317 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004318- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4319- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4320 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004321- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4322 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004323- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4324 units as for the margins.
4325- Support right-to-left text?
43268 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4327 color.
4328
4329
4330Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043318 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4332 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43338 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4334 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43358 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4336 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043377 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4338 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4340 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4341 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043427 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4343 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4344 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43469 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4347 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043487 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4349 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043507 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4351 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4353 change this for each release.
43548 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4355 pattern, but not in the body.
43568 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4357 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4358 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043598 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043608 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004361 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4362 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043638 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4364 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43658 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4366 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004367 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043688 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4369 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4370 used.
43718 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4372 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43738 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4374 re-insert the [] if possible.
43758 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4376 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043778 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4378 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4379 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4380 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4381 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043828 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4383 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43848 Support for deleting syntax items:
4385 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4386 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4387 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43888 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4389 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4390 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43917 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4392 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4393 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43947 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4395 detected.
43968 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004397 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043988 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4399 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
44018 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
44027 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4403 ":mkvimrc".
44048 Improve c.vim:
4405 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4406 "c_strict_ansi".
4407 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
44088 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4409 current line while in Insert mode.
44108 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4411 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
44128 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4413 display position.
44148 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4415 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4416 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44178 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4418 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4419 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044207 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4421 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4422 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4423 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4424 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044257 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4426 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4427 E.g. for this html:
4428 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044297 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44307 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4431 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044328 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44338 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044347 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4435 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4436 completion?
44378 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4438 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44397 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4440 select one of the sets.
44418 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4442 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4443 2, etc.
44448 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4445 highlighting (for "." command).
44468 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4447 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44488 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44497 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4450 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44516 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4452 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4453- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4454 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4455- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004456- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4457 (for comment blocks).
4458- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4459 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4460 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4461 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4462 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4463 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4464 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4465 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4466 (Campbell)
4467 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4468 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44697 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4470 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44717 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4472 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4473 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44747 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4475 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4476 messages. And external commands?
44778 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4478 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44797 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4480 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4481
4482
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004483Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044848 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4485 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004486 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044877 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4488 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4489 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044908 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4491 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004492- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044938 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4494 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4495 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4496 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4497 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4498 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044997 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4500 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045018 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010045028 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4503 can be the plugin name.
4504 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4505 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045067 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4507 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4508 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4509 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4510 autocommand.
4511 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4512 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4513 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4514 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045157 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4516 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045176 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4518 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045198 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004520 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4521 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004522 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4523 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4524 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004525 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4526 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4527 3 2002
4528 Only add this when also implemented for
4529 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4530 be used.
4531 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004532 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4533 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4534 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4535 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4536 File.Open..." argument.
4537 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4538 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4539 with properties instead.
4540 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4541 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4542 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004543 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004544 crypt() encrypt string
4545 decrypt() decrypt string
4546 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4547 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004548 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004549 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004551 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004552 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004553 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4554 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004555 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4556 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004557 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004558 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4559 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4560 to allow the library to execute a command or
4561 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045627 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4563 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45648 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4565 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045668 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4567 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045688 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045696 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045708 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4571 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045728 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4573 option or environment variable.
45748 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045758 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004576 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045777 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4578 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045798 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4580 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45818 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45828 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4583 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4584 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4585 charwise({expr}).
45867 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4587 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4588 buffer for this?
4589 result = scratch(string, command)
4590 result = apply(string, command)
4591 result = execute(string, command)
4592 "command" would use <> notation.
4593 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45947 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004595
4596
4597Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045986 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4599 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4600 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4601 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4602 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4603 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4604 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004605
4606
4607Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046087 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4609 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020046107 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4611 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4612 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4613 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046148 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4615 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4616 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4617 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004618 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046198 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46209 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
46218 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
46227 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4623 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
46248 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4625 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4626 when starting up in a color terminal.
46278 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4628 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046298 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4630 function be improved?
46318 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4632 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4633 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4634 this be improved?
46358 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4636 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046377 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4638 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046397 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4640 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46417 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4642 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046437 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4644 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4645 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4646 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4647 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4648 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4649 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046508 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4651 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4652 using strcmp() too often?
46537 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4654 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4655 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4656 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4657 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4658 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46597 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4660 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4661 with an argument that can be messed with.
4662 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4663 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46647 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4665- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46668 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4667 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4668- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4669 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4670- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4671- Do profiling on:
4672 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004673 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4674 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4675 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4676 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4677 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4678 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004679 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046807 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4681 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4682 changed).
4683 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4684 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4685- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4686- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4687 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4688- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4689 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4690 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004691- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4692- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4693 cursor is right of the screen.
46948 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4695 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4696
4697
4698Code size:
46998 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4700- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4701 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
47028 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
47038 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4704 it.
47057 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4706 left out.
47078 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4708 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010047098 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004710
4711
4712Messages:
47138 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4714 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47158 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4716 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47178 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4718 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004719- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4720 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4721- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047228 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4723 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047249 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4725 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4726 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4727 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4728 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047298 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4730 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47318 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4732 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4733 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4734 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4735 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4736 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004737- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004738 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047398 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4740 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4741 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4742 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4743 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4744 error messages, printing text, etc.
47458 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4746 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4747 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4748
4749
4750Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751- screen_line():
4752 - insert/delete character stuff.
4753 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4754- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4755 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4756- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4757 waiting for a character.
47588 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4759 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4760 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004761
4762Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047638 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047646 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4765- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4766 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4767 windows.
47687 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4769 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4770 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4771- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4772 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4773 (Goldfarb)
4774- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4775 bound windows.
4776- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4777 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004778- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004779- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4780 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4781 of lines but not with a single line).
4782
4783
4784Autoconf:
47858 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47868 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4787 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4788- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4789 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4790- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4791- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4792- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4793
4794
4795Perl interface:
47968 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047977 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47987 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47996 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4800
4801
4802Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020048038 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4804 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048056 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4806 :libload internal-name libname
4807 :libunload internal-name
4808 :liblist
4809 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4810 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4811 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
48126 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4813
4814
4815Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000048169 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4817 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4818 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4819 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4820 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048218 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4822 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4823 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004824 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004825 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048267 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4827 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4828 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048298 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48308 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4831 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048327 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4833 window for each tag.
48347 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48357 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4836 bottom" search message.
48377 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4838 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4839 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004840- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4841- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004842- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4843 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4844 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048457 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4846 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4847 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4848 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48497 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4850 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4851 :tagargs clear
4852 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4853 matching).
48547 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4855 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4856 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4857 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48587 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4859 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48607 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4861 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4862 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004863
4864
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004865Win32 GUI:
48668 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4867 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048687 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4869 (Mike McCollister)
48708 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4871 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4872 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4873 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4874 common part of the path.
48758 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48768 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4877 gettext and menus work.
48788 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4879 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004880 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004881 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48828 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4883 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48848 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4885 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48867 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4887 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48887 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48897 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48907 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4891 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4892 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4893 prompts.
48947 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4895 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4896 the file added into an already running Vim.
48977 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4898 functions to find the window title.
4899
4900
4901GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020049028 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004903- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4904 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
49057 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
49068 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
49076 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
49088 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4909 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
49109 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
49117 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
49128 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4913 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
49148 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4915 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4916 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
49178 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4918 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
49198 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4920 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4921 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4922 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049237 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
49248 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4925 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049267 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4927 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4928 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049298 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49308 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004931 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049328 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49338 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49348 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4935 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4936 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49377 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4938 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4939 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49407 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4941 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49427 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4943 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4944 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4945 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049467 Should support multi-column menus.
4947- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4948 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4949- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49508 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49516 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4952 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49537 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49547 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4955 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4956 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49577 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49588 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4959 name can be chosen free.
49607 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4961 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49626 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4963 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4964 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4965 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4966 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4967 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4968 things.
49697 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4970 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049717 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004972 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004973- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4974 where it was started from?
49757 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4976
4977
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004978Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049799 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4980 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004981- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049828 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4983 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4984 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4985 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49868 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4987 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049887 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4989 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4990 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4991 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049927 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049938 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4994 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049958 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4996 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4997 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049987 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4999 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
5000 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050018 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
5002 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
5003 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050048 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
5005 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050068 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050076 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
5008 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050097 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050107 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02005011 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
5012 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
5013 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050145 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
5015 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
5016 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
50177 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
5018 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
5019 file.
50208 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5021 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5022 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005023- Add events to autocommands:
5024 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005025 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005026 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5027 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005028 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005029 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005030 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5031 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5032 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5033 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005034 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5036 the char.
5037 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5038 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5039 file from CVS).
5040 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5041 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5042 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5043 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5044 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5045 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005046 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5047 changes.
5048 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5049 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005050- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005051 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005052 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005053 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5054 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5055 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5056 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5057 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5058
5059
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005060Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005061- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5062 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005063- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5064 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5065 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5066 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5067 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005068- Ideas from others:
5069 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5070 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5071 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5072 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5073 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5074 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5075 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5076 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5077 Uses Perl for C++.
5078 Uses ctags to find the info:
5079 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5080 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5081 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5082 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5083 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5084 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005085 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005086 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5087- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5088
5089
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005090Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005091- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050927 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5093 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050947 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5095 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5096 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050978 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5098 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50999 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5100 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5101 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051028 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5103 - ignore/match case
5104 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051058 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5106 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5107 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5108 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5109 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5110 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051118 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000051127 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5113 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051148 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5115 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5116 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5117 Should work for C++ and Java.
5118 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
51197 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51207 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5121 instead of words.
51228 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
51238 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5124 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
51258 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5126 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005127- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5128 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005129- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5130 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5131 wildcards in the file name)?
5132- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5133- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5134- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5135 be in another file).
5136- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5137- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5138- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5139 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5140- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5141- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5142- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005143- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5144
5145
5146Command line editing:
51477 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5148 line.
51498 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5150 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5151 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5152- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5153 lines wraps to start of line).
5154- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5155 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5156 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5157 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5158 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5159 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5160 cmdwin does now already.
5161 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5162 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5163 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5164 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5165 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5166 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5167 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5168 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5169 Problems:
5170 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5171 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5172 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5173 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5174 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5175 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5176 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5177 character in first column?
5178 - Implementation ideas:
5179 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5180 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5181 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5182 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5183 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5184 Mode.
5185
5186
5187Command line completion:
51888 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51898 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5190 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51918 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5192 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051938 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5194 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051957 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5196 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005197- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5198- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5199 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052008 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5201 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
52027 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5203 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5204- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5205 identifiers (Webb).
52068 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5207 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
52087 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5209 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5210- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5211 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5212- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5213 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5214 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005215
5216
5217Command line history:
5218- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5219 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5220 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005221 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005222- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5223 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5224
5225
5226Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052279 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5228 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5229 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052308 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5231 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5232 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5233 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5234 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052358 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5236 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5237 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052387 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5239 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005240- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052417 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5242 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5243- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5244 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5245 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5246 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5247 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5248 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5249- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5250 Normal mode.
5251- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5252 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5253 are used.
5254- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5255- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5256- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5257
5258
5259'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052609 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5261 char * veryLongName =
5262 "very long string"
5263 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052648 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052658 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5266 long_type foo =
5267 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052688 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5269 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005270 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052718 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5272 func(
5273 new String[] {
5274 "asdf",
5275 "asdf"
5276 }
5277 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052788 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5279 (Chow Loong Jin)
5280 namespace {
5281 int
5282 func(int arg) {
5283 }
5284 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052856 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5286 func( arg1
5287 , arg2
5288 , arg3
5289 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052907 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005291 func(
5292 int x) // indent like "(4"
5293 {
5294 if (a
5295 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052969 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5297 if (a)
5298 {
5299 if (b)
5300 {
5301 // {
5302 }
5303 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005304 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5305 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5306 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005307- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005308 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
53097 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5310- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5311 line).
5312- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5313- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5314 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005315- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5316 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5317- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5318 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5319- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5320- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5321 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
53228 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5323 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5324 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5325- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5326- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5327 lines start with "\item".
5328- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5329 /* here is a comment that
5330 is just autoindented, and
5331 nothing else */
5332- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53337 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5334 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5335 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005336 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005337
5338
5339Java:
53408 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5341 Odendahl?
53428 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5343 "[i" commands and friends.
5344- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5345 (Jason)
5346- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5347 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5348
5349
5350'comments':
53518 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5352 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5353 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5354 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005355 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5356 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053577 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5358 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53597 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53606 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5361 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5362 regexp is used.
53638 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5364 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5365
5366
5367Virtual edit:
53688 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053697 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5370
5371
5372Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053738 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053748 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053758 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005376 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053778 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5378 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005379 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5380 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053818 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053828 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5383 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053848 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5385 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5386 the end of the line or before a ".".
53877 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5388 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53897 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5390 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053916 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53925 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5393 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5394 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5395 cursor is on.
5396
5397
5398Select mode:
53998 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5400 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
54017 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005402 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054037 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5404 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5405 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5406 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5407 normal_cmd().
5408 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5409 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5410
5411
5412Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020054138 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5414 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005415- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5416 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5417 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005418- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5419 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5420 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054218 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005422 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005423 where needed.
54247 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5425 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
54267 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5427 of each selected line.
54288 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54298 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5430 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5431 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54328 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5433 Ben Godfrey)
54347 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5435 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54367 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5437 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054387 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005439 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005440 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54418 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5442 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54437 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5444 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5445 option!
54467 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5447 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5448 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5449 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5450 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5451 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5452 without changing the column.
54536 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054547 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5455 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054566 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5457 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54586 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054596 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005460 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005461 or other special character.
54626 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5463
5464
5465More advanced repeating commands:
5466- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005467- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005468- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5470 "y." will repeat last yank.
5471 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5472 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5473 and/or pick an older command.
5474- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5475
5476
5477Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054788 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5479 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5480 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54818 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54827 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5483 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054848 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5485 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54868 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054877 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054888 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5489 entering search strings.
54908 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5491 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5492 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054938 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5494 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054957 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054967 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5497 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054986 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5499 abbreviations are to be used.
5500- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5501 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5502 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005503- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5504 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5505 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5506 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5507 Or implicit:
5508 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005509- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5510 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5511 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005512- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5513 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5514- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5515 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
55166 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5517 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5518 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5519 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5521 non-replace Insert mode?
5522- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005523- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5524- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5525 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5526- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005527 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005528- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5529 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5530- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5531- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5532 ":freekeys".
5533- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5534
5535
5536Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005537- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5538 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5539- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5540 folds when going to another line.
5541 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5542- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5543 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5545 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5546 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005547- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5548 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5549 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5550 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055519 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5552 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005553
5554
5555Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055569 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055578 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005558 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005559 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005560 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005561 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055629 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5563 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055648 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5565 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055668 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5567 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5568 Perl does it this way:
5569 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5570 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5571 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5572 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055738 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5574 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5575 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055767 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5577 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055788 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5579 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055807 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5582 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5583 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055847 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005585 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055867 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5587 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055888 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5589 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55908 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5591 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055927 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593 example.
55948 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5595 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5596- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5597 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5598 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5599 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056008 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5601 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5602 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
56037 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5604 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000056057 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5606 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056078 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5608 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056098 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5610 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056118 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5612 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5613 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5614 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005615- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5616 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005617- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5618 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5619- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5620 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5621 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5622 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056238 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5624 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005625- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5626 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056278 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5628 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5629 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5631 i ignore case
5632 I use case
5633 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5634 v use Vi regexp syntax
5635 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5636 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5637 Perl uses these too:
5638 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5639 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5640 o compile only once (Perl only)
5641 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5642 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5643 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5644 following command.
5645 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5646- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5647 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5648 for search string)?
56497 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5650 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5651- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5652 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5653- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5654 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5655- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5656- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005657 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005658 a for the next file in the argument list
5659 f for file in the buffer list
5660 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005661 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5662 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005663 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5664 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5665- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056667 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005667 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056687 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5669 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5670 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5671 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56726 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5673 effects.
56747 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5675 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5676 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056777 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005678 Also ":dselect".
5679
5680
5681Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056829 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5683 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5684 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056859 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5686 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056878 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5688 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056898 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5690 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5691 timestamp?
5692 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5693 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005694- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5695 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005696- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5697 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5698 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56998 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5700 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5701 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5702 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
57038 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5704 only remember the lines that really changed.
57057 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5706 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5707 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5708 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005709- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5710 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5711- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5712 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5713- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5714 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5715 [-99].
5716- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5717- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005718- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5719 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5720
5721
5722Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057237 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5724 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5725 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5726 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
57278 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5728 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57298 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5730 inode too.
57317 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005732 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5733 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057347 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5735 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5736- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5737 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5738- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5739 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57407 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5741 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57427 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5743 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57448 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057457 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5746 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057478 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5748 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5749 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005750
5751
5752Swap (.swp) files:
57538 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5754 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5755 there are short file name problems.
57568 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5757 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57588 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57598 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005760 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005761 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5762 file the same as the actual file?
5763 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057647 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5765 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57667 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005767 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005768 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5769 enough room.
57707 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5771 or /var/preserve.
5772- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5773 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5774- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005775 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005776- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5777 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5778 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5779 cached list of which line is where.
5780
5781
5782Viminfo:
57837 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5784 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5785 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057868 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5787 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5788 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057898 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5790 name. (Schild)
57918 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57928 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057938 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057948 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5795 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5796 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5797 this?
57987 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57997 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5800 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
58016 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5802 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5803 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5804- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5805 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5806
5807
5808Modelines:
58098 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5810 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5811 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005812- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5813 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5814 'shiftwidth'.
5815- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5816 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005817- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5818 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5819 modeline setting.
5820- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5821 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5822- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5823 .cpp files.
5824- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5825 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5826- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5827 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5828
5829
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005830Sessions:
58318 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5832 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58337 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5834 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058358 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5836 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058378 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5838 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5839 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058407 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5841 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058427 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005843
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005844
5845Options:
58467 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5847 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058488 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5849 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5850 also be supported.
58518 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5852 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5853 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58547 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005855
5856
5857External commands:
58588 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5859 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58604 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5861 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5862 -f).
58634 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58644 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5865 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58664 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5867
5868
5869Multiple Windows:
58707 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58718 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5872 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58737 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5874 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5875 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058767 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5877 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058787 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5879 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058806 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5881 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005882 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005883 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58847 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5885 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5886 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5887 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5888- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5889 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5890 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5891 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5892
5893
5894Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058958 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058968 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5897 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058988 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 +000058998 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5900 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
59018 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5902 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5903 the mark was set.
59047 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5905 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5906 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5907 ":browse marks"?
59086 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059097 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5910 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
59117 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5912 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
59137 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5914 command).
59157 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5916 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5917 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5918 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
59195 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5920 mappings.
59216 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5922 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5923 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5924
5925
5926Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059277 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005928 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005929- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5930 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059318 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059327 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5933 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5934
5935
5936Writing files:
5937- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5938 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5939 shortname conversion.
59408 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59418 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5942 file.
59438 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5944 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5945 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059466 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5947 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59486 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5949 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59506 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5951 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059528 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005953 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59547 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5955 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59567 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5957 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5958 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5959 waiting for a character to be typed).
59608 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5961 line of the window, like "[time]".
5962 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5963 Automatic and/or with a command.
5964
5965
5966Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059678 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5968 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059698 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5971- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5972- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59738 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5974 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005975- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005976 :s///N substitutes N times.
5977- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5978 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5979 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59807 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5981 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5982 last line column 5.
59835 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5984 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5985 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5986 (Stanislav Sitar)
5987
5988
5989Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059908 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59917 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59928 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5993 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5994 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005995- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5996- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5997 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5998- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5999- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
6000
6001
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006002Argument list:
60036 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
6004 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
6005 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
60066 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
6007
6008
6009Registers:
60108 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060118 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
6012 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
6013 for every line.
60146 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
6015 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
6016 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
6017- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
6018 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
6019- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
6020 leader when line wraps?
6021- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
6022 line in the range.
6023- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6024 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
60258 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6026 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006027
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006028
6029Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060308 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060318 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060327 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60337 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006035Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060367 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6037 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6038 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6039 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6040 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6041 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6042 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006043 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060447 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6045 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060467 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6047 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060488 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6049 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060507 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6051 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6052 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006053- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006054 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060557 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6056 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60578 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060587 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6059 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60608 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6061 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060626 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060638 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6064 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6065 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6066 in this Vim.
60678 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006068 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060698 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6070 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6071 have it apply to the following command.
60728 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6073 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6074 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6075 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060767 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6077 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060787 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6079 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6080 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6081 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060826 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60838 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60849 Support ACLs on more systems.
60857 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6086 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060877 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6088 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6089 (truncated to fit in the space).
60907 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60918 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60928 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6093 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060947 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006095 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60967 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6097 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060987 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060997 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
61007 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061018 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
61028 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6103 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6104 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6105 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
61068 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061078 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061088 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6109 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6110 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6111 does something like this. (Shah)
61127 Use growarray for replace stack.
61137 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6114 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
61153 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061167 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6117 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010061187 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6119 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6121- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6122- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6123- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
61247 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6125 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6126- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6127 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006128- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006129- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6130 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6131- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6132 call "play newbeep.au").
6133- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6134 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6135 (Bhatt).
6136- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6137 blockwise registers).
6138- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6139 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6140- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6141 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6142 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6143 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006144- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061457 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6146 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6147- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6148 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6149 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6150 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6151 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061528 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6153 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061548 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6155 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6156 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6157 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6158 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6159- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006160- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061617 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6162 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6163- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6164 not in column 1.
61656 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6166 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61677 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6168- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006169- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006170 :redir #> bufname
6171 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006172- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6173 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6175 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6176 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61776 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6178 console? (Klaus Hast)
6179- Add :delcr command:
6180 *:delcr*
6181 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6182 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6183 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6184 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6185 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006186 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006187- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6188- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6189 characters from 'isprint'.
6190- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6191- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6192 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6193- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6194 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6195 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6196- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6197- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6198 Nvi).
6199- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6200 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
62017 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6202- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6203 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
62046 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6205- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6206 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6207 macro).
6208- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6210 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6211- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
62128 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006213- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6214- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6215- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6216 if it is not the first or last window.
6217- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6218 there is one) instead of the file itself.
62197 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6220 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6221 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6222- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6223- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006224 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225 many percent down the windows).
6226- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6227 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6228 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006229 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6231 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6232- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6233 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6234- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6235- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6236- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6237 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062388 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6239 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6240 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6241 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6242 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006243- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6244 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6245- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006246 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6247- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6249 (Webb).
6250- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006251 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006252- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6253 hex codes like 0xff).
6254- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6255 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6256 the last TYPED command.
6257- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6258- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6259- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6260 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006261- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062628 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6263 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6264 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006265- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266 trailing '.'.
6267- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6268 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6269 find_file_in_path().
6270- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6271 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6272- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6273- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6274 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6275- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006276 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006277- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6278 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6279 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006280- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6281- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6282- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6283 to the minimal size.
6284- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6285- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6286- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6287- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6288- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006289- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6290 entered)?
6291- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6292 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006293- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006294- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6295- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6296- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6297- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6298- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6299 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006300- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063018 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6302 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6303 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6304 or in octal.
63057 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6306 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006307- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006308 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6309- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6310- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6311 insert line command).
6312- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6313- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6314- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6315- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6316- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6317 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006318- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006319 yet.
6320- Implement 'redraw' option.
6321- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6322 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063237 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6324 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006325 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6326 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063278 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6328 do it.
6329- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6330- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6331 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6332- Add text justification option.
6333- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6334- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6335 off".
6336- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6337- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6338- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006339 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006340- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006341- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006342- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6343 commands.
6344- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6345- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6346- :table command (Webb)
6347- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006348- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6349- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6350- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6351- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6352- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6353 (Demirel).
6354- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6355- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6356 for use in macro's and the like.
6357- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006358 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006359- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006360 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006361- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006362 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006363 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6364- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6365 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006366- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006367 mkopttab to make option table?
6368- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6369 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6370- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6371 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006372- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006373 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6374- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6375 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006376- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063778 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6378 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6379 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6380 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6381 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063828 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6383 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6384 (Netherton)
63856 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6386 space after "(", for example.
63875 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6388 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6389 (Servatius Brandt)
6390
6391
6392From Elvis:
6393- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6394- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006395- Search patterns:
6396 \@ match word under cursor.
6397 but do:
6398 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6399 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
64008 ":window" command:
6401 :win + next window (up)
6402 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6403 :win - previous window (down)
6404 :win -- idem, wrapping
6405 :win nr to window number "nr"
6406 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
64077 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6408 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6409
6410
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006411From xvi:
6412- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6413- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6414
6415
6416From vile:
6417- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6418- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6419 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6420
6421
6422Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006423- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6424 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006425 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006426 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6427 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006428- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6429 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6430- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6431 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6432 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6433 current layout mirrored.
6434- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6435- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6436 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6437- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6438- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6439 font in each top-level window.
6440- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6441- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6442- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6443- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6444 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006445- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6446 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6447- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6448 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64494 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6450 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6451 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6452 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006453 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006454 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6455 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6456- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6457 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6458 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6459
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006460vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006461vim: set fo+=n :